Beacon light setup help

Truck or trailer dealers, or truck parts like truck/pro have all you need, low sleeper you can put an arm to the back of sleeper where Q/com mounts, hi bunk can have 2 strobes on mir. arms be sure to mount them hi. enough not get in your eyes all trip long

 

Are you at the TA in Maybrook at exit 5, or the Pilot at exit 6 in Newburgh?

The TA would have beacons (you'll pay,) or if you're on your 34 hour reset and have time, there's a Peterbilt dealership across the road from the Pilot off exit 6. If nothing else, they'll direct you to a truck parts dealer in that town somewhere to buy the stuff you need. Gotta have "oversize load" signs front & rear too, and flags on all 4 corners. depends how wide/long you are, and where you're headed too cuz there's never a standard for everything as we all know.

Beacons have to be visible in a 360 degree radius...that's tough depending on the truck to mount them on. One on each mirror arm, two on the rear of the trailer will cover it, or one centered, provided the load is short and the light can be seen from both sides...it's a tricky situation to set up temp. lights for sure...grabbing power back there, etc. I cobbed up wire from the light up to the plug/pigtail, I tapped into junction boxes...depends on your level of ingenuity.

 

Unless you have sleeper extensions/fairings with a hole up top, to bolt a light to somehow...the mirrors make it easiest to run power to them too.(down to the cab.)

 

starting to see trucks have them mounted under the front bumper now. those small rectangular flashing beacons.

 

No doubt there. That's probably a blessing in disguise anyways. Now you can plan things better for the next OS load you get. Set up some lights that you can hardwire in if you do any amount of OS hauling...like snowy said, you can mount the oval flashers under front bumper, and then have the same or even round ones mounted on the trailer. All kinds of options really. I've had to buy the 12V cigarette plug style and cut the plug off and find juice somewhere, in a truck stop like you're doing in the past. Just makes for a half-done, sloppy job doing things like that.

 

Depending on size and stAte you may not need lights. Those popcorn lights at truck stops are worthless. Go to trailer dealers to get what you need.

 

I have a set of magnetic strobes that I carry in the truck that I take out and plug into the little light socket receptacle on the rear of the trailer. The strobes on the truck are mounted on a bracket and the bracket is bolted to the bunk extensions. It's a KW high rise.

A mentioned earlier, make sure the truck strobes are high enough that they don't flash in your mirror.