Roadwise States Louisiana Driving lessons Guide, service & incident signs Louisiana driving lesson · Signs, Signals & Markings
Guide, service & incident signs A 3-minute lesson from the Louisiana course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Read time 3 minutes
Course unit Signs, Signals & Markings
Checkpoint questions 3
Source pages 34, 35 Guide signs help you find your way: green or brown destination signs, blue service signs, and route markers whose shape shows the road type. Temporary fluorescent pink incident signs warn of closures and detours from unplanned events.
Know the rule
Guide signs are square or rectangular and green, brown or blue. They show intersecting roads, cities and towns, and points of interest.
Handbook p. 34 ↗ Know the rule
Destination signs are green or brown with white letters, showing direction and distance to cities, airports, and state or parish/county lines.
Handbook p. 34 ↗ Know the rule
If the word EXIT is on the left side of an exit sign, the exit ramp is on the left; if it's on the right side, the ramp is on the right.
Handbook p. 34 ↗ Green destination and exit signs Know the rule
Brown signs can mark special areas such as national parks, historical areas and museums.
Handbook p. 35 ↗ Brown sign: point of interest Know the rule
Service signs are blue with white letters or symbols. They show rest areas, gas stations, hotels and hospitals.
Handbook p. 35 ↗ Service sign: hospital Service sign: fuel Know the rule
Route number signs use shape and color to show the road type: interstate, U.S., state, city, county or local. Plan with a map or GPS and follow route signs so you don't get lost.
Handbook p. 35 ↗ Interstate route marker U.S. route marker Know the rule
Incident signs are temporary, fluorescent pink with black letters. They warn you to be prepared to stop or that a road is closed or detoured after a crash, natural disaster, hazmat spill or other unplanned incident.
Handbook p. 35 ↗ Incident sign: be prepared to stop Incident sign: detour Put it into practice
A green exit sign for your town has EXIT printed on its left side. Your ramp leaves from the left, so plan ahead to be in position on that side.
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.
On a green exit sign, the word 'EXIT' appears on the left side. What does this tell you? The exit ramp is on the left The exit ramp is on the right The exit is closed ahead The exit is for trucks only Answer: The exit ramp is on the left
If 'Exit' is written on the left side of the sign, the exit lane or ramp is to the left.
Handbook p. 34 ↗ A blue sign with a large white letter H means: A hotel is at this exit A historical area is ahead A hazardous materials route A hospital is nearby Answer: A hospital is nearby
Blue service signs show services such as hospitals; the H symbol marks a hospital.
Handbook p. 35 ↗ The shape and color of route number signs show whether a road is an interstate, U.S., state, or local route. True False Answer: True
Route number signs indicate the type of roadway by their shape and color.
Handbook p. 35 ↗ Previous lesson Regulatory signs Next lesson Traffic signals More in Signs, Signals & Markings About the source Roadwise’s Louisiana course uses the driver handbook edition supplied with this study pack. This lesson cites source pages 34, 35. The linked PDF is a third-party mirror of the handbook, rather than a government-hosted page.
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