I drive with my fog lights on at all times ...

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by plankton, Sep 11, 2018.

  1. LoSt_AgAiN

    LoSt_AgAiN Heavy Load Member

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    What’s with the off-road light bars all these ppl are putting in their trucks?
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    No insurance, can’t afford to get their cataracts removed?
     
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    True fog lights are amber, orange or yellowed to cut the fog. Road lamps are white. As someone who runs LED road lamps all the time at night, in addition to regular headlights, they do serve a purpose when aimed properly, they can fill in the gap between headlights and the front of the vehicle, the right side should be angled out slightly to catch low level things. I keep mine aimed so they both are aimed slightly outboard. 90% of the time, I never get flashed by another driver, but if I do, then I'll turn them off. I do realize that some people's eyes are more sensitive to the light of LED, hence why so many elderly complain about HID and LED headlights. As for the LED bulbs in non-projector housings. Yep, I have them too, company installed them in most of the trucks. Do they work, yep, am I constantly playing with the adjustment to stop from blinding people, yep. Every few days I find I adjust my headlights down a notch or two. In the last three weeks, I've not heard a complaint on the CB about them, and given the amount of time I spend on 2 lanes, I used to hear a lot of complaints, so I'm guessing I've got them about right.
     
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    Like jacked up pick up trucks...compensating or trying to. To make up for size difference in other places...height or ...

    Always better to blind everyone around you, makes it safer for every one.....

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    Worked with a guy who would drive with headlights and foglights on all the time. Day, night, didn't matter. He said it was safer to do that.
    Same guy got busted on the Indiana Toll road for doing 87 in a 60. Safety First!
     
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    In the brush and the crack of dawn on back roads we'd run a ditch (spot) light for timber tigers. Those Elk are hard on radiators.
     
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    depends are you driving a truck or a boat?
     
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    Only if you wear the black driver gloves.
     
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    No but it makes you an idiot
     
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    Heck most can't even adjust their own headlights. Probably complain the lights are no good, when actually they are aimed up in the trees. Wonder if walking with a flashlight they aim it up in the air then stumble and fall, then cuss out that stupid flashlight?
     
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