Having a SENIOR moment

free radical wrote:
tomman58 wrote:

The first one is the person that refuses to put on his headlights at dusk or in the rain.
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They must be driving some antique vehicles.

Most new cars,trucks have Automatic headlights that turn on soon as you start driving.

In all my born put-togethers I have never driven any vehicle that the headlights would come on automatically. Now the one I have now, if I shut engine off before lights the lights stay on long enough for me to get in house. But I learned to drive when many vehicles had 5 controls on the floor worked with 2 feet, and another worked by hand. Nobody in my tax bracket had a automatic transmission. People learned to drive, or did not drive.

As far as moving from right lane over to the left to let someone merge onto the highway,
I was told by my safety trucking colege instructor absolutely not,first driving big rig you should stay in right slow lane.
Especialy if you need to exit the road soon !

Never went to trucking collage but I had a CDL tester in the truck with me, (not a test, hauling for her brother when she called him with broke down car). I saw a loaded lowboy making a turn to start up the ramp about half mile ahead. I checked my mirror, changed CB channel, keyed up called the company name, and told the driver to get after it, when you get to the top the right lane will be all yours. When I got to the merge point I was in the left lane, rolling about 10 MPH faster than the lowboy. Little miss Tester said "You are not supposed to do that" I explained that at 100,000 lbs that truck could not change speed quickly, and coming up the ramp, hard to see traffic. Rules can not override judgement.

If anything slow down and let them merge,its their problem to merge safely.

If both can see each other, much better to hold your speed. If I'm planning to drop in behind you, and you slow, now I'm going too fast. I can slow, but the space behind you is getting smaller.