SPOTLIGHTS on the CAB-ROOF

it it me or it that the most sarcastic post on the forum :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

alix776:
it it me or it that the most sarcastic post on the forum :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Maybe it is and maybe it isnt :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

First of all, only thing I can say about this

dennisw1:

ohterry:
tbh there is no need for them over here. apart from as rob says, look at me in my 580 blah blah.

nine times out of ten i dont even use high beam.it just isnt needed 99% of the time.

Exactly, even at 2 in the morning there is so much traffic about, you rare get to keep the mains on for long before dipping them.

is just :astonished: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:. Only couple of stretches here in Finland came to my mind where this could apply.

dennisw1:
Thing is with roof lights, Scania have spaces for two of them in their exterior sunvisors. But two should be enough, when you see 4, 6 or even 8 then thatโ€™s just pointless, and chances are it uses loads more diesel with the increased drag anyway.

Iโ€™d say the same. Trucks own lights are tolerable, them + two roof spotlights are good, +four is tolerable and more than that simultaneous lights are likely create so strong โ€œlight barrierโ€ that it starts to be dangerous (and not to even mention such amount of spotlights being an open invitation for police to fine you). I even know one O/D whose truck almost failed our MOT test equivalent because he had four spotlights and trucks own high beam on simultaneously pushing combined light reference leves to around 160. 75 is maximum allowed almost everywhere in EU. Only exception that I know is Sweden where isnโ€™t any limit as far as I know, and reasoning behind this law is โ€œwe have to drive so big part of the year in the darkโ€โ€ฆ

Sidelights in SPOT-lights ARE ILLEGAL

Exactly, fining applies also to Finland despite that in few years there seems to have happened some โ€œrelaxingโ€ as now sidelights in spotlights have began to be relatively common sight.