West Virginia driving lesson · Signs, Signals, and Markings
Work zone and guide signs
A 3-minute lesson from the West Virginia course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Orange means work zone: slow down, watch for flaggers, and follow the channeling devices. Guide signs, by contrast, just tell you where you are and how to get where you're going; their colors tell you what kind of information they give.
Know the rule
Orange is the basic color for construction and maintenance devices. Most work area signs are diamond-shaped; a few are rectangular.
Diagonal stripes on a barricade or panel point where to pass: stripes sloping down to the right mean bear right; sloping down to the left mean bear left.
In a work zone you see a barricade with stripes sloping down to the left. Bear to the left to pass. If a flagger then holds up a paddle reading SLOW, proceed slowly past the work area.
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.
What color are most construction and maintenance signs and devices?
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Answer: Orange
Orange is the basic color used for construction and maintenance signs and devices.
