A 3-minute lesson from the Oregon course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
A pickup with a camper, a motor home, or any vehicle pulling a trailer is longer, higher and wider than a car. It takes longer to accelerate and stop, and needs more room to turn. Oregon also limits who may ride in trailers and how much you may tow.
Know the rule
Large vehicles and vehicles towing a trailer take longer to accelerate and to stop, and require more room to turn.
You're pulling a boat with your motor home and want to add a small utility trailer behind the boat. Oregon allows only one towed boat, trailer or vehicle, so the second one must stay home.
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.
Large vehicles and vehicles towing trailers generally need:
A fifth-wheel trailer carrying passengers must have all of the following EXCEPT:
A separate driver's license endorsement
Safety glazing on windows and doors
A way for passengers to signal the driver
An unobstructed exit that opens from inside and outside
Answer: A separate driver's license endorsement
A fifth-wheel trailer carrying passengers needs safety glazing, a way to signal the driver and an unobstructed exit that opens both ways; the handbook lists no license endorsement.