You may all laugh at this silly post, but just stop to think for a minute, when you drive with the windows 
down, how many decibels are damaging your ears, if you drive from 18 to 65, at 90 hours per fortnight, you will go deaf when you are an old man/woman.
I drive with foam ear plugs, the sound of the tyres on the road surface and daily traffic noise will cause you problems in later life, they are cheap to buy at builders merchants or take some from the free vending at factories.
I snore at night, so that helps, if you overnight in a lay by, it cuts out the sound of passing traffic but not all of it.
When i get home i leave them in my ears as the cuts out the old lady having a go at me raising her voice at me.
If you saw Faulty Towers and the Spanish waiter Manuel, imagine him saying âque!!â which means what, that is me at home, âque!â
I am from Barcelona, with Basil leap frogging in anger.
What?
toby can you type louder up i cant hear
pardon can you say that again 
QUE.QUE.lol. 
I have always been worried about the deafening explosion of high pressure air when you disconnect the red suzi.
I was told that if you are left with a âringing in your earsâ after, say, leaving a noisy disco, then your hearing has been damaged
100 decibels is the threshold of aural pain (I think)
I remember seeing a tv programme about a scientist studying hearing. He wanted to establish a base-line so he went to the quietest place (Alaska, Greenland or somesuch) expecting to find perfect hearing in the natives. He was surprised to find damaged hearing. He established that this was due to hunters standing in perfect silence, by a hole in the ice, before discharging a 0.303" rifle into the hair of a surfacing seal. He implied that hearing damage was due to the suddenness of noise and not just its loudness. We may suffer deafness as an occupational injury but we would struggle to establish culpability
The red air line is very loud, i am surprised the elf n safety bods do not issue us with ear defenders for this.In fact you could claim for loss of hearing in litigation for not protecting you at work.
There are machines that can measure how good or bad the hearing is, you listen to some faint beeps, and press a trigger to measure how long it took to hear it.
Try firing 9 mm, 5.56 mm, and lots of 7.62 mm for a living! 
then drive up and down the motorways! 
Iâve attributed my increasing deafness to a combination of three things-
- Driving for years with an open window to my right.
- Driving for years with inadequately silenced engine to my left.
- Spending the greater part of my off-duty time playing music far too loudly.
Incidentally, my son-in-law has just heard that he and his fellow workers are to receive compensation for hearing loss suffered when employed making pre-cast concrete sections twenty years ago. Iâm not holding my breath that this may apply to the transport industry anytime in the near future!
what about tyre fitters, i have never seen one have ear foam plugs with all the noise they make.?
I have noticed ear plug dispensers in several tyre companiesâ depots but have never seen a tyre fitter using them. If youâve ever been near to an inflating super single when itâs decided to blow over itâs rim, you may understand the need for ear plugs!
Security guards at pop concerts never used to wear ear plugs, they do now.
toby1234abc:
Security guards at pop concerts never used to wear ear plugs, they do now.
I suspect thatâs more to do with the sheer awfulness of modern pop music than any desire to protect their hearing.
toby1234abc:
You may all laugh at this silly post, but just stop to think for a minute, when you drive with the windows
I drive with foam ear plugs, the sound of the tyres on the road surface and daily traffic noise will cause you problems in later life, they are cheap to buy at builders merchants or take some from the free vending at factories.
I snore at night, so that helps, if you overnight in a lay by, it cuts out the sound of passing traffic but not all of it.
When i get home i leave them in my ears as the cuts out the old lady having a go at me raising her voice at me.
If you saw Faulty Towers and the Spanish waiter Manuel, imagine him saying âque!!â which means what, that is me at home, âque!â
I am from Barcelona, with Basil leap frogging in anger.
I do not think it is silly at all.You are lucky you did not drive trucks in the 70âs because even without them window you were deafened by engine noise.
Apart from driving trucks all my life I have also ridden motorcycles without earplugs which has probably had far more bad effect than driving any truck.
I would be wary about wearing earplugs when driving a truck though.Remember hearing is a very important sense when driving.
Not sure how the law stands on that one?
toby1234abc:
You may all laugh at this silly post, but just stop to think for a minute, when you drive with the windows
I drive with foam ear plugs, the sound of the tyres on the road surface and daily traffic noise will cause you problems in later life, they are cheap to buy at builders merchants or take some from the free vending at factories.
I snore at night, so that helps, if you overnight in a lay by, it cuts out the sound of passing traffic but not all of it.
When i get home i leave them in my ears as the cuts out the old lady having a go at me raising her voice at me.
If you saw Faulty Towers and the Spanish waiter Manuel, imagine him saying âque!!â which means what, that is me at home, âque!â
I am from Barcelona, with Basil leap frogging in anger.
Think you might actually have a point about driving with the window down.
Dont think its so much of a decibel thing though,more of the draught in the right ear(left if driving a l/h/d)or wild frontier if youre Davy Crockett.