Do you waive at other motorhomes?

[lostagain]

I've pretty well given up waiving at motorhomes. Most of them don't waive back. Sometimes, I'll waive at a class A, but seldom get an answer. I think they are too tense driving it to take a hand off the wheel, or they are snoozing, or are too snobby to acknowledge an old bus. Of course meeting another conversion is an occasion for flashing lights, air horn, wiggling of the wheel, fire works, etc. Some times you don't get an answer from a Prevost (just kidding).

When I drove bus in the '70s, when you saw a bus coming, any bus, you flashed you lights and waived. Now you only waive at a bus from the same company. Same in trucking: there is no waiving hardly anymore. Too many trucks on the road to be waiving at them all.

I do get a waive occasionally from a trucker. I guess they appreciate an old bus.

It seems the only people that waive at each other anymore are bikers.

Maybe the reason is that everybody feels like me: they don't miss waiving like used to be done, so fewer people waive. I guess RVing is not an uncommon activity, there are millions of RVs, you can't be waiving at them all...

JC

[bobofthenorth]

It's pedantic of me JC but perhaps drivers are waiving waving.

R.J. (Bob) Evans

[Lin]

I never really knew that we were supposed to waive at RV's.  When I was told, I tried doing it at Quartzite and hurt my arm so I stopped.

[luvrbus]

Bus owners usually flash their light at each other if they find the switch fast enough,the Prevost crowd not so much I think that is because most are entertainer drivers

[harleyman_1000]

Depends if she is topless

[DoubleEagle]

Bus owners usually flash their light at each other if they find the switch fast enough,the Prevost crowd not so much I think that is because most are entertainer drivers

I think in the case of Prevost Entertainer drivers, their preference is to not mix with the bus rabble unless they think it is a million dollar coach (or more) that might hire them someday. They prefer to see if their air wake can blow you off the road as they pass by. If it is an older driver with fond memories of Eagles in their glory days, then they might wave to an Eagle, but the others.... 

[pabusnut]

When I first picked up my bus in Minnesota, it still looked like a coach, and some bus drivers gave me the one finger wave(index finger --not the other one!) when I passed.  I did  the index finger wave the other day when an older gentleman driving a charter coach passed, and he waved back.  Subtle--not like the nearly blind biker wave where you drop your left hand!

I never wave at motorhomes, I don't want to distract those drivers.

[lostagain]

Hey Bob, good catch on my spelling mistake! And good play on words!

I see this is already drawing some humorous replies,  great.

JC

[oltrunt]

My little bus sort of looks like a cartoon character driving down the highway.. Dogs chase it, toothless homeless render a thumbs up, truckers creep along side toot and wave and roll on, bikers drop a hand but by far the most disconcerting are the motor home drivers who pull along side honking their horn and waving while they lean across the passenger seat  phone camera in hand

After about the first hundred miles I get used to it and quit looking after every encounter for an alligator I might have tossed or a missing toad or whatever.  Wolf, wolf and all that---I hope.  Jack

[bigred]

When helping a trucker get back in line after passing my slow but ,they kind off act surprised that someone on a bus/mh knows the sequence of how to do this!!

[Jon]

In 90 when we got our first Prevost a motorhome conversion was a rare thing and we spent a lot of time on the CB talking to truckers who were curious, watching people in cars swivel their heads as they went by expecting to see Garth Brooks at the wheel and commercial seated coach drivers waving or flashing their lights.

Today we get the finger from truckers, people in cars ignore us and even other Prevost conversions don't bother to wave.

I won't wave at a conventional motor home. I am so stuck up I won't even talk to myself.

[luvrbus]

In 90 when we got our first Prevost a motorhome conversion was a rare thing and we spent a lot of time on the CB talking to truckers who were curious, watching people in cars swivel their heads as they went by expecting to see Garth Brooks at the wheel and commercial seated coach drivers waving or flashing their lights.

Today we get the finger from truckers, people in cars ignore us and even other Prevost conversions don't bother to wave.

I won't wave at a conventional motor home. I am so stuck up I won't even talk to myself.

LOL I have meet a bunch of good people driving Prevost over the years some are still good friends,then I have also meet a lot of Richard Heads driving Prevost but on the whole they are a good bunch of people, especially the ones that drink beer from a can or bottle 

[bigred]

We get people all the time who want to check our old Prevost out.We have even had people wanting to know if it would be alright to take a picture or would I take a pic of them standing beside or in front of our bus. Of course being the proud Papa that I am ,i am always happy to oblige

[DoubleEagle]

Maybe we need a secret acknowledgement of each other known only to members of this board, like a thumbs up, or something. The peace sign was popular in the 60's and early 70's to acknowledge acceptance and general coolness. Hey, we are cool!

[Dave5Cs]

We Jeep people give the Fingers V-ed signs as it has always been when you see another Jeep( standard Jeep not grand Cherokees, etc. No offense we just don't). Have found when towing with the Jeep toed on other RVers towing one give me the same sign also, so I have started that also.
Dave5Cs