States that require signage for just over weight

California can ticket for beacons too. In fact I think most states have laws regulating flashing lights and can ticket you for running them when you aren't supposed to.

 

I'm pretty bad about leaving the signs on. I guess I'm just lazy. I hate to pull em all down just to run 90 miles and put them back on.

 

I've been known to run my caution lights on small 2 lane roads, even when legal weight and dimension. When I'm on a small narrow 2 lane, I feel the lights alert drivers that otherwise aren't paying attention that there is a truck coming and they need to give me a little room.

 

You shouldn't.

 

You care to elaborate or am I just supposed to take your word for it?

If I'm on a narrow, curvy road, and having to ease into the other lane to make the curve, I consider myself a hazard. It's my opinion that I need to run my lights. It's not that I wouldn't travel the same road with a truck without lights, but if they are there it couldn't hurt anything.

I've been on such small 2 lanes before that I've had to have a escort running in front of me to alert oncoming traffic.

 

I run my strobes as needed when doing local work in Milwaukee. Plenty of places where I have to back from a street or across one. A little extra flashing light to grab their attention can't hurt.

Same reason I ran my mag strobes on the edges of a 14' wide galvanized frame on a step. It was cloudy out in the middle of the day. The frame would easily blend in with the sky and road surface to somebody looking at their phone.

 

The lights draw attention. Specifically, they draw attention to themselves, and away from the things that a driver ought to be paying attention to, like the road and your lane position.

 

They need to crack down on this around here. Every garbage truck/ tow truck/ utility truck has his strobes running at all times. Even 70 miles an hour on the big road.
The trouble is people get used to seeing flashy things going and it's nothing out of the ordinary.
Then they meet a big load on a small road.

 

And unfortunately some states are stupid enough to require that, and yes, it is problematic.