i drive with the driver side down. there was one instance in little falls, mn where i was driving along highway 10 and a giant bug hit the mirror. i was about to take a swig of my mountain dew livewire. the splattered bug got all over my face and inside of my mouth. i wiped it off and all i could smell was some nasty latex for about 400 miles. the taste....well, it was quite nasty.

 

So, you're saying you spit and not swallow? :lol:

 

sure thing, good buddy. :P

 

At the trucking co I work for, the girls in the office have soft voices, and I just pretend to hear what they say. But the truckers all yell at each other. I love it, since I can HEAR them. I had some hearing loss even before going into trucking, but even so, to save what I have, I take a pair of decibel-lowering earmuffs in the cab, and I put them on when the noise gets to be too much. Same hearing protection you see at a firing range. Some long grades uphill on a certain type of road surface just rip my ears up. A cop once asked me if I wore the ear protectors in the truck, and I said I just use them for lawn mowing. I got a ticket anyway, but not for the ear protectors.

I drive 2005, 2006 volvos. They sound pretty loud to me, but they are supposedly not too bad, compared to other trucks.

I tried earplugs, but they irritate my ear canals, and I don't want to get an ear infection.

I've noticed that folks who work in the trucking biz automatically raise their voices quite a bit, during conversation. I guess they assume everyone has some degree of heraring loss .

 

I drive a mack daycab. I think it's actually pretty quiet. Sometimes I cant even hear when I'm redlining in 9th gear down a steep hill till I look and see.

As for the original question...I'm sure 50% of people on here would say "yeah wear ear protection" and all that. Get the heIl out of here. The day I have to wear ear plugs going down the road is the day I need put in the grave. Cab noise is not much louder than a pickup with a big motor. JMO

 

my cab is very noisy. I like it that way. it keeps me awake. :lol: my hearing was never too good & I like it that way cause I have awife & 4 girls :lol:

 

I seem to remember an audio engineer turned driver who took db readings in and outside of the truck and listed the results somewhere within this board. I can’t locate his previous posts but they were fairly detailed from a scientific perspective. Does that sound familiar to anyone?

 

Well I was going through West Virginia with my A/C out and a Bee came in and stung me in the neck and chest. Then later that trip another bee came in and went into the door between the window and the door, to come out while pass through the GA Weight station on I 95. The Company did not want to spend 800.00 on ther road to fix it so they spent 1000.00+ to get it done, 765.00 shop work, and deadhead miles from Winter Heaven , FL to Miami, FL then had to deadhead from Miami to Metter GA to get a load. (That was the last straw with these guys. Paid by percentage so no dead head miles pay)

Next job I had the AC went out, and a wasp came in and stung my arm..

So since I am a slight allergic to Bee Stings I would have accepted the bug on the face much better.

 

I drive a 05 Freightliner and i can barley hear my phone ring

 

Most of the trucks I have driven are pretty quiet in the cab. I like the 07' T600 and the 07' 387 pete. Both trucks run and look great.

I currently drive an 07 sterling and I must say this is the worst truck i've ever driven. The noise level is horrbile and the transmission sucks. Sterlings are nothing more than a work truck. No comfort features. Lucky for me I am only in it 8-12hrs a day.