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mowermech
Dec 12, 2017Explorer
Executive wrote:
California, with all it's idiot laws and non-laws, actually has one of the best definitions. Your vehicle, whether towing a trailer or car or whatever, must be able to stop within a specified distance at a specified speed. If it does not, you're in violation. That's paraphrased, of course. For you purists, refer to California Vehicle Code 25454 (a). Slowly, California is trying to make sense of some of their laws. i.e. They're slowly changing all their towing restrictive speed signs to simply read, "All vehicles while towing" 55MPH...which leaves very little to interpretation.....Dennis
Actually, the last time I looked at the California Braking Performance Law, they give you 5 feet farther to stop a "combination of vehicles" than most other states (45 feet vs. 40 feet) and the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) (also 40 feet)
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