A 3-minute lesson from the Kansas course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Buses, trolleys and light rail stop often and hide pedestrians. In rural Kansas you'll also meet farm equipment, horse-drawn buggies and riders moving far slower than you. Patience and space prevent most crashes.
Know the rule
Unlike a school bus, you don't have to stop for a transit bus picking up or dropping off passengers unless you're behind it. Watch for passengers crossing and buses pulling into traffic.
A fluorescent or reflective orange-and-red triangle on the rear of an animal-drawn vehicle, farm equipment or construction equipment means it travels less than 25 mph.
Farm machinery can be wide enough to fill more than one lane, usually lacks turn signals, may swing left before turning right, and usually travels under 25 mph. Its operator can't hear you coming.
Animal-drawn vehicles have the same rights and rules as motor vehicles. Pass with caution, never honk or rev your engine, and expect left turns into fields and driveways.
Horseback riders ride single file near the right edge. Drive at a reasonable speed and distance from the horse; don't honk or rev loudly when approaching or passing.
On a rural highway you come up behind a combine showing an orange-and-red triangle. It's going under 25 mph and may pull left before turning right. Hang back, and pass only when you're sure it's safe.
Check your understanding
Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.
A fluorescent or reflective orange-and-red triangle on the back of a vehicle means it is traveling less than what speed?
15 mph
45 mph
35 mph
25 mph
Answer: 25 mph
This slow-moving vehicle emblem indicates the vehicle is traveling less than 25 mph, such as farm equipment or animal-drawn vehicles.
