Who We Are

Family owned since 1935

J.W. Speaker designs, engineers, and manufactures LED lighting for vehicles from one campus in Germantown, Wisconsin.

For 90 years we have built lights for the vehicles that work the hardest: on-highway trucks, buses, motorcycles, agricultural and construction equipment, snow plows. Optical, electrical, software, and mechanical engineering sit under the same roof as tooling, SMT lines, and final assembly, so a light can go from first drawing to first shipment without leaving the building.

Aerial view of the J.W. Speaker campus in Germantown, Wisconsin
J.W. Speaker 90th anniversary
Certifications

We set the gold standard

Certified for every market you sell into. Compliance is engineered in from the first drawing, not audited in at the end. We design lights that meet or exceed:

  • The Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
  • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Transport Division's regulations
  • SAE International engineering standards
  • Transport Canada
  • The Australian Design Rules (ADR)
  • Classified by the Electrotechnical Commission Ingress Protection (IP) Code
DOT certified ECE certified SAE standards Transport Canada compliant CCC certified, China AIS certified, India VSCC certified, Taiwan IP69K sealed
Where Our Lights Run

Built for vehicles that work

Heavy truck with LED headlights at night
On-Highway
City transit bus
Transit
Motorcycle with LED headlight
Powersports
Compliance Audit · jwspeaker.com · July 2026

We audited the current site

Before designing this demo we ran the live jwspeaker.com through a compliance review. Three risks stand out: tracking that ignores consent, a privacy policy that does not match the site, and ADA accessibility failures.

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