Interpretation ID: aiam0560
Manager Engineering Services
Truck Body and Equipment Association
Inc.
5530 Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 1220
Washington
DC 20015;
Dear Mr. Tatarski: This is in reply to your letter of December 21, 1971, to Lawrence R Schneider requesting an interpretation on the mounting of front identification lamps.; Standard No. 108 requires that identification lamps be mounted 'a close as practicable to the top of the vehicle' (Table II). The 'vehicle' is the vehicle as completed, and not the incomplete vehicle. Therefore, if the 'top' of the vehicle, *i*.*e*., the highest point, is a location other than the cab, the identification lamps must be mounted at the 'top', and not on the cab, if it is practicable to do so. Generally, manufacturers of van-body vehicles have found it practicable to mount identification lamps on the van body. Modified lighting diagram O-1 which you enclosed originally depicted the correct location of identification lamps for a truck with a van body.; If the manufacturer of the cab portion of a truck has place identification lamps on the cab, the lamps need not be removed when the lamps necessary for conformance are added at the 'top.'; Sincerely, Richard B. Dyson, Assistant Chief Counsel