Emerg Lights
You're lucky, because here in BC they're heavily restricted to all but a few vehicles! I can run them on my dump truck when working highway projects, and tow trucks, snow plows, flagger/construction vehicles, etc, can also run them when working, but no civilian vehicles can run them. In fact, if you have them installed, I think they have to be covered up if running on a public roadway!
There are reasons for this restriction: Flashing ambers lower the actual legal speed limits permissible here now, so you are in effect creating traffic "control" when you flip the switch (at least in theory)! It's something that's restricted here, and for good reason!
If I have to do a U-Turn in the middle of highway 1, for a construction project, I will most likely turn on my beacons, and that's to warn the motoring public to watch out, since there's now a large commercial vehicle pulling funky moves on a high speed roadway!
There are reasons for this restriction: Flashing ambers lower the actual legal speed limits permissible here now, so you are in effect creating traffic "control" when you flip the switch (at least in theory)! It's something that's restricted here, and for good reason!
If I have to do a U-Turn in the middle of highway 1, for a construction project, I will most likely turn on my beacons, and that's to warn the motoring public to watch out, since there's now a large commercial vehicle pulling funky moves on a high speed roadway!

You would also be wise to get rid of that fast single-flash pattern. More and more studies in the emergency vehicle world are pointing to large lights and slow flash patterns as being optimal. Anyone approaching you from the rear, at night, will be dazzled when it goes to that rapid single-flash.
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Agreed, if you are doing them fast like a plow then you expect the vehicle to be moving. Construction uses slower patterns as they are usually stopped or moving slowly. Also as someone who can legally have red lights on his truck, a word of advise, don't go "whacker" with them. Just have what you need.
You would also be wise to get rid of that fast single-flash pattern. More and more studies in the emergency vehicle world are pointing to large lights and slow flash patterns as being optimal. Anyone approaching you from the rear, at night, will be dazzled when it goes to that rapid single-flash.
Added some Emerg lights for when it is really foggy and dangerous to pull over, spend a lot of time on back woods roads...
just check your area for tow truck driver injuries or deaths..
and they have amber blinky lights...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AfLRXztMUk
just check your area for tow truck driver injuries or deaths..
and they have amber blinky lights...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AfLRXztMUk
Last edited by Steve Osborne; Mar 9, 2020 at 08:10 PM.










