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Good day.
I don't drive anymore, but my drivers have come to me with questions on this a number of times. From my reading of the FMCSR's, I *think* I have the right idea, but I figured that I'd ask where it counts -- from those who are actually writing the citations for such things!
This is actually three questions in one:
I don't drive anymore, but my drivers have come to me with questions on this a number of times. From my reading of the FMCSR's, I *think* I have the right idea, but I figured that I'd ask where it counts -- from those who are actually writing the citations for such things!
This is actually three questions in one:
- If a CMV (tractor-trailer in my case) has more than the required number of lights (for example, instead of the 5 on the rear for clearance lights, they have a strip of lights all the way across), is this a violation?
- If they have more than the proper number of lights and have a light or two out, but still have at least the required number up, is this a violation? Again, thinking toward those trucks with a long strip of lights -- and would it matter which ones... for example, if the right-most one on the rear was out (one of the required ones in this case).
- Lastly, I've had a couple drivers want to put lights in odd places -- in the windows and on the grill, for example. It seems to me as though this would be in violation as well, even if they were amber.