Blue tinted bulbs on big rigs

[JohnR66]

I am noticing more tractor-trailer rigs now with the blue shifted light from the headlights. What is scary is they appear to me to be less bright (because they are). That's all we need is the driver's vision of these big and heavy vehicles to be impaired by a gimmick bulb.:shakehead

 

[smokinbasser]

I guess those trucks with the blue tinted lights will be going through safety inspections soon enough and then they will find out if they can use them or not. Requirements for POVs and commercially licensed trucks are wayyy different. I am not sure but I believe the blue hued lights on cars are projection lights and not just a change in bulbs (referring to factory stock)

 

[Radiophile]

I guess it's spilled over to headlights now. For whatever reason the trend with drivers over the last several years has been blue lighting. It started with CBs, GPS, and satellite radio receivers, and seems to have spread to general lighting as well. I don't know how they can see anything in the dark. Blue kills my night vision.

 

[was.lost.but.now.found]

How do you know it's not a cool HID?

 

[kuksul08]

I noticed this as well. They are quite bright, but way too blue. In fact they remind me of a friend's civic with HIDs, but no projector.

 

[Diesel_Bomber]

Most truckers want to be able to see better too. It's no surprise that the mass marketing lies have convinced them to seek the same "upgrade" as motorists, and put blue bulbs in their trucks too.

 

[-Virgil-]

Nothing really new here; truck owners have been doing dumb things with lighting for a lot of years. We've all seen amber "brake/tail" lights, overly-bright and overly-numerous rear decorative red lights that make the brake lights invisible, etc. And truck makers, too, have done dumb things. Giant big rig with tiny, low-output 4" x 6" rectangular sealed beams...

 

[blasterman]

Actually I don't mind it when they put 10,000 running lights on the side of their rig because little kids get a kick out of it; 'hey look, it's Optimus Prime'.

If it's a private truck owner they are at fault for the bulbs. If it's a trucking company we shouldn't blame the drivers.

I'm guessing the main offenders are private drivers. I'm also guessing the blue filtered halogens better attract hookers at truck stops or something.:sick2:

 

[Search]

Actually I don't mind it when they put 10,000 running lights on the side of their rig because little kids get a kick out of it; 'hey look, it's Optimus Prime'.

If it's a private truck owner they are at fault for the bulbs. If it's a trucking company we shouldn't blame the drivers.

I'm guessing the main offenders are private drivers. I'm also guessing the blue filtered halogens better attract hookers at truck stops or something.:sick2:

Lot lizard

 

[bshanahan14rulz]

I've seen a lot of buses and 18-wheelers with projectors with HIDs (don't know if they are HID projectors, though..)

 

[3000k]

I saw a tour bus not to long ago that actually had PINK headlights. On the bright side, they were not very bright.

 

[JohnR66]

How do you know it's not a cool HID?

I know what a blue filtered incan looks like. HID looks totally different to me. These looked like a cheap blue tinted halogen, not higher end ones where they use premium fill gases and higher driven fillemts to make up for some of the lost light.

 

[Diesel_Bomber]

I saw a tour bus not to long ago that actually had PINK headlights. On the bright side, they were not very bright.

If HID's get run WAAAAAAAAAAY too long, they'll turn pink, and put out about the same light as crappy halogens. A lot of people think that as long as the lights still turn on, they're fine. This is not the case.

 

[tranks]

i've never noticed blue but i have noticed that all of them suck. driving trucks around the lot at work at night i can't hardly see anything. i usually click on my olight m20 so i can see where stuff is.

i don't mind trucks covered in lights, you can see them better. but i haven't seen any that use amber lights for brake lights or have so many that you couldn't tell which were brakes.

 

[Diesel_Bomber]

but i haven't seen any that use amber lights for brake lights or have so many that you couldn't tell which were brakes.

Usually it's not an intentional thing. It's a matter of having a brake light out and no 4" round red lights handy, but a 4" round amber light being available. Put the amber light in, because it's better than nothing, and get the load down the road. Very few drivers own the trailer, so once the trailer is delivered they don't care.