I believe Arizona has recently passed this same law, about changing lanes when
emergency vehicles are parked on the side of the highway.
Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Brennan" <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: Watch Those Out of State Plates and Don't Take any Crap

> Lack of knowledge about the laws never goes well in court...
>
> Many states have the rules that you should either move over a lane or
> slow down to 45 if there is an emergency vehicle on the shoulder.
> Many truck drivers just extend this to move over if there is ANY
> vehicle on the shoulder.
>
> Never heard about rack rules on the sides. On the front and rear if
> it extends beyond the bumpers you are usually required to flag it
> some how (red flag in Virginia I believe).
>
> In Virginia there are highway signs that say "Slower Traffic Keep
> Right". Which is routinely ignored by folks who think "I'm doing the
> speed limit, and nobody should be faster than that". I watched a cop
> come up on a car in the left lane who wouldn't move out of the way (4
> lanes of highway too). He turned on his lights and the vehicle STILL
> wouldn't move out the way. He finally passed the guy on the right. He
> would have been well within the law to pull the guy over for failing
> to obey a highway sign (the appropriate law in this case). Wish he
> had too.
>
> There are other rules in Virginia, like not crossing a solid white
> line. At notorious back up spots, you'll see cars cross onto the
> should to get on to the on ramp and scoot ahead a dozen cars. And
> periodically the cops will stake out the area and ticket the folks
> doing it. Makes me feel good that queue jumpers are occassionally
> caught and fined.
>
> I won't even go into the folks who violate the HOV lanes (there are
> so many repeat offenders for that that the state has increased the
> fines twice in the last few years.)
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Max Wellhouse wrote:
>
> > I was pulled over by an Iowa Highway Patrol officer(I have Iowa
> > plates BTW) last spring for"failing to change lanes on the interstate
> > to avoid emergency vehicles on the side of the road"  blah blah
> > blah.  I'd never heard of that rule and the emergency vehicle in
> > question was his brownish colored unmarked cop cruiser that had
> > barely discernable yellow lights blinking from the rear window.  It
> > was daytime and bight out and hard to see themn in the first
> > place.  Maybe those evil kayaks I had on my roof racks were the red
> > flag?  While we had a nice long chat( I can kiss ass with the best of
> > them if it will save me some money) he gets out his code book and
> > looks up what constitutes a legal roof rack!!.  Turns out in Iowa,
> > your roof rack can't stick out more than the width of the vehicle
> > body on the driver's side, but can stick out 18" on the passenger
> > side!!!!!  Who the hell wrote that law much less voted for it?  I got
> > off with a warning and now I know better..... I think.
> >
> > DM&FS
>