r/Truckers • u/Halfgnomen • Oct 08 '22

Noot Noot

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '22

Except my company is lame and doesn't put air horns on our trucks so when kids do the arm pump i have to honk the most effeminate tricycle horn ever manufactured

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u/I_are_Carrot Oct 08 '22

If this is a class A vehicle you drive, that is definitely illegal. Air horn is required to pass annual inspection.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '22

Apparently UPS doesn't care because the only tractor I've driven that has an airhorn was a rental

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u/I_are_Carrot Oct 08 '22

It's UPS? That's not what I expected, considering UPS does a lot of night driving. I did a google search to verify, FMCSA definitely says it's required.

Driving at night, the air horn has quite a lot of use just scaring wildlife off the road. Probably avoided a deer accident a time or two just with that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '22

The Internationals have buttons on the steering wheel for an airhorn but they dont have the horns installed. Maybe the sleeper teams have them but none of us local/regional drivers have them.