nightblindness or bad adjustment?

friend, are you talking about road signs along the interstate or in town?
if the interstate, that is normal. the headlights will show the objects ahead depending on the angle of projection, and as you go by the sign yes it will get dimmer and unreadable by the time you pass. no big deal, as to night-blindness that's a different problem.

 

you're trying to read the signs when they're closer than 60 feet? How slow are you traveling?

 

This is normal. You are wasting your time with something that isn't a problem. If you don't learn to pick your battles you won't last long as a professional driver.

With all due respect this problem is about as important as the one recently presented by another new driver about his desire to sleep naked while running team and training.

C'mon guys get real. If you are going to be an OTR truck driver you will find out your job is to accommodate everyone else. It is not for them to make your life easy. Soon you will have real problems to worry about and this will seem as silly to you as it does to us.

Headlights are not adjusted to shine on signs, they are adjusted to shine a good distance ahead of a vehicle.......which is where you should read your signs. Cars and trucks are not the same and you have to adjust to things not get them adjusted to you.

 

One thing that really helps is a light pair of sunglasses. Not the real dark ones but just something enough to cut the glare down and also keeps your eyes from adjusting in and out every time you see bright lights. Just be sure to take them off when you are going through the scales!

 

To me it sounds like your driving to close. 60 ft is less than a truck length, you should be looking well beyond that at signs.

I do not believe it is night blindness as you can read the signs just not as closely as you want. Perhaps some prescription glasses if your having problems reading standard signage?


You got lucky if they did not chase you down at the ag station. Start trying to read signs several hundred feet in front of you so you have time to react.

 

The "amber" lenses work best at night. At some truck stops, you will see "combo pack" for under $20.00..one is amber for night vision the other a dark brown for day. The brown tone reduces the "blues" and attracts the "greens" to your vision center of your brain.....

BTW....you do have a brain don't you....if not it won't help!

 

I'd get me some of those for my red/green deficiencies....oh wait, something about a brain. Count me out.

 

I don't need to take my sunglasses off at night....Because, When you're cool, The sun always shines!

That's why you're in the office!