Portable floodlighting equipment

In a portable lighting equipment of the type having a body mounted on vehicle wheels and an extensible mast for carrying lights and for holding the lights in elevated positions for floodlighting an area adjacent the equipment and wherein the mast when lowered for storage or transportation is pivoted into a position longitudinally of the body and generally parallel to the ground or supporting surface, the improvement which comprises a first extensible mast mounted on the body adjacent one end and toward one side of the body, a second extensible mast mounted adjacent the other end of the body and toward the other side thereof diagonally of the body from the first mast whereby said masts upon being lowered and pivoted more in spaced parallel vertical planes, each of said masts having at its upper end a light assembly having a plurality of lights thereon, said upper ends of said masts in their lowered positions being located adjacent respective opposite ends of said body, and means for positioning said lights to direct light from the assembly on each mast to selected areas about said equipment whereby the area on either side of said equipment may be lighted by both light assemblies or the lights may be directed to selected portions in the entire area surrounding the equipment.