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7. EXCEPTIONS (13 CCR 1201) a. Adverse conditions: A driver may be permitted or required to drive no more than the regulated hours due to snow, sleet, fog, or other adverse conditions of weather, road conditions, or traffic in order to complete the run or to reach a place offering safety. b. Emergencies: In the event of a traffic accident, medical emergency, or disaster, a driver may complete the trip if the trip could reasonably have been completed under normal conditions without exceeding the regulated hours. 8. TRANSPORTATION OF EXTRA EQUIPMENT (13 CCR 1216) Drivers shall not permit any greater quantity of freight, express, or baggage in vehicle than can be safely and conveniently carried without causing discomfort or unreasonable annoyance to passengers. In no event shall aisles, doors, steps, or emergency exits be blocked. Many buses have luggage space either under or in the rear of the bus. In some cases where large items are to be transported, another vehicle is used. Many times, however, special equipment and personal belongings have to be placed in the passenger compartment. In this case, empty seats in the rear of the bus should be used. Store heavy items first and as low as possible. Nothing should extend above the seat back. Use ropes, straps, bungees passed under seats, and across the seat back to secure items on seats. Windows, aisles, and the emergency door shall not be blocked. No person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property. 2. MAXIMUM SPEED LAW (22406 VC) No person shall drive a school bus transporting any school pupil on a highway at a speed in excess of 55 miles per hour. This law applies even on highways which are posted at 65 miles per hour. 3. MINIMUM SPEED LAW (21656 VC) On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, a slow-moving vehicle behind which five (5) or more vehicles are formed in line, shall turn off the roadway at the nearest place designated as a turnout by signs erected by the authority having jurisdiction over the highway, or whenever sufficient area for a safe turnout exists, in order to permit the vehicle following it to proceed. A slow-moving vehicle is one which is proceeding at a rate of speed less than the normal flow of traffic at the particular time and place. 4. SLOW-MOVING VEHICLES (21654 VC) Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits, and vehicle proceeding upon a highway at a speed less than the normal speed proceeding upon a highway at a speed less than the normal speed of the traffic moving in the same direction at such time shall

C. BASIC DRIVING REQUIREMENTS 1. BASIC SPEED LAW(22350 VC)

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Revised 8/9/2023