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rzucker

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Anybody watch the oversize loads on the freeway? I've noticed the guys with the 48' drop decks hauling the mid size excavator that is 4'' over width have a huge bank of "scary" warning light bars front and rear. But the real heavy haulers with the 3+3+3 trailers hauling a huge dozer just have a little strobe on the left side of the oversize load sign. Compensation thing? :D
 

Truck Shop

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Yah it's a compensation thing. The only thing I can think of is some people are testing the charging system on their heavy hauler. If you can't see that
D9 or 24 yard can headed towards you----------Well there's a problem. And there is the guy in town that has a 510 hoe and 10 rotating. lol

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JasonG

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On a related note, what is with the strobes on school buses?
Is the intent to blind you so you run off the road?
Brighter is not always better.
 

rzucker

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On a related note, what is with the strobes on school buses?
Is the intent to blind you so you run off the road?
Brighter is not always better.
Kind of like the blinding light packages on the new cop cars. I was traveling one of our major county roads a while back and some idiot had run off into a swamp, nobody hurt just a stuck vehicle... it was half an hour til sunrise and they had 4 sheriff's cars and a wrecker setting up crosswise in the road. Why not just wait til daylight? Nobody was drowning in the swamp. But you couldn't tell where the road was with the lightshow they had going. I even had a deputy yell at me for stopping to make sense of the lights.
 

Truck Shop

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Years back when I was still towing and the strobe lights came on the market, I really disliked them. If your out on a wreck at night that's hours to clean up or
from sundown to sun up operating a tow truck hour after hour with strobes going It would give me a headache. I liked the old rotater style. But in foggy
conditions yellow strobes can't be beat.

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