Reflective tape
My wife is on some face book RV groups. It seems on her groups everyone is talking about adding extra reflective tape on the back of the camper. I do not have a problem with adding the tape. I am j...
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rockhillmanor wrote:CavemanCharlie wrote:
...... In a foggy condition your white reflective tape might cause a person to think that they are heading oncoming to a car and swerve into the other lane.
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Red and White DOT tape is fine. DO NOT ADD REFLECTIVE WHITE TAPE TO THE BACK ON ANYTHING.
Sorry but your are incorrect on this.
AND if you think a trailer with approved DOT reflective white tape "looks like a vehicles headlight coming at you"???? Well......
Until you have some self-righteous donkey with a homemade POS trailer or old car following you with crappy (or nonexistent) tail lights, and now you have a bright white reflected light visible on each side of it and it ..........
“looks like vehicles headlights coming at you”.
Which is why DOT conspicuity is never all white at bumper / headlight height, it’s red and white alternating sections to minimize the chances of that happening.
