Interpretation ID: aiam1330
Assistant Chief Engineer
Young Daybrook
Inc.
Plant No. 51
117 North Main Street
Bowling Green
OH 43402;
Dear Mr. Swinghammer: This is in reply to your letter of November 16, 1973 asking about th proper location of identification lamps on one-man truck-tractor cabs that are offset from the vertical centerline of the vehicle. In your view 'when the Law is applied to one (1) man cabs, the possibility exists that oncoming traffic would interpret the truck as not being in its proper traffic lane.'; As you have pointed out, front identification lamps are required b Table II of Standard No. 108 to be 'as close as practicable to the tope(sic) of the vehicle. . . as close as practicable to the vertical centerline. . . .' The 'vertical centerline' is that of the vehicle which is usually that of the cab as well. However, an identification lamp arrangement around the vertical centerline of an offset cab is considered to meet the standard.; We are not aware that an actual safety problem is presented by th current practice of mounting identification lamps around the centerline of offset cabs, and the fact that you produce less than 1,000 vehicles per year does not relieve you of the requirement of providing these lamps.; Yours truly, Richard B. Dyson, Assistant Chief Counsel