LED lights under the trailer

I think your right.

 

They get pretty picky in the middle of the night. I usually go around.

 

It depends on what state your in. I saw a car with one of those license plate frames that turned different colors, got stopped and the made them take it off right there.

 

It makes custom mods a tricky endeavour when each jurisdiction has a mish-mash of regulations. It's the same issue in Canada from province to province, I recently saw a kid parked in the scale house loser lot scraping the tint off his windows with a razor blade. Matters not a bit where the truck is plated, you are expected to be legal in all jurisdictions you enter.

I see many trucks with lights would be illegal in my home jurisdiction (no blue lights anywhere, no forward facing red, no yellow/blue/pink tinted headlights).

I also see see trucks from FL with tints running the road, but a friend was stopped in CT and fined for having tints in a CMV. He had rolled his windows down but they pulled him around a d demanded he put them up since the DOT apparently aren't stupid.

 

Those regs have been in place since I started driving, it only takes a few minutes to look up the states you run in to see what their laws are.

 

Window tint is an easy one.

Part 393
PARTS AND ACCESSORIES NECESSARY FOR SAFE OPERATION

§ 393.60: Glazing in specified openings.

(d) Coloring or tinting of windshields and windows. Coloring or tinting of windshields and the windows to the immediate right and left of the driver is allowed, provided the parallel luminous transmittance through the colored or tinted glazing is not less than 70 percent of the light at normal incidence in those portions of the windshield or windows which are marked as having a parallel luminous transmittance of not less than 70 percent. The transmittance restriction does not apply to other windows on the commercial motor vehicle.

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/section/393.60


Question 1: May windshields and side windows be tinted?

Guidance: Yes, as long as the light transmission is not restricted to less than 70 percent of normal (refer to the American Standards Association publication Z26.1-1966 and Z26.1a-1969).

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/section/393.60?guidance​

And honestly, I wouldn't mind them cracking down on some of the accessory lighting. I preferred running at night and I really dislike a lot of the extra lighting drivers put on... especially the back-of-sleeper lights that are almost always way too bright.

 

A "CopDick"? Isn't that an ancient Christian sect?

 

I had a question that I was going to start a thread for, but I will ask it here and if it gets answered then I won't have to start a thread for it.

Amber marker lights, one can have as many as one wants, as long as they all work. My questions is, can I have more turn signal lights than the mid-turn signal on the side of the trailer. I am thinking of putting marker lights every 2 feet down the side of the trailer and make every other one a turn signal. Is that legal??

 

I passed a trailer today with a similar setup, it was a pretty old 48' trailer with rounded corners, so it's been around a while. I'm just thinking out loud here, but I would assume if it wasn't legal in 30 odd years it would have been changed. They were definitely old school, 2-3" round lights and hanging just under the lip on the outside of the trailer and looked like OEM.