Caravan Courtesy..or lack of!!

Yup- it's a worry. I see so many 'sedans' with a caravan hooked up, the bum of the car sagging, and even low beam is pointing to the possums.
They may have not been on high beam- just badly set up headlights/ towing level???

Should have stood on the brakes and let them smash their lights on your rear bar... or pulled over and let them pass, and repayed them.
even better, wire up a reversing light with a switch on the dash.. make it a GOOD light, im going with a twin 55w Hella for a working/reversing/payback light.

Matt
Nice spot that Dongara ,
I guess it all comes down to education, or the lack of it , I have seen some Caravans and Motor homes do some stupid things .
One for instance , ( caravanners take note) is when another vehicle is catching up i.e Semi's, Roadtrains and other Vans they will wait until the following vehicle has caught up before pulling to the left to allow the traffic to pass, The Law is every 20klm you should pull over, but if you see a parking bay coming up and the ...Roadtrain is still half a K behind then pull in then , If you wait until until it is right up your rear then when you slow down almost to a stop it will cause the truck to almost stop too, I have had people do that when on coming traffic prevents you from overtaking, In other words a bit of common sense is needed, My old Troopy is slow and when a Truck catches up it is amazing just how some communication to the driver can be of great help when you tell him you know he is there and will pull up ASAP or at the pull off ahead , then he can adjust the distance to suit .

Doug

if only some knew how to drive
take your comment "when they get to my drivers door I always dip my lights"

wish people would learn that is a safety factor for the person who is about to overtake ...leave your high beam on so the passer can see in front of the passee while they are doing this ...really peeves me off when the dip back to low and your still behind them on low beam

Now I wish I could switch the spots on when they do that

Sad to say we live at a time when many motorists simply don't understand the operations of their vehicles. To say that motorists were ignorant and inconsiderant is probably understating the real problem. That being they probably didn't have a clue they had high beam let alone what the illuminated bright blue/green (or whatever colour) light meant. As to the operation of the high beam switch/activator - what's that? Same applies to motorists that get around with their low beam and fog lights on at the same time. Unecessary, inapprpriate, inconsiderant and downright dangerous for on-coming traffic. If you're one of them, get your finger out, use your noggin and think of others. You're a liability on our roads.

Hi Matt,
Great spot we were there over the weekend as well, bit smaller this year we stayed an extra night just got back its not just caravanas with out aa bit of the common, never ceases to amaze me and the missus, Still great weekend

Matt

So they where 4WDriving Caravaner's not just your run of the mill sedan wagon ford holden type of people..

now these TWO people where they in convoy? maybe EX roadtrain drives, just out showing the kids how it works... LOL

"These were two 4x4s one very dark (maroon) Hungy and the other was poo-green GU Patrol..."

"Its very easy to spot the lights on highbeam when your entire rear view mirror is a row of 4 lights!! "

Good to see (hear) you had a nice weekend anyways... :-)

Richard