Stringer
Senior Member
- Joined
- Apr 27, 2015
- Posts
- 219
- Reaction score
- 239
- Location
- Stockdale, PA
- Ram Year
- 2014
- Engine
- 5.7 Hemi
Wow those laws are dumb lol. In MA ANY blue light is Police, red is fire/ems. you cannot run blue lights on your POV UNLESS you are a cop and your on a detail or something. Most decked out volunteer in my town have Red/White. and you MOVE out of their way or there will be hell to pay if a cop sees you. Basicaly these people are saving some ones life get the hell out of their way. and our police cars are 100% blue now, maybe one red light, but its simple here. Blue is cops, Red is EMS and all are permitted to respond code 2, or 3 - even POV.
My strobes are Amber and white as I am not affiliated with anything. I just like to have them in case of roadside emergencies or bad snow storms but its not illegal to have them. It is illegal to have red or blue flashing lights in this state if you dont have a permit even if they are not lit, owning them and mounting them is 100% illegal.
your truck to me looks like an undercover cop car, you would move traffic like a boss in my state with that set up haha
Most people do yield to me as a common courtesy - I might just be going to their house. Those that don't, I just have to stay behind them until I get to where I'm going. Our laws regarding this are out of date and are in drastic need of being updated. There have been petitions going around to change the laws, some saying make it so we can have a siren - I don't even care about that honestly. My biggest reason is for on scene safety, especially on the Interstate. I travel a 40 mile portion of I-70 constantly where the most accidents happen out of the Interstate's entire nationwide stretch. But since PA isn't even competent enough to pass a state budget, I doubt anything happens with the law.
WTAE Channel 4 news did aired a report recently where PSP is not just cracking down on personal vehicles but department trucks as well. Some department chiefs vehicles in the area have similar lighting setups like my truck and are now being told to remove them. Even a City of Pittsburgh parking enforcement vehicle was stopped for having an amber LED dash light instead of an exterior mounted light bar.