Reverse lamp

well then you better cough up the money for that violation

 

Any rule stating that reverse can’t be on a switch not tied to transmission ?? If not wiring in a simple back up light would save tons of time... and I agree that’s a BS ticket since you have a trailer behind you

 

Or just turn on you rear cab load lights when the cop tells you to put it in reverse. I've seen many new trucks use the loading lights as reverse lights, I actually just fixed them on a 2009 Cascadia, so there's apparently no rule stating that they have to be at the rear of the truck.

 

In Canada, anything built after 1971 was required to have a reverse light.

 

I don't know when it came into effect, but it's looking like you need them. The easiest/cheapest way is to to add the switch to the trans and wire them to your load lights. Personally, I find them annoying on many trailers though, a white or stainless trailer, they blind you more than help you at night if they reflect off the front of the trailer. I know Optronics makes standard 4" round and oval LED lamps that have a reverse light built into them. Grote and Truck-lite probably do as well. They'd just replace you're current bulbs and you'd still have to wire the reverse, but you wouldn't have to add a bracket or drill a hole for a new light. There's a bunch of different styles.

As far as Pete not showing them installed, that doesn't mean they weren't required, it's not uncommon if the truck was built for a specific application that required finishing by another company. Our car haulers are ordered with no lights at all on the rear of the tractor, no 5th wheel, not even a 7-way plug. All that is finished at Cottrell when they build the head rack, so Pete has no records of those parts.

Edit: We use the oval version of these on our trucks. The factory Cottrell reverse lights are mounted behind a hydraulic cylinder and are pretty useless.

 

nys requires lamp and audible alarm for reverse. dont matter if your out of state if your in NY your required to be in regulation. doesnt matter of your out of state you WILL get a tinted window violation if you have your door glass tinted