Window shade?

I buy sheets of inexpensive black posterboard at Walmart and cut a slice about 6 inches wide to block the sun on the portion of the drivers window that my visor doesn't cover. I wedge it in when the sun is shining on my face. Slides out EZ when I roll through the scales.

Posterboard is also good for a sleeper berth window cover if I ever get into a truck without curtains.

 

My pickup came with tint. I hate it. It's not dark but dark enough to be harder to see at night.

There's been a couple times I almost ran in to someone at the plant cuz you don't see them till they get in to your headlines.

Of course. Why they keep walking in to the path of a rolling vehicle is beyond me.

 

I bought ceramic tint all the way around including front windshield of my pickup and it’s a game changer. The front windshield is 95%. You cannot tell it’s tinted at all. But in direct sunlight you feel zero heat. I plan to do it to my work truck soon.

I always get the sun on my arm and eyes so I usually just take a piece of paper and jam it in the top seal of the windshield to hold it.

 

If he’d driven a 359 both sides would match.

 

No electric signal interference
You may know if you have driven a metallic-tinted car before. The metallic tints disadvantage is it interrupt your radio and cell phone signals. Metallic tint made with tiny particles of metal which cases they block the signals.

When it comes to ceramic tint, it doesn’t act like this. Be free about these problems. You can play your car radio and make cell phone calls without any problems that cause tint.

 

In that case, metallic tint should be mandatory on four-wheelers. The only exception will be for CDL drivers and their spouses.

 

I don't have a problem with people putting up see-through sunshades, but those who drive with the curtain pulled forward should be ticketed.

Also, reading this thread gives me one more reason to be thankful that I drive at night.

 

Can you recommend a truck driver, driver side window shade?
My face and arm can't take any more of this.

I don't want to get ticketed though.
What do I buy?

 

I use a spring loaded roll-up shade. I bought it at Walmart, but any auto parts store should have it. I roll it up when crossing the scales. Works fine. Wish I'd known about it years earlier, because the sun caused eye problems in my left eye, which was corrected with surgery.
Get the one with hooks on the top, like in the photo, not the suction cups.

 

I have multiple pictures and dash cam of foreign drivers with driver side and passenger side windows covered with their curtain, leaving a couple inches in the front to see Their mirrors

I had one in Chicago that I have a photo of the tried coming into my lane. Of course, he could not see me

I knew that he was a foreign driver because I honked the horn and he was kind enough To open his curtains like he was looking out of his bedroom window

I can’t think of anything more illegal than driving like this and I see 20 trucks a day doing this and I noticed a pattern it’s always foreign drivers

I don’t know where the police are but in the 80s and 90s we probably would’ve got beaten up by the DOT or the state police for pulling that crap

I also have photos and dash cam footage of a foreigner with both feet on the dash not 1 foot but both feet

The last few fatalities that made national news, it was said that they did not even show signs of trying to break before plowing into a bunch of civilians. That’s probably because it’s hard to hit the brakes when your feet are up on the dash

39 years of driving truck hauling every type of load in every type of equipment from steel dry vain OTR To switching for five years hauled fuel Gravel, trains, doubles and triples for UPS manufactured homes oversize loads B trains

My point is that I’ve been doing this a long time and I Taking being a professional, American truck driver very seriously

Where are the police? Where is the DOT and I know the police can see what I’m seeing And I know these drivers cannot see anybody to the left or right so sneaking up on them is not a problem so where are the police

I have a tripod between my seats with a nice camera mounted and I can swivel it in any direction with my right hand while watching the road I just push a button that way I’m not putting one at risk while getting these photos, but it will not let me upload any of them I have these guys with their feet up on the dash too.