LED DOCKING LITES

[boxcarOkie]

Oke, that view of the bus makes a statement. I'm not sure what it is but it sure is a statement.

No statement, it was just to show "the backup lights on the bumper is all."  Thanks for your comment.

BCO

[Busted Knuckle]

First off Don I love the cow bell so the kids can tell when yer home

Second,
I know first hand that if you have aux back up lights on a COMMERCIAL vehicle in CA they must ONLY be hooked into the reverse light switch and not any way to turn them on while going forward! (I have no idea if they enforce this on private vehicles or not!)

But I used to put "KC Day Lighters" on the rear of all my trailers for "back up" or "docking" lights.
Well late one night I was scoot'n along up Hwy 99 about 70-75 in a 55 and just minding my own business when a car came up behind me and followed me for about 10 miles with his brights on. Well I slowed down to 55 to allow him to pass (like he hadn't been travel'n faster than me to have caught me in the first place), but he stayed right there with the brights on.
So after a couple miles of this I reset my cruise and rolled on like I was, well about 10 more miles went by, and by this time I was PISSED about his bright lights and flipped on my back up lights!
Well as soon as I hit the switch it was "party" time because  he hit his DISCO lights and we both pulled over!
First thing he told me was "Son, I wasn't gonna bother you for running 15-20 over the limit until you decided to blind me!"
SO I told him I was just returning the "favor" as his brights in my mirrors had been blinding me for 25-30 miles.
And he said "well ya know if bright lights were bothering me I wouldn't be looking in the mirror !"
Well I told him that I was taught to scan the road and mirrors at all times so I would notice anything that needed my attn. And that it wasn't safe not to check mirrors!
He said "well ya might have me there, but here in CA it's against the law to have ANY lights facing the rear that are not connected to your reverse gear of the transmission and I can guarantee that you weren't backing up! And here in CA that is a $***.** fine!" (I forget the amount but it was outrageous!)
I told him well if people didn't follow with bright lights they wouldn't know that they weren't attached to my "reverse gear." (as he had put it)
He told me "well son, you can argue that to the judge, but I'm gonna write you a ticket for these here *landing lights*, and you have to either disable them, or take them off before we leave here!"
I told him I would take the ticket, but I wasn't taking them off!
He pulled out his "night stick" and told me "son, you either take 'm off or disable them, or I will disable them for you! Those look pretty expensive, and I'd hate to have to show you my way of disabling them if you know what I mean!"
So I told him to hang on a minute and went back to my "tractor" and grabbed a pair of side cut pliers out of my tool box and cut the wires on them.
As he handed me the ticket he said "See now everybody is happy! You didn't get a speeding ticket that would go on your driving record, or your log book checked, or the truck or trailer searched and I wrote one more citation toward my quota! Ain't that just a sweet win/win for both of us?"

 BK  

[boxcarOkie]

Painting today, I think I would rather get down in the dirt, and peck at it like a chicken, than paint. 

I have been stopped in Cal. and had it both ways, nice and not so nice.  We don't do Cal. anymore, we go into four corners and then turn north and that is it, up 395 to Reno or thataways.  (Okie Talk)  They wrote me a $28 ticket at the scales one night for "not having my bunk made" if you can believe that. 

I like the sunshine state, I really do.

You do make some valid issues, improper use of any kind of light, will get you grief from law enforcement and in some cases a heavy fine.  I had some 225,000 AC landing lites on my van, got ticket for using them in Colorado, think it was somewhere around $100+ and I don't use them anymore.  Bright lights irritate the fizz out of me, but I will hit an off ramp, truckstop whatever and blow a little time.  I am too old to get all worked up about it. 

This is our third Cowbell, we had two previously, one was stolen and the other dropped off the coach somewhere in New Mexico, that one had been around for a long time.

Thanks for your interesting comment

BCO

[JohnEd]

First off Don I love the cow bell so the kids can tell when yer home

Second,
I know first hand that if you have aux back up lights on a COMMERCIAL vehicle in CA they must ONLY be hooked into the reverse light switch and not any way to turn them on while going forward! (I have no idea if they enforce this on private vehicles or not!)

But I used to put "KC Day Lighters" on the rear of all my trailers for "back up" or "docking" lights.
Well late one night I was scoot'n along up Hwy 99 about 70-75 in a 55 and just minding my own business when a car came up behind me and followed me for about 10 miles with his brights on. Well I slowed down to 55 to allow him to pass (like he hadn't been travel'n faster than me to have caught me in the first place), but he stayed right there with the brights on.
So after a couple miles of this I reset my cruise and rolled on like I was, well about 10 more miles went by, and by this time I was PISSED about his bright lights and flipped on my back up lights!
Well as soon as I hit the switch it was "party" time because  he hit his DISCO lights and we both pulled over!
First thing he told me was "Son, I wasn't gonna bother you for running 15-20 over the limit until you decided to blind me!"
SO I told him I was just returning the "favor" as his brights in my mirrors had been blinding me for 25-30 miles.
And he said "well ya know if bright lights were bothering me I wouldn't be looking in the mirror !"
Well I told him that I was taught to scan the road and mirrors at all times so I would notice anything that needed my attn. And that it wasn't safe not to check mirrors!
He said "well ya might have me there, but here in CA it's against the law to have ANY lights facing the rear that are not connected to your reverse gear of the transmission and I can guarantee that you weren't backing up! And here in CA that is a $***.** fine!" (I forget the amount but it was outrageous!)
I told him well if people didn't follow with bright lights they wouldn't know that they weren't attached to my "reverse gear." (as he had put it)
He told me "well son, you can argue that to the judge, but I'm gonna write you a ticket for these here *landing lights*, and you have to either disable them, or take them off before we leave here!"
I told him I would take the ticket, but I wasn't taking them off!
He pulled out his "night stick" and told me "son, you either take 'm off or disable them, or I will disable them for you! Those look pretty expensive, and I'd hate to have to show you my way of disabling them if you know what I mean!"
So I told him to hang on a minute and went back to my "tractor" and grabbed a pair of side cut pliers out of my tool box and cut the wires on them.
As he handed me the ticket he said "See now everybody is happy! You didn't get a speeding ticket that would go on your driving record, or your log book checked, or the truck or trailer searched and I wrote one more citation toward my quota! Ain't that just a sweet win/win for both of us?"

 BK  

In Orygun a "local" cop would have tasered and maced you and you would have fallen getting in the cruiser.  And that with only half that conversation.  Sad to say.  My experience with CHP was that they used a lot of "Sir"s and Mr. and "I'm sorry"s and such.  I hope that is still the case down there.  I was told, by CHP University alumni, that the high incidence of CHP officer deaths by gunfire was reduced below national averages by, now get this..... "sensitivity training". I can't swear to this and I admit that we had all been drinking.  Broderic Crawford is long gone.

Thanks for sharing that BK.  The story is encouraging.

John