If I’d been a traffic cop I’d have issued the truck a warning
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That is the common sense way of handling things.
OTOH, maybe this isn’t the first warning or encounter.
In today’s litigious society the people have taken ‘breaks’ away from the Police/Courts as if they don’t follow the ‘law’ to the ‘T’ they stand a chance of being sued.
Of course, there are far too many laws on the books BECAUSE the Police or Courts tried to bend a standing law to fit the situation at hand.
Lawyers won’t let you get away with that.
Interesting line or aside in the ‘article’ about how times are bad and people feel better seeing the truck decked out.
Don’t know if I was hungry that ‘seeing the truck’ would make me feel any less hungry - if really hungry or cynical may say the cost, time & effort etc may be put to better use.
What I said would be within the scope of most existing regulations. Some jurisdictions are a little more anal retentive about lights (like bumper mounted fogs) that aren’t blessed under their regimes, and require them to be physically covered.
And who ever successfully sued the police to get them to crack down on anything? Puh-leeze.