Flashing LED lights and trailer towing safety

[magnumv8]

Your main concern with the legality of the "flashing amber" warning lights is something that I think you would be unable to use because they are intended for commercial and work vehicles in the process of "working".....there is really no laws anyway that would stop you from driving in certain areas with your 4 way flashers on but with most systems now your brake lights no longer function when your 4 ways are on....

but....what you could do and I recommend for most people with enclosed trailers with the "triple bar light" mounted on the upper rear of the trailer is a center high mounted stop light....they are now available as a replacement for the center light and works as a marker and a brake light....there is a module that can be used to interface it with the existing lights so it isn't too difficult to do.....it gives you a brake light at the highest point on the rear of your trailer and everyone behind you will see it......

D L Rambo....

[Mile High]

I have changed to LED's on the rv and trailer too but I find it easier to depending how many lanes there are to stay left and go with the flow. I stay out of the right lane except to get on and off the highway. If there is 3 lanes or more I'll stay out of the far left.

Jeff

[Dragsinger]

Jeff,

I have notice the same thing about using the center lanes. Seems like I am less in the way, drivers can go around either side of my rig.

[Rob Petrie E395]

I worked as a UPS mechanic for a few years. If you notice you almost never see one of thier trucks in the right lane unless they are getting on or off the highway. They train all drivers to use the second lane from the right on a multiple lane highway. The theory is that if you are in the slow lane you have to deal with more cars entering and leaving the highway. This creates a much larger chance of a accident and it also kills fuel milage speeding up and slowing down all the time. They dont like the left lanes because thats where most of the speeders are and its unsafe for semis to run that fast, they cant maintain speed on hills, plus running that fast burns more fuel. So they have deemed that on a 3 lane highway the center is the safest and on a 4 lane the right center is the safest and most cost effective. If you watch it does seem to be true. Of all the BS that goes on with working for that company their driving rules and safety stuff were some of the best ideas I have ever seen.

[henrys57wagon]

Even when I drive my daily car, truck, or 57, I try and use the center lanes and stay away from the right lane, still idiots enter the highway and cut across the lanes.

[Greg Hill]

Left lane is for passing, not staying in it and blocking traffic. A lot of states will ticket you for staying in the left lane all the time.

[FED 387]

around here the left lane is reserved for Wisconsin motorists!!!!! They get on the hwy get in the left lane and no matter how slow or fast they are going stay there until they arrive at their exit--ya can flash your lites or honk your horn they just will not pull over to any other lane to let any motorist pass---after 10 or 15 cars go around them on the right "some" get the idea and pull over to another lane but most just drive on oblivious to the traffic stacked up behind them--Comp

[FINESPLINE]

Originally Posted by Rob Petrie E395

I worked as a UPS mechanic for a few years. If you notice you almost never see one of thier trucks in the right lane unless they are getting on or off the highway. They train all drivers to use the second lane from the right on a multiple lane highway. The theory is that if you are in the slow lane you have to deal with more cars entering and leaving the highway. This creates a much larger chance of a accident and it also kills fuel milage speeding up and slowing down all the time. They dont like the left lanes because thats where most of the speeders are and its unsafe for semis to run that fast, they cant maintain speed on hills, plus running that fast burns more fuel. So they have deemed that on a 3 lane highway the center is the safest and on a 4 lane the right center is the safest and most cost effective. If you watch it does seem to be true. Of all the BS that goes on with working for that company their driving rules and safety stuff were some of the best ideas I have ever seen.

Not so on Long Island, UPS trailers own the right lane and thank God that they do as they seem to be in no rush.