Night Vision?

Maybe he needs brighter headlights, and/or better adjusted ones.

 

They do sell night vision goggles, but they are expensive. Not sure if they would be adaptable to driving.

http://www.atncorp.com/night-vision-goggles

 

Other than the reduced field of vision, I would be most worried about being blinded by oncoming headlights.

 

The best thing is to move from driving at night to driving at hours during the day if it can be done with the company he works for. This will be hard to do if its otr trucking. I was in a big truck when my eyes started to go bad, so I pulled into the first wall mart I could find and got my first pair of eyeglass ever. I did not like it but I can see at night now. A little extra sleep does wonders for night driving and you can buy things to put on the front of the truck to warn the animals.

 

For the $2,500 of the FLIR, I would rather invest in some better lighting.

It would be much cheaper, and I wouldn't have to keep taking my eyes off the road to look at a little night vision screen.

 

Wow they have come down in price a lot. The guys who plow roads around here were looking into a system similar to the FLIR system, with the exception that is was a heads up display, I think they were quoted between $7500 and $8000, (canadian) per unit.

 

Interior lights drastically reduce your night vision. Not to mention cause early fatigue. Dim your dash to were you can barely read it. Dim your CB. Dim your GPS and Satellite radio and any other night lights. Then watch the outside light up in front of your eyes. Reason being is interior lights make your pupils smaller.

There is really nothing you can do to dodge a deer. You swerve, you risk flipping. You slam on your brakes it might be unnecessary and you damage freight. Deer will dodge, stop and do all kinds of manuevers. It's impossible to read their minds even if you see them earlier. It best to hold course and nail them if so be. Hitting a deer is alot cheaper than a totalled truck or funeral expenses. Deer run in herds. They'll sit in the wood line waiting for the right or wrong moment. One will cross and shortly more will follow. Alot of times deer will graze on the green grass on the shoulder and those are no threat at all.

If I can spot them with my poor eyes, anyone can. In my years of driving I never hit one. I had two close calls. Right now more deer stir as the bucks go in rut. A buck will stay in about 1 square mile and that's his domain. Rut season he'll urinate everywhere and the woman come running. That's when the roads are more dangerous as them woman have one thing on their minds. I tried that once in the yard but it didn't work!

Maybe consider one of them road kill bumpers. They do a good job.

 

I could just imagine some goofball rolling down his window for a cop with a pair of those night vision goggles on!