Do you do it■■?
If so why■■?
Does it stem from years ago??
You don’t wave to another UK truck whilst driving in the UK so why do it when your over the water.
Just curious…
it must be a euro trucker thing
It’s been that way for as long as I can remember 
I suppose it’s just a cheery greeting to a fellow brit traveler, possibly started before CB’s ■■?
Its a bit gay…
When I started out it was just the done thing.
A bit like seeking out the next Brit on the parking for a chat/beer.
I can even remember when seeing a uk reg on the side of the road was all the signal you’d need to pull over and check everything was ok.
So I suppose giving a wave is the last remnant of a better age for uk based euro drivers.
I do it. I thinks it’s more habit now than anything.
I don’t do it along the corridor as you’d be waving like a nutcase.
But with so many foreigners driving UK and Irish lorries now, There’s not much point.
There are some places that you’ll come across the usual faces. It’s not like it was though.
When you are out on the road in Europe for long period and you may not able to see any Brit lorries in Europe for few days or more if you lucky to spot them!
You will see Brit lorry pass and give you smile! “Ah that’s my home country” or “Where have you been!” It’s natural reaction 
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of corridor work and its weird seeing guys waving at you,far flung places fair enough but channel hopping to me seems strange…
Oh and for the record I don’t wave back cos to me it seems your waving at the truck and not the driver as I don’t know you so it seems weird to me to wave to someone you don’t know.
Personnel preferences and what not…
On long haul work it’s still a case that most Brits will pull in for a brew or a chat or walk across a truck park to say hello, I guess when you’ve spent three weeks without hearing an English voice apart from the gaffer or the wife on the phone giving you Grief it’s good to hear.
Nobody says you have to do it, but we are a dying breed and it’s nice sometimes for someone to Come say hello…call me old fashioned…
I would usually give a flash or a wave when seeing another Brit when over the water. Don’t know why really but then again why not?. We all spent time on our own so it does no harm.
As for seeking out a fellow Brit then as has been said after a few days of battling with a foreign tongue it could be good to have a chat with one of your own.
I’ve also noticed it does happen in the UK with other drivers on similar work. It was especially noticeable when pulling a low loader that others would give you a flash of the lights or wave.
I spent a short while double manning to Gibraltar in the late 90s and one of the things we used to do to pass the time was play at “spot the Brit”. I used to wipe the floor with my 2nd man and he could never work out how. Simple really, in the days before more mirrors than a mods Vespa you could always spot a Brit motor by the configuration of one mirror RH side and 2 on the LH side.
Cheers
Neilf
Most guys in the removal industry will stick their hand up to each other even in this country, so I would imagine most removalmen abroad would stick their hand up to an English motor. Its something I have always done but not really thought much about it!
Cheggy:
Its a bit gay…
Murfitts nearly always did it 
Some wave at me but I never wave first as I am shy
Easter-Star:
Some wave at me but I never wave first as I am shy
Lol
When I used to go with my dad as a child it was the done thing to wave at other British trucks, even Irish trucks and I can remember more than once being parked in Germany with him and another British or Irish truck being nearby and within minutes the driver would be over for a chat and we’d wonder off in to the town for something to eat. When I started driving to Europe in 2006 it had become so rare to see another British truck that 99% of the time it was too late to wave by the time I’d realised.
Here in Canada, in many places all truck drivers will give a friendly wave on a single track road, I dont know why, its just what they do, a professional courtesey I suppose and now I do the same. Its the same in many places in the US, especially in the more traditional rural states when you meet a truck coming the other way on a two lane road.
I might not know these other drivers I’m passing, they may not even be from the same province but I thoroughly enjoy and revel in the camaraderie that is all but gone in the UK/Europe and where the selfish only out for ones self attitude has taken over. In Canada if you’re broken down within seconds you’ll have driver after driver hollering over the CB to ask if you’re alright or need help with anything.
Comraderie died in uk the day they invented the cell phone.
spot on in what you say Robinhood…i broke down on hwy16 after running over bambi not long after coming over ,and near every truck passing stopped /slowed right down to offer help.
and as ya say a trucks on the side of the road ,most folk give a shout on the box to ask if youre ok. and as happened to me ,a,flat battery by the time i had the battery box open a truck was along side offering a jump.
lol …yup out here in the sticks everyone waves at each other …took a bit o getting used to but when in Rome etc. jimmy.
I always used to give a wave, now I have bought a Smart car I have to do it all over again as they all wave to each other.
kerbut:
I always used to give a wave, now I have bought a Smart car I have to do it all over again as they all wave to each other.
m old man drove reliants for years ,everyone waved and if you stopped and had need to open the bonnet lid,you could guarantee someone would stop to help. he moved on to 4 wheelers and the cameradie was the thing he missed most
limeyphil:
I do it. I thinks it’s more habit now than anything.
I don’t do it along the corridor as you’d be waving like a nutcase.
But with so many foreigners driving UK and Irish lorries now, There’s not much point.
There are some places that you’ll come across the usual faces. It’s not like it was though.
If I spot a Brit motor in time I’ll give a flash of my lights and put a hand up too.
Like Phil, not on the corridor, there’s too many.
It’s just something that’s always been done.