If you're reading this, you probably already know LED lights deliver increased brightness, longer lifespans, lower energy use, attractive looks, and some enjoyable bonus features over traditional incandescent bulbs. In this article, we discuss how you can enjoy these LED benefits in the form of front/rear turn signals, tail lights, side marker lights, fog lights, cab roof lights, and more. In addition, flexible light strips with color-changing ability can create dazzling custom looks anywhere on top of, underneath, or inside your truck.
Thanks to high manufacturing standards when it comes to fit and dimensional accuracy, it's easy to swap any of the vehicle-specific LED lights we offer in place of original ones. The same goes for universal-fit LED lights available in standardized sizes that many truck makers use.
Note: If you're interested in replacement LED headlights for semi-trucks, we invite you to read our related article on that subject.
To help you navigate our product choices and quickly find what you prefer, we've set up checkboxes along the left side of the screen that narrow search results to products with one or multiple product features you select.
Features & Benefits Of LED Bulbs
LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) are chemically treated transistors that glow when electricity is passed through them. Because very little power is wasted creating unnecessary heat energy, LEDs burn cool and use only a fraction of the electricity that incandescent and halogen bulbs do - producing far more lumens (a measurement of light output) per watt.
Because LEDs have no filament to get consumed during use, they last many times longer than traditional bulbs - often up to 50,000 hours compared to 2,000 hours. It's not difficult to see that LEDs almost never need changing, which eliminates a lot of time-consuming maintenance and cost.
LED Turn Signals
We'll start in our LED turn signal lights section where a variety of turn signal assemblies containing LED bulbs are found. We recommend using check boxes under the "Lens Color" heading for amber/front and red/rear. Many of these lights are universal fit designs available in various shapes and sizes that will fit in a number of trucks. Some universal fit signal lights are even mounted on a inch-long post. We also offer individual replacement turn signal bulbs.
Amber Turn Signals for Front
Need ideas? We recommend a moment to look through LED offerings from Race Sport, Rigid Industries, Betts Industries, SafeTruck, Buyers, United Pacific, Truck Lite, Grote, Maxxima, Nova-Lux, and Peterson.
Red Turn Signals for Rear
For red rear LED turn signals, we've got variations from ARB, Reese Towpower, Grand General, J.W. Speaker, and Trux just to name a few.
Sequential Turn Signals
If you like the idea of rear turn signal lights that can "sequentially" scroll their lit area across the width of the light when activated, we've got several variations by United Pacific and Grand General. Not only do sequential blinkers look great, they enhance safety by being much more visible to other drivers.
LED Bumper Corner Lights
If you're tired of frontal parking mishaps devaluing your truck and causing property damage, we've got an effective solution - front bumper corner marker lights. These are tall stainless steel rods with an LED light atop each one. Mounted on left and right bumper corners, their lit area is positioned high enough so that any driver can clearly see where the front edges of the truck are. We recommend the Bores LED Bumper Guides and the Grand General 51" Amber LED Parking Guides (check Product Options fields for color selections).
LED Tail Lights
In our LED Tail Lights section, we make it easy to customize your search through tail light units with a choice of housing background colors (black, white, or chrome) and lens cover colors (red, clear, or smoke/tinted). Since many states may outlaw tinted signal lights, we recommend checking with local laws before installing them.
If you prefer lights that are nicely framed with a light bar around the perimeter, we've got a few of those as well. Just use check boxes under the "fiber optic accent" to see available choices.
LED Fog Lights
The superior power of LED lighting literally goes a long way to make driving safer and more comfortable when it's applied to semi-truck fog lights. Because fog typically floats above the surface of the road, LEDs mounted low cast their light underneath the fog level to reduce blinding glare that high-mounted headlights would otherwise create.
With more light to see the road better, drivers can focus on avoiding uneven surfaces, high curbs, road edge dropoffs, and other risks that become obscured as fog thickens. And since fog lights are partially offset to the side, they're more effective at illuminating both edges of the road where woodland animals lurk.
In our LED Fog Lights section, you'll find fog lights with many of the same features that full-size LED headlamps have. Checkboxes in this section allow you to choose fog lights with (or without) halo rings and projector beams. Some even feature mini DRLs.
If you're looking for long, horizontal lights with multiple LEDs, we've got universal fit fog lights by Lumen, XPrite, Anzo, Hella, DS18, EVO Lighting, and Extreme Dimensions. Some are described as "daytime running lights", but they serve the purpose of fog lights equally well when mounted in or below your truck's bumper.
If your truck uses standard round LED housings, we've got the sizes you need from ARB, Dorman, J.W. Speaker (choose black or chrome housing background), Nova-Lux, Putco, Trux (squared-off edges), and United Pacific (with DRL). Round fog lights with projector bulbs are available from Lumen, Sylvania, AutoTecknic, Spec-D, Hella, J.W. Speaker, and Nova-Lux.
LED Cab Roof Lights
5 forward-facing amber cab roof lights are mandated by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Authority on vehicles measuring over 80 inches wide - a law that affects all commercial heavy-service trucks and some heavy-duty pickup trucks. The purpose of these lights is to let other drivers know that a wide vehicle is approaching on a dark night, or at least a larger pickup that's capable of towing a wide trailer.
We haven't left these out of our LED product offerings. We've got universal-fit LED cab roof lights from Atomic LED (includes strobe feature), United Pacific (many varieties exist), and Pacer Performance (choose chrome or white bases). If you prefer vehicle-specific light sets, take a look at what we've got from Recon (many tints & colors available in product options), Atomic LED, and Trux.
LED Light Pods & Strips That Can Be Mounted Anywhere
In our Underbody LED Underbody Lights section, we've got a choice of compact lighting options to jazz up any cab and trailer. Use these lights to create your own unique visual effects anywhere on top of, inside, or underneath your rig. Location isn't a problem, because they're flexible and durable enough to survive almost anywhere. Typically, a smartphone or an included remote control is used to operate the lights.
If you're interested in multi-color versions, use checkboxes along the side of the screen accordingly, and make your final selection within the Product Options field. You'll get lights with a huge array of colored LEDs which can be set to blend into one another or change in fast-blinking patterns.
Basic "Rock" Lights
"Rock" lights represent best value and consist of simple, corrosion-resistant pod housings with LED lights underneath a clear or opaque lens cover. Durable and rigid, these are meant to be mounted anywhere on top of, underneath, or inside your truck. We offer a great choice of remote-control rock lights from Lumen, iStar, KC HiLiTES, Morimoto, Lifetime LED Lights, XKGlow, Metra, and Xprite.
LED Strips
In our LED Strips and Tubes section, you'll find a range of flexible strips fitted with LEDs in a variety of lengths. Choose basic single-color versions for economy, or color-changing ones which can do more. These are suitable for use on just about any contoured surface inside or outside the vehicle.
For example, the Lumen App Controlled RGB LED Underbody Kit can use any Android or iPhone smart device as a remote control, and includes two 36" strips and two 48" strips containing a total of 240 LED chips. At the touch of a button, these light up in a rainbow of colors and patterns. We've also got similar smart app kits from XKGlow and Race Sport. If you prefer an LED lighting kit that operates only with an included remote, we've got great values from Oracle Lighting and Vision X.
How about the unbroken look of neon lighting without actually having to deal with actual neon tubes? Take a look at the PlasmaGlow GloWire Neon LED Strip and XKGlow Fiber Optic Multicolor LED Accent Light Kit, which are LEDs contained within bendable fiber optic tubes that create eye-catching displays anywhere.
This wraps up our look at LED lights for trucks. Note that on our website, we also offer related products such as LED headlights, individual LED bulbs, trailer lights, interior lights, and more.
We also encourage you to check through other sections of our website where you'll find great products such as interior accessories, exterior accessories, backup cameras, seat-top mini organizer desks, lights & bulbs, mechanical repair parts, audio electronics, truck tires, tire chains, aluminum alloy wheels, and so much extra! Should you have questions about anything on our website, we'll be happy to help on the phone any day of the week!