A 3-minute lesson from the Nebraska course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Guide and service signs help you find your way, and work zone devices protect you and road crews. In Nebraska, black-on-orange always means a work zone.
Guide sign
Special signs:
Guide signs (green and white): direction and distance; diagrams for interchange exits and entrances
Service signs (blue and white): hospitals, gas, food, lodging and other services
Route markers: used alone or with arrow signs mounted below
Handicapped Parking: spaces reserved for those with handicapped parking privileges
Dynamic message signs: changeable messages on conditions, routes, construction and incidents
Black-on-orange signs are reserved strictly for work zones. They appear before and inside the zone and give enough advance notice for any action, like changing lanes or slowing down. Don't wait until the last minute.
An orange diamond ahead reads ROAD WORK 1500 FT. Stay alert, slow down, and be ready to stop or change lanes as the work zone signs direct. If a flagger holds up STOP, wait until you're waved on.
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.
The slow-moving vehicle emblem must be displayed on vehicles that travel:
35 MPH or less
25 MPH or less
15 MPH or less
45 MPH or less
Answer: 25 MPH or less
Vehicles traveling 25 mph or less must display the slow-moving emblem.
