This includes an exemption from traveling only on the right hand side of the road, traveling in bike paths, traveling down one-way streets the wrong way, stopping behind a row of diagonally parked cars and using up more than their half of the roadway.
#Garbage truck ride on code
Pursuant to Vehicle Code Section 21509 certain rules of the road do not apply to the operation of a rubbish or garbage truck while they are actually engaged in the collection of rubbish or garbage within a business or residence district, if the front turn signal lamps at each side of the vehicle are being flashed simultaneously and the rear turn signal lamps at each side of the vehicle are being flashed simultaneously. They have greater freedoms in some instances and greater restrictions in others. Garbage trucks are treated differently than passenger vehicles under the Vehicle Code. This creates a whole new host of risks associated with additional decreased visibility in large vehicles that already have many blind spots. These vehicles have also changed so that the operator is often standing while driving on the curb side rather than sitting towards the middle of the road like passenger vehicles. Over the last decade the trucks have changed so that they no longer involve a two person crew but, instead, we are all required to use containers that are handled by a single operator. Many people get annoyed that garbage trucks pick up the trash early in the morning noisily waking them from their slumber but these pre-dawn hours are designed to minimize interactions between the trucks and the traveling public who are, for the most part, still asleep. Garbage trucks do not travel long distances, instead spending the majority of their time in neighborhoods – so the risk ratio is increased as these vehicles travel in highly populated areas. During a recent study it was showed that on average, garbage trucks kill more pedestrians and cyclist per 100 million miles driven than almost any other vehicle on the road. What’s the deal with garbage trucks are they somehow special?”Arturo the facts of the accident last week are still being investigated so the answer to this question will not address that specific tragedy but, instead, will address the issue of the laws covering garbage/refuse haulers. They backed up one day and hit my Auntie’s car and took off.
I see them driving up the wrong side of the street and basically doing whatever they want to. They are really big trucks and hard to see around. These garbage trucks don’t seem to think that they have to drive like you and me. From Hunters Point asks “Last week I heard about a garbage truck that killed a bicyclist.