Safety Disks

Here is something I came across.
I think drivers could find them very useful.
Besides using instead of a flare.
Good for trainers marking parking spots for trainee.
Can use for a reference point when backing.
Good in dark places. Put on back of trailer for visibility.
Can just use as flashlights. Hang or magnet.
Are small for storage.
I just thought these were worth the cost. Useful...
https://1tac.com/cart/d2488e9952/checkout?cid=d2488e9952&offer_id=1011&aff_id=2237

Warning.... This company sells all kinds of stuff like this. You'll have to click through a bunch of offers on other things like flashlights before done checking out.

 

from what i have seen, they stink. they are not bright enough to be seen from far away. looks like one has to be nearly on top of the disabled car, to actually see them. then too, do you realistically think that a 4 wheeler will actually put them out in any sort of proper order??

how many truckers have YOU SEEN put out the triangles about 2 feet from the ICC bumper and straight across the ICC bumper, rather than the 10', 100' and 100 '...?????

maybe ONLY for a trainer to mark a spot for a student, but then too, would you want a student to be 100% dependant on that, as you'd want them to be 100% dependant on a GPS..??

and absentmindness prevails, in someone (like maybe the trainer or a rookie) leaving them behind..???

nah...do it the old fashion way, back up till you hit something....then blame it on the other guy..

 

I've seen them at the TA or something similar and I agree, they are probably better suited for a backing aid then for roadside breakdown notification use. Dark parking lots and dock areas, you need all the aids you can give yourself to develop visible reference points.

 

If they are bright they limit visibility so all you see is that light, then with bright lights the impaired ones aim for them.

 

I thought they would go good next to the triangle you set out? No argument on triangle placement.
Training uses cones. These take up less room.
When I unload. I have a sight glass to look at, also gauges. When unloading at night. Would be nice to have a light sitting there I just click on to see. Right now I carry around a flashlight on that stuff. I didn't want to get stationary flashlights only good for this and that's all.

 

I weight as close to 80k pounds they can possibly get me when loaded. Let the impaired ones run into me. Highway Patrol has told me the drunks zone in on the lights on a cop car.

 

Will they stand up to being ran over constantly like the reflectors we set out? Every time I ever had to put them devils out they were smashed in minutes and it seemed like it was a dodge em trying to get back to safety. There are many who aim for your bad luck just because. Heck I would set them out and crawl off the road and wait for the tow truck from a distance, would drive the truck off if could be done but these new trucks say, you dead in the water right there.

 

So now you have much experience using these?
smashed in minutes?
ran over constantly?
dodge em trying to get back to safety?
Old trucks can break down and you can drive them off but not new trucks?

 

my last stop, the building is off at an angle to the street, and that is very deceiving at the midnight hour when i arrive there. i can barely see the painted lines, and when snow covers that, i am SOL. so i have to get out, go inside, get a shovel, and clear off the lines, God help me if the snow is coming down faster than i can shovel too at times. THEN these lights, "might" be of some use to me......

then too, with in a few seconds, those lights may very well be buried by that fast falling snow.

giving new meaning to....."yellow snow"....lol

 

it is really just spilled lemonade, I swear. Just scoop it up and enjoy.