I didn’t know aluminum rusted

👍 thank you

thank you t mack glad you enjoyed it have a great evening.

haha, i was going to edit that out but then figured surly I'm not the only one who's tape-measures all disappear the second you need one.

iv heard a number of different storys over the years. iv heard it started with a company up in the north east that advertised the fastest delivery of there fresh chickens and they put amber lights on there bumpers to make there trucks stand out. iv also heard that the orange glow of the lights resembles the heat lights in a chicken coop. iv also heard that even way back before then there was problems with chickens being stolen off trucks when driving threw towns late at night so the drivers would hang lanterns on the side so they could see what was going on

I've heard it comes from the shapes of the early marker lights old timey trucks had.

As a trucker myself I always thought chicken lights where called that because at night when them trucks get near you all those lights tend to make you give extra room to them aka be a chicken lol

Thank you

yeah i kinda wanted to do this video as a Christmas video ill turn the Christmas lights on for ya....lol but i had to many irons in the fire.

Lol 👍

Do u have the link for them

north dakota

thank you

You up in North Dakota or south?? I’d ask Nebraska but the accent says further north

@@leerhill i live in north dakota been here sense 2006 but prior to that lived in Kentucky and then Michigan and grew up in California, so yeah been in north dakota long enough to pickup the local accent but have a bit of other regions mixed in as well....lol

i plan on it, unless i run out of time and have to hurry up and get it done.

Parallel

thanks

no the lights on the trailer were factory installed. but that is part of the reason why i did it, i thought it looked a bit silly at night pulling a trailer with 52 lights with a truck that only has minimum lighting on it....lol

That was me hauling asphalt millings off of hwy 2

Yep i was following u till u pulled up to load and i saw u with your dog and u were rolling coal!

its been long enough its not in my purchase history anymore but these appear to be the same ones i got www.ebay.com/itm/20X-12V-3-4-Mini-Round-Amber-Side-Truck-3-LED-SMD-Marker-Bullet-Light-US-Ship/382098111134?hash=item58f6d27a9e:g:pA4AAOSwBiBaoegF

Chicken lights and chrome love that song

It's a tempte superhopper. I use it to haul dry fertilizer, grain and sometimes road salt. Most dry bulk products can be hauled in a hopper bottom trailer

Been on the truck probably 10 months now. No issues yet. But thanks for the heads up

Parallel

I'm pretty sure I said in the video. If not I don't remember.

No

i fished some new wires up threw the back wall of the sleeper to the "work lights" on the back of the cab switched the two white lights out for red. and then used the work light switch for the new lights on the side of the cab. the red lights on the back of the cab still put out plenty of light to be able to see too hook up a trailer in the dark.

lol 👍 i didn't record wiring these lights i do plan on doing some electrical video's soon though

I want to get around 60 lights on my trailer. What wire and fuse size should i use?

yeah it shouldn't be too bad to wire, im probably going to run the wires up threw the sleeper then then in the back wall to two "work" lights on the back of the cab that are already on there own switch and then change those two white lights out for red ones. at least that is my plan at the moment, not going to wire them for real until i Finnish repainting the truck.

the new volvo trucks are really bad for giving you fits if you change anything with the lights, you cant even change standard bulbs out for leds without causing issues.

You said, "dandy" 🏆

Only dot minimum lighting is required to work. It's a myth that any light on the truck has to work. Fmcsa even published a clarification on that

@@Ezrider359 taking the chat warriors to school.... :)

I always give them there own circuit/switch

@@Ezrider359 👍

You have to run your own wires

Dropped power down from the lights on the back of the cab and then a simple parallel circuit between the lights

ran out of time and just had to get it done, I pulled power from the 2 work lights on the back of the cab and changed the two work lights out to red leds.

thank you

lol yeah i had them all day that day....lol

@@stevehansraj4730 that truck has 1.4 on it now and I haven't used it in 3 years this video is about 5 years old I do typically only run about 80k miles a year though.