Night driving vs day time ?

Night driving local work is easier, Long story short: Pulling on to a very busy road way has it's perks. Not only can see headlights and obviously less traffic.

Night has it's downside, The obvious backing up / the drunks / suicide animals and in the heavy rain forward driving ( nothing is easy to see ) and really nothing is open after 11pm.

Don't care what shift i work, Whatever pays the dang bills.

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Agreed...but I haul a lot of food/reefer and that is the nature of business. A big thumbs up on the parking/scales/cops thing too Rhino...much agree. I know some people are probably going to be annoyed that I'm saying this, but with the whole "Obamacare" thing, I have optical care for pretty much nothing now. I now get new glasses every two years with a $35 copay and last fall I got lasik surgery on my eyes that brought them almost back to where they were 30 yrs. ago which was mostly paid by my insurance carrier. That really helped me to get back to night driving. I had it done last Labor Day weekend and took a weekend and a paid holiday. They did the procedure on Friday morning and by Tuesday morning I was back on the road.

 

I had not thought that lasik would improve my night vision. That is good to know as I have noticed that my night vision is terrible now. I have to have a fog line or my brights have to be on.

 

I Like night driving because of less DOT inspections if any at all. Traffic is low. Lights are green. Truck runs cooler with less temptures

 

I recommend it. If you have insurance that will help you pay for it...take advantage of it. And here's something on a purely personal note and observation. If I owned a business that was dedicated to moving freight or people around our country and roads...I would go out of my way to make sure that my drivers can see. That's just good business.

 

Huge difference...HUGE DIFFERENCE! By law, my CDL is still listed as needing prescription eye care, but I drive now with bifocal lenses... a "no script" top lenses and a +250 reading script for looking at gauges.

 

Night versus Day driving is a great topic, but for many folks we don't have much say in the matter... especially when running OTR for a mega company. Although both options have their own + and -, the fatal accident rate for truck drivers does seem to be much higher during those late night/early morning hours (i.e, 11pm - 5am)... but we clearly need to be on-our-toes 24/7.

 

I drive during the night when the load permits. I'm a night owl.

 

If I could I would never drive during the day. Just yesterday it took me all 10 hours to go from Philly to just north of the North Carolina line. Traffic was horrible. I do that at night and I probably never hit the brakes. But I'm thankful that most drive during the day.

 

Absolutely, lasik is the best thing since sliced bread. I had mine done in '96, and I'm still 20-20 overall, I just need reading glasses nowadays.

A hint for night drivers: turn down your instrument panel lights as dim as you can, that alone can improve your night vision enough to make night driving bearable.