New Law in California called the "Move Over Law"

Yeah, 61TBird ....NOW.. I have a headache! ..........there's so many every year it's impossible to keep accurate numbers....

 

didn't say I was doing 55 in a white out, but if you have been in one(i have many times), how the fuck do you change lanes safely when you can't see shit!!
I can swear too..lol

 

A similar law applies here in Alberta for All emergency vehicles and tow trucks..move over a lane or slow down to 60K and I've seen it enforced a few times.

 

I think it all started here in Pa. Some policemen were killed on the side of the road ,While they were issuing traffic citations ,It's been here ,That law for about a year ..... Just think about it as common courtesy .Just remember their doing a job. No reason to put their life on the line over something that trivial. Im just stating a fact ,Don't really like policemen especially when they are behind me .....But they are needed....

 

Iowa has the same law, and its saved a lot of lives and injury's. Being on the local fire dpt. I'm very great full it is a law.

 

I wonder how much effect it has had on improved safety, unfortunately the true is not necessarily in reported statistics....
On another note, it should be for all vehicles at the side of the road. I was helping my son get his truck off the side of a country road this week and i'd swear fuckers where getting their jollies on scaring the shit out of us. Not one fucker moved out of the adjacent lane to give us some margin of safety.

 

Yea i agree Jethro! me and my dad run a tow truck and we have bright lights and the bright vest etc and ive almost been hit countless times and im 20, and we live in the middle of no were i cant amagine in the big citys! i hope they write lots and lots of tickets!

 

I pull to the other lane in my car and turn the flashers on when I am in my work truck. There have been atleast a half dozen Highway Patrolmen hit by cars the past year.

 

Although this is not exactly what you're discussing here, I think we should try to get the cop away from the road by getting as far from it as possible. Last time I got pulled over I'm doing 94 in a 70 at night. I pulled ass far off the highway as i could, (mostly flat terrain ) turned on my interior light and admitted freely I was going crazy. he just gave me a warning.

Anyone who does not move away from a cop standing near the road is asking for trouble. But on the flip side, most are looking for trouble anyway.

 

This law is for when the idiot doesn't move over and is lucky enough not to hit / kill anyone. I'm sure the punishment for that is still inadequate but it is more than just the $$fine.

 

I had got into the habit of doing that anyway, after I drove 18 wheelers for eight years. Its safer and I didn't want to blast the cop with a gust of wind from the Bernoulli affect caused by the tailor. However, sometimes traffic in other lanes wont let you move over. What are they going to do as far as that is concerned? Still wright the ticket anyway?

 

Okay. You asked how to change lanes safely in a whiteout in response to a post about a trucker who apparently was doing 55 or so in white-out conditions. I'm asking why the hell that clown was going so fast in a whiteout in the first place. Follow along, please. Anyone that dumb to go that fast should get arrested, was he going slower he could have easily changed lanes, or slowed down more.

 

So your state needs money too, huh?
Go figure.

 

they play that game here too dirty old man

saw that played about a month back here in michigan on a 2 lane blvd. about 1/8 of a mile passed a light at an intersection..again nothing in front of him no reason for it, other than to F with the next unsuspecting guy coming his way.

sucker!..didnt work on me..but i wonder how many people he has nailed this way..im sure its a huge fine too..how bogus and un-professional...more like Criminal!

 

ya, I hear what your saying....the white outs I've been caught in, well, ya can't see any lanes. lines, anything but snow. Just hope ya don't find anything till ya come out of the other end...like the Twilight Zone....ya no what I mean........
And usually includes way too icy conditions to be making any radical moves.

 

ya, kind of a shitty bit of enforcement, education does not seem to work with some people. How else to wake them up........

 

You guys are both right...I about shit myself when that truck driver blew by going that fast in a whiteout. Especially since we were extricating a guy and his family (7 people in an extended cab chevy pickup) from a pickup that had just rearended a semi for doing 70 in a whiteout. The driver of the pickup kept saying I never saw him...where did he come from etc etc...

Imagine trhe pickup after hitting the back of the trailer...the semi he hit was doing about 25 in the slow lane due to conditions. like hitting a brick wall at 45 miles per hour.

 

I drove a Wrecker in the Bay Area had mant close calls
had a car on the wrecker CHP behind me all with lights on a car hit the CHP car drove ti up in to the car i was towing put that car up into the Boom
all of that went by me and the CHP while i was signing for the DUI car that was on impound
HWY 101 north of San Fransisco
and many others
jumped in to the back of the truck several times

 

Pretty steep fine.

A cop in IN was hit last night when checking on someone that was having storm issues.

 

No offense taken...like you said....I dont make the laws....HOWEVER the way it's written in FL is all ER vehicles, tow trucks, and public works...basically anything with flashing red, blue or amber lights...

I'm not saying I dont agree with you....however, my department mandates that we stop and assist stranded motorists...EVEN IF we're enroute to a call....obviously if it's a priority (serious) call, it aint gonna happen therefore, in Duval your broke ass on the eside of the road should be getting assistance by red and blues....I mean serious, sometimes I feel like AAA.

That said you also gotta think about your level of risk, I dont know the hard numbers but.......emergency providers spend ALOT of time driving and sitting on the side of a road...I'm in a driving or walking on a roadway for 12 hours a day 4-5 days a week...I've had people drive into me, crash into me....hell I even had a crackhead on a bike crash smackdab in the middle of my rear bumper with my red and blues on....I mean....really?

My point....I dunno if I have one....I got no good justification to why it is what it is...it just is. dunno....sorry

 

I,m normally against more road laws but this one makes sense.We need it down here to many morons on the road.

 

Now we need a "move over law" to get folks going 20mph under the limit OUT of the FAST LANE!

IMO moving over for cars on the shoulder is good practice anyway, I think that this law is a good one, too bad that we drivers as a whole are so damn stupid that we need this law...

Oh well, common sense just ain't that common anymore...

 

We call that common courtesy here in the midwest, but we drive different around here...

 

We have had it for a few years here in BC. Applies to (with flashing lights on) police, fire, ambulance, tow trucks. Good law.

 

As a truck driver for 9 years this is old hat to me. I move over for everyone. I don't think anyone really needs 4 million cubic feet of air blasting them off their feet when they are already in the unfortunate circumstance of being stopped on the side of the freeway.

 

Amerika!

 

Over here they have something similar, not just for cops though, it applies to applies to all uniformed public servant types, just makes punching a cop or a nurse in their workplace that much worse than punching say a bartender, in their workplace...

(and yes, there are people low enough that the law needed to be crafted to protect nurses at work in hospital emergency departments)

 

I'm glad you do, thank you, I don't work road construction anymore, but back when I did i had some truckers so rude, that they would blow past me at 70 or 80, in a construction zone, and lay on the air horns for fun. I've even had people in cars throw things out the windows at us, I guess we were interrupting their commute by trying to WORK, to keep the bridge safe for them to drive on.

 

Amen to that. Even taking a lane & with "move over" laws working on the side of the road is VERY dangerous. I've come close to being hit & have had co-workers get clipped by mirrors etc. It's especially difficult when you have certain CHP officers who's priority is to keep the highway open, not Fire & EMS personnel safety. On any highyway incident we try to have one person who's sole job is to watch traffic & yell at people for going too fast.

 

before i ever got my licence my dad would pull over in to the other lane when we come upon a car truck whatever on the side of the road. i asked him why he did that and his answer was in case some dumbass kid decides to jump out of that car at the wrong time. so i been doing it for over 40 yrs. now.aint hit no one yet.