NHTSA Makes External ABS Lamp Rule Permanent - Truckers' Trucking Forum

rookietrucker · **^ Top** #1 08.31.2009

NHTSA Makes External ABS Lamp Rule Permanent

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In a final rule, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has made permanent an existing rule requiring that trailers with antilock brake systems be equipped with an external antilock malfunction indicator lamp. This rule is effective Aug. 31.

The indicator lamp requirement, which is included in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 121 that governs vehicles equipped with air brakes, was originally scheduled to sunset on March 1, but had been extended to Sept. 1 in an interim final rule published in the March 3 edition of the Federal Register.

The rule was created in response to a petition from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, which had asked that the requirement be made permanent. The agency decided to make the rule permanent as a result of additional safety purposes served by the external lamp.

According the final rule documentation, the indicator lamp not only warns the driver of a malfunctioning trailer ABS, but it also indicates which trailer in a double-trailer application has a malfunction, and assists federal and state roadside inspectors and maintenance personnel in identifying a malfunctioning trailer ABS.

NHTSA Makes External ABS Lamp Rule Permanent

msmspilot · **^ Top** #2 08.31.2009

Yeah, they're a big safety improvement. I have the trailer ABS light come on on the truck dashboard when the trailer light isn't on all the time.

old-six-pack · **^ Top** #3 08.31.2009

bust the bulb

IAMGREAT · **^ Top** #4 09.01.2009

Do what Montana Express used to do before they went out of business, CUT THE WIRE!
No more light!

Raezzor · **^ Top** #5 09.02.2009

Funny thing is even if the ABS isn't working the companies won't fix them. It's too much of a hassle for them. I've had about 30 or so trailers between them that I reported the ABS lamps were on and they would always say, "Just drive it." *shrug*

FriedTater · **^ Top** #6 09.02.2009

but cut it back far enough it cant be seen,nor seen dangling from a creeper point of view

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Originally Posted by IAMGREAT

Do what Montana Express used to do before they went out of business, CUT THE WIRE!
No more light!

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