Strobe lights for trucks

First off, if you will be working around any construction jobs that use a rotating laser, they would appreciate it if you stay away from strobes. It's a constant battle on some jobs where the Super wants grades but gets pissed when I talk the roller hand into turning off his strobe. Strobes mess with the laser sensor, LED's do not.

I like the mini lightbar similar to this:
http://www.strobesnmore.com/Strobes-N-More-Galaxy-Mini-Next-Generation-LED-Lightbar.html

and two of these on the back of the camper for when the camper door is up or the truck is parked nose down making it hard to see the top lightbar.
http://www.strobesnmore.com/Strobes-N-More-E3-Super-LED.html

My lightbar is mounted on the camper close to the front for good forward visibility. The two LED's for the back are still in the center console and have been for a year. I will get around to mounting them someday. :-$

James

I'd go for the strobes.

That being said, Whelen makes good products. This is probably more than you'd like to spend but these light bars do the trick for the rear quite nicely.

We use small two color LED flashing strobes. You don't really notice them unless they are turned on. They are about $ 50 each and come with a five year replacement warranty.

We use lights similar to this kit. Mounted in front and rear light housings.
http://www.amazon.com/Wolo-8004-1CCCC-Lightning-Supply-Strobe/dp/B0036FJ804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423223209&sr=8-1&keywords=wolo+strobe+light+kit

Whelen Light Bar

Whelen LED Strobe lights.

I wanted to have bright flashers to be able to turn on while working along the roadway so I went with a full width Whelen light bar (which is not cheap).

They work excellent for my original intended purpose of warning cars when I am pulling off the road to measure or locate something.

They are very bright. If you forget to turn them off, cars coming in the opposite direction will actually pull over to let you go by! I'm not kidding.

The biggest drawback is that they are very annoying to work around, especially if it is an overcast day. Working at night would be impossible without seizures or migraine headaches. Even turning them on to provide additional warning for a flagging station results in pissed off workers. They need to have a different mode that is less excited.

Another story about bright LED's. I purchased a set of custom LED tail lights for my 4-wheeler. They consist of about 25 LED's each, housed in a CNC'd alum. housing. Problem is - they are so bright, you could use them as a search light. Nobody wants to ride behind me because they see a huge red spot on the back of their eye lids every time they blink after seeing my tail lights. I had to paint over the LED's with red paint to get them to be tolerable.

Long story short, brighter is not always better.