ASKING FOR A FRIEND--CLEARANCE LIGHTS...

Just because it's daylight doesn't make it ok. They still have to work. So tell your "friend" there it is.

 

I would have rolled with it. I say this from personal experience.

 

Lights according to the FMCSA Regulations prescribing basic required locations and factory installed are supposed to work period. We used to carry a box of spares for all lights so when one went out, we dropped a new one in so it worked and some wiring as well as rubber tape etc. small tools etc.

Lights must work always. No workarounds.

In short day or night if DOT man wants to see those lights, flip em on. Let's see which if any of them are burned out....(Fishing for revenue...)

There is another part two of my thought.

To have a truck in a shop anywhere. Means lost time against expected arrival time. Dispatchers, Managers, Brokers, Drivers, Customer and his traffic department, warehouse man, or god help us the JIT auto parts factory that is running out of parts... waiting on you to fix it.

It is the worst stress imaginable. If it is broke TAKE. THE. TIME. TO. FIX. IT. THERE. AND. THEN. Never mind the cries of you rolling yet? YOu moving yet? Get going yet? etc. Fix the appt times and re trip plan after the damage is done to time lost at shop.

 

Run 'em and don't forget to keep them turned off. Take care of that customer and then...

... fix them, it's about as elementary as wiring can get. I was working for a place that would just twist the wires together and tape 'em,and this was in their main shop. I could have done a nice crimp in the same amount of time.

Get yourself some replacement bulbs or LED fixtures, a decent stripper, crimper, crimps and shrink tube. You can replace a fixture faster than the time it takes to wait at the repair counter, and if you do it right you'll never worry about it. The first one you do yourself you'll save the cost of all those tools.

What happened to the generation that could fix their own stuff? Change a lightbulb without watching youtube first?

 

I don't get this.

Doesn't anyone ever read the FMCSA regs they are supposed to have with them?