Fog Light Etiquette

personally heres the deal i hate them i have them and then some i hate people that think they cant live without them especially the jeep drivers that dont care and dont realize that their suspensions are soft and the whole vehicle lumbers backward while runnin 70 mph down the road and they shine right in our eyes..

i will bright light a person who lacks the responsibility to adjust their lights if they are hauling or running their fogs and burning every light on their truck..

i will start by a nice bright light then if it dont change and i cant see i promise you i will see... the next step is a bright with fogs on.. still no response i leave them on .... then stilll no response the 4 driving lights com on ... i can see thennnn... and i will gaurentee they cant.. and if im feeling vendictive i will crank on my deer lights too which face out of the sides of my truck those really get people slammin on their brakes and all the time they are so self centered they cant figure out what they done wrong dumb #####..

korn blind...... google it..

 

I don't run my fog lights unless there's fog or snow. I find them to be a distractio
n in rain and I know how blinding they are to me reflecting off a wet road. Well, okay, I ran them for about 20 minutes earlier. I blew a headlight about midway between Eugene and Sutherlin. Had to stop at that Pilot in Rice Hill to get another light. In the mean time, I am required to have at least 2 forward facing clear lights. So, I flipped on my fogs until I could get to the truck stop.

 

During my training with the mentor, he didn't want me to use the fog lights while I was driving, however when he drove he used them all the time. When I drove he didn't want me to flash to pass- said I was flipping switch too slowly thereby burning out his headlights so I stopped doing it. When he drove he would flip the switch 20 times as fast as he could- (my opinion, that's bad for the filament) his driver's side headlight burned out, his passenger side fog light burned out, and his middle ID light burned out, (on a side note, his windshield wipers rotated over the wrong way and stayed that way once in the rain). He was always having issues with these lights and replacing them (bulbs). I told him not to touch the bulbs with his fingers, use a paper towel to install them and even perhaps clean the bulbs with rubbing alcohol to remove greasy fingerprints, he just looked at me like I was from outer space.... His solution to temporarily fix the burned out driver's side headlight? Run highbeams and smear a thin layer of mud on the head lights lol. True redneck trucking....

 

No offense, but keep the #### things off please!!!

I've had driving lights on both 4-wheelers and big trucks.

The only time I ever used them was in fog or snow, and only in the daytime so others could better see me. At night the glare affects my visibility too much. Running without them on in those conditions is actually safer IMO.

I thought that Swift required their drivers to run the driving lights with as many of their trucks I see with 'em on.

 

I have no problem with auxilary driving lights, if they are aimed properly. Headlights should be aimed properly too. There are too many #### deer running around right now and we need everything we can get from our headlights...

 

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I saw a comment in here about fog lights on with high beams on.
This is a poor wiring job, since the regulations say that you cannot use fog lights with high beams on.
All newer cars and trucks are wired this way. If you run high beams and fog lights together you can get a ticket.
If you read the directions that come with any set of fog lights they will tell you how to wire them so that they are only on when the low beams are on.

 

Agreed. When I'm doing the pretrip and checking the lights, low beams on with fog lights then engage high beams, fog lights go off. That makes sense because we are taught that driving in fog one would not be using high beams as they are reflected back at the driver, blinding him/her.

 

I saw a comment about the chevys being bad. The 05 silverado I drive has the "fog lights" I prefer to call them driving lights. They are adjusted slightly down and sideways to see the side of the road. I must say they are bright as all heck.

I don't run them on the interstate if there is enough traffic around as I can use their headlights to see far enough ahead of me for deer and such. But I do run them alot and it has helped me see alot of deer on the roads.

My freightshaker doesn't have driving lights and I really had no reason to put a set on it. The headlights bounce enough on their own to see all around you everytime I hit a bump. LOL Before anyone comes on and starts yelling about fixing the loose headlights because it is so irritating to have a loose headlight in your mirror. That was a joke.