Eye Glasses

Why wouldn't you want a spare? Can you see ok without them to make it to the nearest 1 hour optical shop?

 

I think I would require myself to have a backup set.

 

Better to be safe than sorry on this one. Hopefully nothing happens, but you would be S.O.L if you did not have backup.

 

Take your old ones last prescription

 

DOT regs don't require it but it is a Best Practice to at least have a pair of full size readers like you buy at the Dollar General or Drug Store. If you're DOT medical card or driver license says you have to have vision correction, and your glasses break or you forget them or can't show the officer you have contacts during a DOT inspection then he will place YOU (not the truck) Out Of Service and you can't drive until you get vision correction. Plus, if he saw you driving without glasses, inspected you and you had glasses (even the readers to fool him, and don't have contacts or evidence that you had corrective surgery and just haven't updated your license and or medical card to have the vision correction removed yet: he'll write you a DOT Inspection Violation for having to have vision correction but not using it when driving. Won't place you OOS for it as long as you have the glasses or contacts to put back on or in - but it'll be a big point violation on your CSA score. Being able to see clearly is kinda important driving the truck. It really helps on SO many levels, including not running over crazy four wheelers. It's the whole judging distance and space thing. Comes in real handy reading signs too. LOL. I'm not being judgmental (a bit of a Smart Alec - yes, judging you - no). I have the same problem. My glasses cost $500 so I can't afford a second pair. They are on their last leg and so scratched up that night driving is a challenge. I can see, but the glare from the light diffusing in the scratches and coating degradation from oncoming traffic makes it difficult. It's kinda like driving in fog. You can see but visibility is limited so you slow down. I get where you're coming from. I'm lucky. My benefits with this company just came in. I got my vision card so I can now afford to get a new prescription and a spare pair. The new plan is really so much better than my old one. Got an appointment with the eye Dr. and the money for the glasses now. Do yourself a BIG favor. Keep your script current and keep a spare pair. TRUST me on that one. And if you can't then keep a pair of readers that look like regular glasses on and don't drive on "close enough" unless you absolutely have to. Then treat it like thick fog. Move slowly to a safe haven. I know the Safety Patrol will slam me and they are not wrong. But there's perfect world and reality. They are rarely the same. But you do what you can and minimize risk and fix the problem ASAP. It's the real world.

 

I've always operated under the notion that you had to have a spare. I need them to drive (to see far clearly) Regardless, if corrective lens requirement is on your license, and you for whatever reason don't have them, you are "illegal" to operate a motor vehicle the way I understand it.

I can't imagine being far away from home without a spare. Things happen. Even if you have to use your last old prescription that are all scratched up, they will do fine as a backup pair.

 

I found Zenni Optical .com a low cost place to buy extra set of glasses for me 7$ a pair + shipping and I now can read road signs.