Pole and utility vehicles/trailers – North Dakota

Taillamps

Every pole trailer must be equipped with at least one taillamp mounted on the rear, which must emit a red light plainly visible from 1,000 feet to the rear.

Display of warning devices by disabled vehicle

Whenever any pole trailer 80 inches or more in overall width or 30 feet or more in overall length is stopped upon a roadway or adjacent shoulder, the driver must immediately actuate vehicular hazard warning signal lamps.

Vehicle hazard warning signal lamp requirements

After January 1, 1980, every pole trailer 80 inches or more in overall width or 30 feet or more in overall length must be equipped with lamps meeting the requirements of N.D. Cent. Code § 39-21-19.1.

Vehicular lamps used to display warning to the front, must:

• Be mounted at the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable;
• Display simultaneously flashing white or amber lights, or any shade of color between white and amber.

Vehicular lamps used to display warning to the rear, must:

• Be mounted at the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable; and
• Show simultaneously flashing amber or red lights, or any shade of color between amber and red.

Key definitions

Pole trailer: Every vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach, or pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle, and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads such as poles, pipes, or structural members capable, generally, of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.