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Originally Posted by mapuc

Except the light question.

I'm driving with High beam like we shall here in Denmark.
(but if this is not allowed according to real traffic law I would not use it)

Markus

Ahh my bad; the use of high-beams is governed by politeness more than law, which there are. Bearing in mind that a semi's headlights are higher than a auto's, avoiding blinding any oncoming driver or glaring some poor low car driver from the rear by his (three) mirrors is to be avoided. If there was no traffic on the long frigid sub-zero I-80 stretches across Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and Nebraska, where the lead driver does the driving instead of the newby codriver, just outta truck-school, the highbeams are very useful for catching retina reflections of bison, elk, moose, loose cattle, mustangs, antelope and deer-literallly in the headlights...in time to blast the air-horn to prompt them off the asphalt. 1200 lb.+ Moose hits are particularly bad on aluminum Freightliners at 70 mph...no 55 'bout it! Squirrels, raccoons, possums, rabbits, prairie dogs, feral cats, coyotes, armadillos,...and one sheepdog & a woodchuck are MINCE meat without an 80,000 lb. big-rig swerve's reprieve! On a given occasion, desperately needing water for an overheated radiator after a long climb up Parley's Pass, Utah in the truck lane, I could literally walk on the mouldering carpet of roadkill'd wildlife that had staggered off the lethal freeway(several seasons worth imho) down to a mountain stream 500 yards for a bucket of water!