Fog & Chicken lights burnt out.

From my own experience.... I have had a couple times where I was "inspected" and had the chicken lights out. All I got for those was a verbal warning saying I should get them working if they are on the truck. As for the written warnings or tickets, I only ever got them for the headlights, factory turn signals, cab marker lights, and stop/tail/turn lights on the back. Same for the trailer.

 

Try 393.9 see what it says. I only write warnings or cites for what is required, ID lights, clearance lights, turn signal, brake lights, side marker lights and tail lights. 393.25 deals with stop lights.

 

I have been inspected a few times and two times I failed an inspection for a added on light that did not work or was burnt out. Even though I did not get a ticket I did not get the paper saying I passed inspection which ment I did not recieve an inspection bonus for the company. Many companies give money to a driver that passes a dot inspection. Depending on the level of the inspection it can be anywere from 25.00 to 75.00.

Either fix the burnt out light or take it off all together.

 

This is the federal rule however there are also state rules that say all lamps must be operational.

From a retired federal DOT official

 

I took the above text from an earlier thread on truck lights. The poster mentions that chicken lights are illegal in Pennsylvania. If his interpretation of the law is correct, is it safe for me to assume that trucks registered out of state, but travelling through Pennsylvania, are exempt from this?

Personally, I rarely see a big truck around here with anything other than what I would assume are the standard lights.

 

Some of the trucks I used to run had HUNDREDS of chicken lights and, yes, I got a couple tickets when one ###### light went out! Best thing now to do is to get LED lights and they rarely go out. A little more expensive, but they are worth it for sure. Especially when the top one would go out...I hated that. BUT, every single light must work on that truck...no matter how many...

 

Cal law says ALL lites on a veh. must work. Not only do your fog lites have to work. You can leagly run with them on in Cali. Even if there is no fog.