2006 California Motor Vehicle's Handbook Updates

[RICHARD]

5. Never get in the way of an older car that needs extensive bodywork, especially with Mexican or out-of-state plates. With no insurance, the other operator probably has nothing to lose.

Why is this so timely?

[Edwina's Secretary]

What about the rule of NEVER tying down any load being carried....furniture and other household goods...ladders, buckets, shovels and other hardware? This ensures a constant flow of items on the highway to create hazards....

[Barbara]

Not hazards, but challenges to test your reflexes.
BTW I thought these rules were German law

[davidpizzica]

You have just described Pittsburgh drivers to a "T"!

[DJFyrewolf36]

LOL having just been on the funhouse of CA freeways...

California drivers are kind of their own breed (the bad ones are anyhow)

[RICHARD]

What about the rule of NEVER tying down any load being carried....furniture and other household goods...ladders, buckets, shovels and other hardware? This ensures a constant flow of items on the highway to create hazards....

Listen to the news/traffic reports in the area around the first of the month.Everyone moves and you hear about some funny crap on the roads!

[moosmom]

How about driving with your signal light on forever to confuse the other drivers.


Remind me to FLY to California if I ever want to visit.

[pnance]

Listen to the news/traffic reports in the area around the first of the month.Everyone moves and you hear about some funny crap on the roads!

A radio station down here once counted how many ladders they reported on in their traffic report for a month. Turned out it was a minumum of one per day usually more.

[Edwina's Secretary]

A radio station down here once counted how many ladders they reported on in their traffic report for a month. Turned out it was a minumum of one per day usually more.

I try and explain this Californian tradition to folks back east but they just don't believe me. Why bother buying a ladder? Just wait for the traffic report!

[pnance]

I try and explain this Californian tradition to folks back east but they just don't believe me. Why bother buying a ladder? Just wait for the traffic report!

You even get options, Hwy 163 has a metal ladder, Hwy 8 a wood, etc.....just pick the appropriate highway it's like shopping at a drive through Home Depot..

[Lady's Human]

Though there is one city that I had to laugh at that's NOT in caleefornia.

Driving through Cleveland on the interstate, I came upon signs that state :


"In a fender bender? Please move your vehicles out of the travel lane"

These weren't billlboards, these were DOT highway signs. Hmmmm, let's see, I had a fender bender, so I think I'll sit here in the passing lane and block traffic until cops get here?