Eyeglasses for DOT physcial

Who really should wear glasses to drive (see distant) but would also not have a pair of Rx sunglasses? I would have said the sunglasses are Rx and make the cop prove they're not.

 

In a pinch you can put on your reading glasses, if you have some and your others are broken

 

Not for those who need them to read distant text. Reading glasses would make it harder for me and others with near-sightedness (myopia) to see well at distance.

 

I'm not talking for the eye exam....

If you lost your glasses out on the road and didn't have a spare set I would be using reading glasses to try and get by if I got stopped.

 

i would also get a pair of prescription sunglasses.

 

The only reason I would be able to make use of reading glasses is if I were wearing corrective contact lenses [to help me see far] and then needed to read a book or map

 

Certainly. I wore glasses all my life. Big giant birth control coke bottle bottoms too. Passing the vision chart or whatever they call that test is not a problem.

I never go to a basic walmart type eye vision doctor. I go to eye surgeons not only to get a updated prescription but also to examine the retinas and eyeball contents plus blood etc for any possibility of health issues pending.

The only time that got stopped was in 2009 when a lens in one eye formed a cataract killing the entire vision except light in that one. Surgery dropped in a artificial lens and put a no lines trifocal prescription on me with certain upgrades to the new glasses which at that time made them expensive. However it's cheap when you consider the 18000 dollar cost of that one surgery alone. It's worth it to me. (I was double insured that year, so it was totally free. Im also double insured now so if the other eye throws one we fix too)

Driving was not a problem. You can drive a car in Arkansas with a CDL that is grandfathered on Tier two without any medical card attached to it at all. On one eye if you had to. I carried my CDL until about 2013-2014 roughly turned it in for a basic car license for a variety of medical and medicine related reasons later.

The one impact of aging is I am going up from a 24 inch monitor to a 32 inch 4k monitor soon. And I had to drop shotgunning due to retina tears. (Those are true medical emergencies requiring a laser burn them back in place within 4 hours from the recoil of the #### things) its a shame, I was a very good slugger. 30 yards each slug goes through the same as the first.

 

Agreed. And a pair of plain Rx for the emergency spare

 

I can't see at a distance, either. I can see fine what's close up. My sunglasses are Rx also because they have to be. Contacts and me just don't mesh well.