What do you Listen to on the Road?

They are implementing license suspensions for distracted driving in Ontario next year. License suspension plus 3 demerit points plus $1000 fine first offence.
Cops on school bus were collecting evidence on 4 wheelers recently and bagged dozens of drivers.

 

I just started using the music available on my Amazon Prime membership. All kinds of tunes on streaming playlist. First, I had to get a volume booster app for my phone. The max volume wasn't enough when I plug into the truck stereo with an auxiliary cord. I hear some deep tracks from my classic country and 70s rock that I haven't heard in years, even on satellite radio.

 

I will plead guilty to doing this. I listened to music and other things while driving. With hours and hours of time basically parked on your can what else is there to do? However there are some basic concepts here that need to be addressed. One, it is a MYTH that a human can multitask! The human brain can only process one thing at a time. If you are headed west on I-40 somewhere in New Mexico and jamming to the recent release, where is your attention? Your eyes? Your hearing? What about your sense of smell or feel? My last truck had such a good sound system that if I really cranked it I could shake my entire tractor. If you routinely play music loud will you feel that very slight change in the steering brought about by something starting to go bad? Trucking is about all 4 of these senses, there are 5 but hopefully nobody is tasting their trucks. I will always advise caution with keeping sound volumes down while driving. Keep your attention outside as you continue to scan. I can't tell you how many times I have heard a driver later after an incident or accident say "I was not paying attention".

Nothing at all wrong with listening to things while driving. I did it. However there are times when a driver should just shut it all down and listen to their truck for a while. Once you learn those sounds you can BY SOUND know when some things are not right.

Now back to that question to what do you listen too, thanks for reading this!

 

Preach it Brother @Moose1958!!!

 

I prefer long runs with mostly night driving; that's why I prefer reefers.
Dim the interior lights/dash lights; hot coffee and good music; trucking coast to coast through the night.
Not the traditional trucker music though; we each have our own taste.

Ted Power - Monja
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Third Reich Swing: Oskar Joost Tanz-Orch. - Notenhochzeit, 1936
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Petite Fleur - Best Version
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

Audrey Landers - Manuel Goodbye
(She was an actress on the TV show "Dallas")

 

This young gal has some skills all self taught and from her mother as well.
This is the song she put on the internet 3 years ago now she is a up and coming legend. This song gets into your head.

 

I am deaf. However with a sufficient premium audio with equalizer I can make it match my chart. Then boost the volume. I try not to overdrive the speakers though.

I use a bass song these days to find the limits in my headsets and speakers at which they "Crackle" or burn plastic or something else in current. Then back off a smidge and get going.

One time i stumbled onto a Kansas radio coming out of Denver with Georgian Chant. It took me several days to get that out of the experimental dial. It's crazy how they work that stuff in their time for a variety of reasons. It beats listening to bushel of corn bushel of soy, beef per etc. But I'll leave the Georgians alone this round.

Here is the generic bass test tune if you can match your hardware to it then you know whatever you play will come out pretty clean.

Next would be the classic late 70's West Virginia some of us love.

 

Either I am near def or my new Plantronics head set is trash.

 

Im using a OneOdio I got on sale at 40.00 instead of 100. It has the beef for me anyhow. But I keep thinking there has to be a bigger set of headsets capable of reaching lower. But these Odios have to be not fed so much current below 100 hertz they try to burn the plastic or wires inside them. So I am hunting a set that will take 20 hertz or better. I already know it will cost a mint. Anything beyond 4 grand in hertz is not relevant unless I can boost to 130 Db plus. Which usually hurts normal hearing really bad. But is moderate for me. Until the teeth and skull starts to resonate, then thats quite enough of that icepick.

Its not the tune, but the boosting of the music tones to find limits in your hardware and speakers. Sometimes it destroys them. (Im not responsible...) Ive already smelled burning inside these ones a few times. I'll have to replace them at some point with a bigger beefier and more capable set.

What I would really love to do is go back to Baltimore get that solid state 70's deck and speakers yea high, tie into that thing and turn the volume dial to 120. (Maxes out at 99) But the neighbors would shoot me for hearing kentucky moon once too many times. he he.

Once we had a digital recording of a source for the 1812 Overture with live fire artillery. The analog speakers had to be equalized to not get shot out literally. This would be back in the 80's with the CD form that was coming out then.

The only problem with today's essentially unlimited sounds in digital is when you do haul out the 8 track or vinyl you learn the differences between the two.