Led flood light mounted on back of trailer
Hello this is my first post I would like to install led flood lights to the rear of my trailer with a separate rocker switch located near the battery in front of the trailer. My thought is that ...
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Since the HID headlights came along for aftermarket installs, many states have changed their laws to make aftermarket headlights illegal. I drive an ambulance full time and dispise aftermarket HID headlights since 99% of them are installed in factory halogen headlight assemblies and blind the******out of you. Some states went overboard as did Louisiana. In order to combat the HID headlight issue, Lousiana changed the law to NO lighting that changes the factory original performance. Technically speaking, there are supposed to be no Non-factory lights installed unless they are DOT approved on any vehicle including trailers. The law specifically says trailers, semi trailers, to clarify that this is not just a big rig thing.
La RS 32:330
But like I posted earlier, our police just don't follow these vehicle laws. In fact, they protest these laws and refuse to enforce them. The reason being, there is no database available to law enforcement on the job that they can access to justify charging someone with. My wife is a cop and we argue constantly about why she refuses to pull over a 90's vehicle with blinding HID headlights. She said that these laws do not hold up in court and are tossed because they have no way of saying for sure that the lighting was not installed by the factory or dealer at the time of the traffic stop.
The other issue is conflict between state and federal law. Cops just don't want to go there. With the boom in natural gas production, drilling, fracking, etc, there are so many vehicles, trailers, etc, with added lighting and proving that those lights are not suppose to be there or that they are or aren't DOT approved is a waste.
Our inspection stations test factory vehicle lighting, wipers, windshield and horn. Lot's more on the list, but that's all that they actually inspect. Any tandem axle trailer has to be inspected for clearance and traffic lighting. As long as any additional lighting is not used on the road or used irresponsibly, our cops just don't touch it.
La RS 32:330
But like I posted earlier, our police just don't follow these vehicle laws. In fact, they protest these laws and refuse to enforce them. The reason being, there is no database available to law enforcement on the job that they can access to justify charging someone with. My wife is a cop and we argue constantly about why she refuses to pull over a 90's vehicle with blinding HID headlights. She said that these laws do not hold up in court and are tossed because they have no way of saying for sure that the lighting was not installed by the factory or dealer at the time of the traffic stop.
The other issue is conflict between state and federal law. Cops just don't want to go there. With the boom in natural gas production, drilling, fracking, etc, there are so many vehicles, trailers, etc, with added lighting and proving that those lights are not suppose to be there or that they are or aren't DOT approved is a waste.
Our inspection stations test factory vehicle lighting, wipers, windshield and horn. Lot's more on the list, but that's all that they actually inspect. Any tandem axle trailer has to be inspected for clearance and traffic lighting. As long as any additional lighting is not used on the road or used irresponsibly, our cops just don't touch it.
