What the sun can do to you face when driving at truck.

**Bruno** · 06-09-2012, 02:42 PM

The sun can do more damage to your face than you think in a truck. Click on the link below to see.

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**zorry** · 06-09-2012, 02:55 PM

And I've been busted twice for tinted windows in a commercial vehicle .
Once, very dark.
Second time it was a used truck from California. The tint was so light I'd forgotten the windows were tinted. This was an excuse to pull me over situation.

**Bruno** · 06-09-2012, 06:17 PM

Sun screen in a truck maybe something all drivers need to put on.

**AMonger** · 06-09-2012, 06:44 PM

I know that a lot of veteran drivers end up with melanoma on the left arm. My left am is darker than my right, that's for sure. Now the face...one more thing to worry about.

**the_hungaria** · 06-09-2012, 07:59 PM

It is legal to tint a commercial vehicle as long as it lets through 70% of light (or 30% tint) I have 35% on both sides of my T/T and no mentions of it. Been on there forever. As long *** you don't go limo dark you should be good...

**skyraider** · 06-09-2012, 08:29 PM

Best Sunscreen | Top Picks and Reviews at ConsumerSearch the dermatoligist will tell u to wear sunscreen year around, but u know, the hard headed types wont do it. Yes it is an ego thing guys.

**layoutshooter** · 06-09-2012, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by skyraider

Best Sunscreen | Top Picks and Reviews at ConsumerSearch the dermatoligist will tell u to wear sunscreen year around, but u know, the hard headed types wont do it. Yes it is an ego thing guys.

Don't think it is ONLY an ego thing. I hate the feel of chemicals slathared all over me. It stinks and makes me itch. It will be a few years then we will find out that sun screens cause a different type of cancer. In the mean time I don't have any problem with my vitamin D levels! I still get NO were near the sun I used too when I got to hunt and fish enough. I quit worrying about most of this stuff. If one thing don't get me, something else is surely going too.

**skyraider** · 06-09-2012, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by layoutshooter

Don't think it is ONLY an ego thing. I hate the feel of chemicals slathared all over me. It stinks and makes me itch. It will be a few years then we will find out that sun screens cause a different type of cancer. In the mean time I don't have any problem with my vitamin D levels! I still get NO were near the sun I used too when I got to hunt and fish enough. I quit worrying about most of this stuff. If one thing don't get me, something else is surely going too.

then take ur medication daily, I do, helps with old age,lol

**layoutshooter** · 06-09-2012, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by skyraider

then take ur medication daily, I do, helps with old age,lol

Besides everything else you catch fewer fish and shoot less game when wearing that stinky ole stuff.

Same deal with those smelly ole bug sprays. No use living to 100 if you don't enjoy it!

**Ragman** · 06-09-2012, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by skyraider

then take ur medication daily, I do, helps with old age,lol

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**layoutshooter** · 06-09-2012, 08:49 PM

We COULD cut down on skin cancer rates by getting rid of Daylight Savings time. It's that extra hour of sun that is doing the damage! LOL! I wonder how my Dad, who burns easily, have lived to 89 and counting?

You, know, if I quit doing what the 'powers that be' want me to stop doing, quit eating what I should not and did not drink ANYTHING but water I would already be dead of starvation or boredom.

**hossman2011** · 06-09-2012, 10:56 PM

There is only one big fat guy that should be ghost white...... the michilen man!!!! like my tan man

**Moot** · 06-10-2012, 08:09 AM

Oh Mr. Sun. Sun. Mr. golden sun. Please shine down on me.
Oh Mr. Sun. Sun. Mr. golden sun. Hiding behind a tree.
These little children are asking you. To please come out so we can play with you.
Oh Mr. Sun. Sun. Mr. golden sun. Please shine down on me.

Mr. Sun you treacherous, cancer causing, old bag of hydrogen. We thought you were our friend. Now we find out you are trying to kill us while we drive our vehicles. What's the matter with you? Are you afraid some airborne diesel particulate and greenhouse gas will filter out your harmful UV rays? How insidious of you to enlist the likes of Al Gore, the Corn Growers Association and the Green Party to do your biding here on Earth.

We don't need you! We have Mr. Moon to light our way. I hope you go supernova real soon. I have my welders goggles handy and want a front row seat for this event. Until that day, I will slather my face with 90 weight zinc oxide, take a vow of silence and change my name to Marcel Mootceau.

**TeamCaffee** · 06-10-2012, 04:01 PM

Our group has talked often of window tinting and what is legal and not legal. FMCSA regulation contained in 393.60(d) allows windshield and windows to the immediate left and right of the driver to be tinted such that 70% of the light is transmitted through the window. Clear glass blocks approximately 10% of the light and some factory tinted windows allow 75-80% light to pass through. A typical Freightliner, for example, allows 76% of the light to pass through.

If you were to buy 30% tint to achieve the allowed 70% on a CMV Sprinter, you would then be non-compliant at 49% transmittance. Check before you buy.

No professional driver should be using this, or any other public forum, to promote non-compliance with the regulations. Consider, instead, promoting clear UV blocking window film such as available here: Amazon.com: Clear UV Blocking Window Film - 30" wide: Sold in one continuous roll, by the foot.: Home & Kitchen

Even if you have never been caught it only takes once and now a drivers clean record will have CSA points.

Another item I find interesting it the study that points out drivers do not get enough sun and need to be checked for Vitamin D levels. These levels are usually dangerously low and require a prescription to bring the Vitamin D level up to where taking a daily Vitamin D can maintain a satisfactory level.

**layoutshooter** · 06-10-2012, 04:38 PM

I have been concerned about these kind of articles carried on our so called news outlets for a very long time. Everything is either a crisis, epidemic or a pandemic. They have cried wolf FAR too many times to have any credibility.

I find it very hard to buy that one can burn to a crisp AND not get enough sun to produce the needed Vitamin D. It only takes about 15-20 minutes of sun per day to accomplish that goal. It is, however, a very good idea to get regular blood work to insure proper levels. Mine is checked often and is always in very good ranges.

One other point. IF I were to believe this story, and believed that I was going to get skin cancer I would not care one bit about the regulations. I would do what ever it took to insure protection, let them ticket me, and then sue them. NO freight or CSA points are worth a drivers life. IF this story is true and the regs remain the same, it would just be MORE proof that the government writes regs to make money off of tickets and is not interested in safety.