Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
Fess up
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="AKCoverMan" data-source="post: 1118819" data-attributes="member: 17867"><p>I sometimes have a problem with the 4ways not out of forgetting to use them but having them be on when I think they are off or vice versa.</p><p></p><p>We have a number of cars where the turn signal indicators sit right behind the steering wheel and there is no sound made by the signals. The switch for the 4ways is the push button on top of the steering column behind the wheel itself so awkward to get at. Apparantly the people who design these things actually thought we would only need the 4ways in an emergency not like 200 times a day!</p><p></p><p>Anyway this switch is the kind where if you don't press it down just right it dosn't "take" so now you think you have turned on the 4ways when you have not. The turn signal indicators are dead in line behind the top of the steering wheel and the turn signals have no sound so it is easy to miss this. You end up either with no 4ways on at the stop or with the 4ways on while riding down the road. Ticks me off when I catch myself doing it.</p><p></p><p>I have brought this up as a saftey issue but have been told D.O.T. only requires visible OR audible indication of the signals. Technically it is visible if I lean way forward or scrunch down. But I think I would be 100% if I could hear that the 4ways were on or off. My thought is why do we only need to meet the D.O.T. minimum? </p><p></p><p>However I do get that I am the cover driver and if it's a bid driver's regular car and he/she does not want audio then so be it. My pet peeve is the stupid alarm telling me my headlights are still on while I am DRing a package. Annoying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AKCoverMan, post: 1118819, member: 17867"] I sometimes have a problem with the 4ways not out of forgetting to use them but having them be on when I think they are off or vice versa. We have a number of cars where the turn signal indicators sit right behind the steering wheel and there is no sound made by the signals. The switch for the 4ways is the push button on top of the steering column behind the wheel itself so awkward to get at. Apparantly the people who design these things actually thought we would only need the 4ways in an emergency not like 200 times a day! Anyway this switch is the kind where if you don't press it down just right it dosn't "take" so now you think you have turned on the 4ways when you have not. The turn signal indicators are dead in line behind the top of the steering wheel and the turn signals have no sound so it is easy to miss this. You end up either with no 4ways on at the stop or with the 4ways on while riding down the road. Ticks me off when I catch myself doing it. I have brought this up as a saftey issue but have been told D.O.T. only requires visible OR audible indication of the signals. Technically it is visible if I lean way forward or scrunch down. But I think I would be 100% if I could hear that the 4ways were on or off. My thought is why do we only need to meet the D.O.T. minimum? However I do get that I am the cover driver and if it's a bid driver's regular car and he/she does not want audio then so be it. My pet peeve is the stupid alarm telling me my headlights are still on while I am DRing a package. Annoying. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
Fess up
Top