Patent ID: 7413329

Claim:
A preventative maintenance undercarriage lighting system for a truck to increase visibility in poor lighting conditions for visually performing safety inspections under the truck, the system comprising: a plurality of lights mounted on the undercarriage of a truck adjacent to parts of the truck requiring regular visual inspection to cast light thereon to enhance visual inspection; a control module wired to the lights for operating the lights; an ignition trigger wired to the control module to turn on the lights when the truck is started; a manual trigger device wired to the control module, the manual trigger device mounted on an outside portion of the truck for a user to activate the plurality of lights while the user is outside of a cab of the truck; an automatic timing control module wired to the control module to control the amount of time the lights stay lighted; an indicator light in the cab wired to the control module to remind a user that the undercarriage light is on and remind the user to perform a walk around inspection.