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My 2003 Grand Cherokee

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Is it just Me or...

by Jim Duarte

I have been silently (sometimes not) putting up with this for years. However, during our first winter storm the other day, it reached critical mass. The inability or refusal of drivers to use their directional lights is becoming a virus! The other day, I was on my way to work in slippery conditions and making the transition from an Interstate Highway onto a State Highway. I was in a line of about 10 cars taking that ramp and eighth in line. Not one of the seven vehicles in front of me nor the two vehicles behind me, had a directional on! I thought to myself "I guess they are all using my directional to let anyone else know where we are collectively going as a group?"

Am I the only one who notices this? It happens on the highway, in the city and even in rural driving. On the left side of our steering columns, there's a lever. The lever is generally, well within reach of our left hands. In most cases, it can even be actuated with a single finger! It's called the directional switch. We're supposed to use it when changing lanes on the highway or making a turn anywhere. In some cases, I admit, it's because the offending driver has a cell phone in their left hand stuck to their left ear. It's obviously too far to reach that directional lever - God forbid, you put the phone down for a couple of seconds! Of course, that's another a story in itself! That's it for now... just venting! Thoughts... email us!

Next up... "Running Yellow, now Red lights - another rapidly expanding VIRUS! Someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed one of these days"

* Jim Duarte interviewed by Truck Camper Magazine! *

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