Thumbs up for technology
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ahere are times when even the best-mannered knight of the road must frel tempted to express his views on the driving skills of the XR3 sky pilot who's just taken a year's wear out of his brakes and bires, and left the poor old truckle with sweating palms and palpitations For these occasions our verbal and visual communication skills are rarely left wanting But what do you do when another motorist has actually shown above-average skill or courtesy?
Between themselves, of course, truck drivers are adept at communicating, be it with light flashes or Ow words on the CI3. But Truckers Talk Lighting of Bacup, Lancs has come up with a way to express thanks to even the least streetwise car jockeys. The device is no more than a red light in the shape of a fist giving the universally understood thumbs 4t Truckers Talk has sent me a sample, which I wilipass on to the reader who can come up with the most useful gestures or messages they'd like to see in lights