Night Driving in Sustained Rain

Fog Sucks!

But you can't always follow someone.

When the FOG is so thick that you cannot see the bull dog on the hood, it's time to shut it down...cause you know #### well he's crying!

YOU can feel the edge of the road with your wheels too. YOU just know where the road is at..you have a feel...hard to explain.

But slow down and be patient.
If you have to stop make sure you are off the traveled path.

 

I never pull over on the shoulder heavy rain or not. I get off the interstate on a ramp. It is not safe near the road.

 

To me, driving a truck in the rain is much easier than driving a car. In a truck you have an elevated view. You are looking down at the road, not across it. You are also above a lot of the spray. You can also see those brake lights a half mile down the road as opposed to the automobile driver who can only see the car directly in front of theirs. Visibility is so much better sitting up in a truck than sitting down in a car.

It's not my favorite pastime, but if I gotta' do it, let me do it in a truck.

 

For the folks with an "experienced" windshield, do remember that it is also a safety item.
If it's scratched & pitted to the point of not seeing well due to glare & rain filling the scratches, it's time to have it replaced.

No shop mechanic or head of the shop better complain about you getting the windshield replaced when it gets to that point.

If anyone complains about your wanting it replaced, show it to the creeper cops.

Better yet, wait until you're in the right place & have the time to replace it, & then mysteriously have a large rock kick up into that windshield.

You didn't see the name on the truck it fell of.

You were too interested in instinctively protecting your eyes from the pieces of glass that might have been coming in at you.

In the meantime, I find a pair of driving glasses does help with the nightime rain & fog glare issues.

Polarized with a light tinting seems to work for me.
Makes the glare much easier to deal with & keeps my eyes from getting tired a bit longer.

For the techier of this bunch, there's dash mounted units out there now that use imaging radar or infra red imaging to see thru the fog & rain & dark.

Prices have come down on these units & performance has increased for the dollar.

I think some hi end trucks may be equipped from the factory with this technology.

 

I'm right behind on that man does that bite -n- to do it . In N.Y. on the BQE ( brooklyn Queens Expressway) also known as 278 Then cross over to N.J. -n- then drive the turn pike YIKES !!!

 

If you're in a 4 wheeler,follow us, we might slow down going up hills but we'll make up for it on the other side. I have a lot of cars that want to be in front of me and then slam on their brakes cause they can't see the road.
Most of our headlights are properly adjusted and our wipers are good, that helps a lot.
This morning, traffic was light, it was raining and I ran into some fog, cars with their lights off, but they turned on their 4 ways? So Stupid, they were changing lanes without signaling. They slow to 45 mph, I go to pass them and they speed up, I get behind them, they slow back down. UGH!! Not to mention the owner operators and lease drivers with their headlights off, I guess they can't afford bulbs.

 

You impress me. The ability to see that a truck you are meeting is actually a lease driver as compared to a company driver. Amazing.

Hard to tell if they are an OO versus a leased owner too.

Very impressive.

And to do this in the fog as well instead of watching the road.