Fellas,
While I agree that flashing lights will without a doubt make your mil-veh
more visible you may bring more heartache upon yourselves than you
want....especially depending upon your state's laws. Liability is always an
issue and so are traffic tickets. Your everyday car and pickup, etc, are
manufactured to a Federal Lighting Standard which covers almost everything,
especially lighting. Most states adopt that standard (under another name or
names) as state law and I cannot think of one that does not. So, with that
in mind, may I suggest simply adding and/or improving the type of lights and
reflectors you find on your regular vehicles. By the way, you may have
noticed that the newer commercial vehicles are coming out with the new
"cat-eye" taillights.....VERY bright, very efficient and very hardy lights.
Some even have cat-eye side marker lights. Anyway, if you MUST drive your
baby at night, the magnetic based or clamp-based lamp assemblies (like
wreckers have for towing stuff) are not terribly expensive and WILL do the
job and be perfectly legal if placed correctly on the mil-veh.
Regards,
TJ Smith
(one of those hated Boys in Blue AND proud mil-veh owner! )
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