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Is it important to fix a burned out headlight?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by A Bug, Sep 15, 2015.

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  1. Sep 15, 2015 #1
    A Bug

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    Tonight I am parked in Arkansas and see this truck pulling out of the fuel lane with only one headlight working and so I walk up and tell the guy but he did not seem to really care. Just drove right on out saying he was not worried about it.

    I have only been driving a couple years and honestly never been inspected or pulled over yet for anything so maybe I do not really know. I just always thought driving a truck with a bad light at night meant instant death from dot. Is it not that big of a deal? Do truckers get warnings for stuff like that like regular cars do?
     
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  3. Sep 15, 2015 #2
    Cottonmouth85

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    No, we get tickets, csa points and the like.... but some drivers simply lack the mental capacity to change a bulb. (Or carry a spare)
     
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  4. Sep 15, 2015 #3
    HalpinUout

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    Cars and Trucks both have to have working headlights... Some drivers don't care...
     
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  5. Sep 15, 2015 #4
    justcarhaulin

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    The way I see it, I never wanna give cops the reason to pull me over. Lord knows as a black male I have been pulled over for some of the most trivial things ever. That includes even when am not driving.
     
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  7. Sep 15, 2015 #5
    Cranky Yankee

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    the first thing i learned when i got my license in 1969 was to have everything working a cop notices
    as kids we rode the back roads drinking and driving
    i think the same applies to big trucks 45 years later
    even thou we dont drink and drive
    csa and such follows us even longer
     
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  8. Sep 15, 2015 #6
    Cottonmouth85

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    Ha... same here. Life lessons learned road trippin'
     
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  9. Sep 15, 2015 #7
    DoubleO7

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    "Road Trippin" that sounds like Southern Illinois talk there!!
     
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  10. Sep 15, 2015 #8
    Cottonmouth85

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    You ever go out to Yingstville, 07?
     
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  11. Sep 15, 2015 #9
    DoubleO7

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    Never heard of it. Effingham County?
     
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  12. Sep 15, 2015 #10
    Cottonmouth85

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    Idk.... little unincorporated dope cook trailer park village by Edgewood
     
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