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<blockquote data-quote="104Feeder" data-source="post: 1278277" data-attributes="member: 42554">In a combination vehicle, you have to have at least one working stop lamp and both turn signals only on the rearmost trailer (day or night) and one working tail light (dusk to dawn)or it&#039;s considered &quot;out of service&quot; so he would have been legal with the dolly lights not working. That said, nothing prevents a State or Fed DOT person from saying you can&#039;t continue without all the lights working, even though technically it&#039;s a &quot;fix-it ticket&quot; which allows you to continue to the nearest repair facility. Myself, I&#039;ll forgo the dolly if necessary but not when I am at the building where I can switch dollies or have one fixed. I like 360 degrees of visibility and have every light on all day long to increase the chance that I&#039;ll be seen. In overweight situations they&#039;ve asked us &quot;if we can fix it&quot; which you always answer yes and then Dispatch will send out a driver or two to take one of the boxes or redistribute to an empty trailer. I would assume that is what could happen in this case. In my State they would probably let you drop one of the boxes and/or dolly and continue on if they were in a good mood and you had someone in route. Generally there are tow facilities nearby every scale location so that is an option too. The Driver is ultimately the &quot;captain of the ship&quot; and has to make the determination of whether to continue.&nbsp; Here is a handy link to the most current out of service criteria: <a href="http://read.dmtmag.com/i/119917" target="_blank">http://read.dmtmag.com/i/119917</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="104Feeder, post: 1278277, member: 42554"] In a combination vehicle, you have to have at least one working stop lamp and both turn signals only on the rearmost trailer (day or night) and one working tail light (dusk to dawn)or it's considered "out of service" so he would have been legal with the dolly lights not working. That said, nothing prevents a State or Fed DOT person from saying you can't continue without all the lights working, even though technically it's a "fix-it ticket" which allows you to continue to the nearest repair facility. Myself, I'll forgo the dolly if necessary but not when I am at the building where I can switch dollies or have one fixed. I like 360 degrees of visibility and have every light on all day long to increase the chance that I'll be seen. In overweight situations they've asked us "if we can fix it" which you always answer yes and then Dispatch will send out a driver or two to take one of the boxes or redistribute to an empty trailer. I would assume that is what could happen in this case. In my State they would probably let you drop one of the boxes and/or dolly and continue on if they were in a good mood and you had someone in route. Generally there are tow facilities nearby every scale location so that is an option too. The Driver is ultimately the "captain of the ship" and has to make the determination of whether to continue. Here is a handy link to the most current out of service criteria: [url]http://read.dmtmag.com/i/119917[/url] [/QUOTE]

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