This makes no sense at all. Why would large vehicle drivers do that? It's the job of the people behind them to patiently stay behind and make their own decision on when it's safe to pass.
This is why we have the mantra "don't be nice, be predictable". Being nice and letting people through out of turn makes it dangerous for everyone.
Road trains are fucking massive. They take a long time to pass even if you break the speed limit by 20 km/h, and they obscure your view of the road quite substantially. It's near impossible for a driver to safely pass a road train without the truckie's assistance on some roads. The fact that drivers mostly know truckies will do this means they are less likely to attempt an unsafe overtake which could endanger both them and the truckie.
The article is about a agricultural spraying tractor. Those aren't long and don't drive long distances.
Yes, but the comment I was replying to was talking more generally about the unwritten rule of the right blinker meaning "it's safe to pass".
On country roads it is a lot less stressful for you and the trucker if you have a cb radio. You don't need a massive areal and all wired in, just a little handheld for to communicate to a truck in front or behind.
Say you're towing a caravan at 90kmh. You can just say to the truck behind "white land cruiser and van to linfox truck, I'm slow, in 3km there's a overtaking area I'll let you go around."
Every car in every country should come with a handheld CB radio.
I don't say this because I want it to help, I say this because I want it to sound like a modern warfare 2 (original) lobby.
Get on uhf40 at the top of the gateway bridge in Brisbane, you can hear every whinging/gossiping truckie in the city all at once haha.
Calling other people's mothers whores might lead to road rage though.
Eh. They were gonna get road rage anyway. Just make cars built like giant bumper cars.
I live in an area in regional Victoria where you’ll get behind one of these guys for a 5-10km stretch.
And I grew up in regional NSW where it could be more like 15-20km.
If you’re on the asphalt you overtake if you can see it’s safe to do so as usual, or if the operator can clearly gesture to you, unmistakably, with a hand signal that it’s safe to go around.
I’ve never heard of the right turn signal thing.
I’ve seen it a few times when travelling. I think that the best way for a slow vehicle to indicate that it is safe to overtake is to indicate left (near-side, passenger-side, kerb/shoulder-side, whatever) and merge onto the shoulder. This is what the majority of tractors do in my local region.
This provides those following better visibility of the road ahead and allows them to make up their own mind.
Also, those following, just be patient. The only reason why the tractor would be deliberately driving slow to annoy you is because you a being a dickhead. Don’t be a dickhead on the road.
I'm in rural sa and many trucks will indicate to let the person behind know it's clear, especially over a crest.
For crying out loud, never ever ever do this, god, if there is a crest then you can't even see once you pull out. Don't do it.
I've seen it a lot, mostly by road trains on the Nullarbor, and we would wait for them to stop indicating. It's just a brief signal, one or two flashes and then you're safe to check if it's safe.
I swear this is like the third time I've seen an article with almost this exact (OG) title, spaced like 6 months apart. And I'm currently feeling absolutely crazy for my inability to find those articles.
Just gonna say, ive said thanks out loud in the car and given the truck the thumbs up after he just gave one or two clicks of the right-hand blinker saying we could pass (after being on their arse for a few kms). Multiple times.
But if it was stuck on and still blinking then I would not pass.
Just saying.. Cos they're not gonna write an article like this and it not existing.
Why would you not use your hazards? Using just one indicator really does seem insane...
What would hazards mean in this case? A hazard?
Two blinks of blinker is Imitating what you would do before you swoop out to pass..so least it makes sense.
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