Traffic Flashcards
-A fire or public vehicle.
-A public or private ambulance operated by a person licensed by the Department of State Health Services
-Emergency medical service vehicle
-authorized under an emergency medical services provider license issued by the Department of State Health Services
- operating under a contract with an emergency service district that requires the emergency medical services provider to respond to emergency calls with the vehicle.
-Municipal department or public service corporation emergency vehicle
-A county owned or county leased emergency management vehicle
-Private vehicle of a volunteer firefighter or a certified emergency medical service employee or volunteer when responding to a fire alarm or medical emergency
- An industrial emergency response vehicle
- A vehicle of a blook bank or a tissue bank when making emergency deliveries
-a vehicle used for law enforcement purposes
-A private vehicle of an employee or volunteer of a county emergency management division in a country with a population of 46,500 and less than 48,000 that is designated as an authorized emergency vehicle by the commissioner court of the county
Authorized Emergency Vehicle
Device that a person may ride
-Capable of being ridden solely by using human power
-2 tandem wheels at least one which is more than 14 inches in diameter
Bicycle
Used to transport persons and designed to accommodate 10 passengers including the operator or a motor vehicle other than a taxi cab designed to be used to transports persons for compensations
Bus
equipped with fully operated pedals and an eclectic motor of fewer than 750 watts and with a top assisted speed of 28 miles per hour of less
Electric bicycle
Designed and used primarily as a farm implement to draw an implement of husbandry, including a plow or a mowing machine
Farm Tractor
A vehicle other than a passenger car or truck that is designed and adapted for use as a farm implement, machinery, or tool for filling the soil
-a towed vehicle that transports to the field and spreads fertilizer or agricultural chemicals or
-a motor vehicle designed and adapted to deliver feed to livestock
Implement of Husbandry
trailer or semitrailer, other than a towable recreational vehicle that
- is transportable on a highway in one or more sections
-is less than 45 ft in length, excluding tow bar, while in traveling mode
-is built on permanent chassis
-is designed to be used as a dwelling or for commercial purposes if connected to required utilities, and
-includes plumbing, heating and electrical systems
House Trailer
Truck including a pickup truck, panel delivery truck, or carryall truck, that has a manufacturer’s rated carrying capacity of 2,000 lbs. or less
Light Truck
Motor vehicle that is equipped with a riders saddle and designed to have when propelled not more than three wheels on the ground, that cannot attain a speed in one mile or more thatn 30 miles per hour, and the engine of which
-cannot produce more than 5 brake horse power and
-internal combustion engine, has a piston displacement of 50 cubic centimeters or less and connects to a power drive system that does not require the operator to shift gears.
moped
motor vehicle, other than a tractor or moped, that is equipped with a rider’s saddle and designed to have when propelled not more than three wheels on the ground.
motorcycle
-a self-propelled vehicle or a vehicle that is propelled by electric power from overhead trolley wires the term does not include an electric bicycle or an electric personal assistive mobility device
motor vehicle
vehicle without motive power:
(A) designed to be drawn by another vehicle and secured to the other vehicle by pole, reach, boom, or other security device; and
(B) ordinarily used to transport a long or irregularly shaped load, including poles, pipes, or structural members, generally capable of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
pole trailer
motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, used to transport persons and designed to accommodate 10 or fewer passengers, including the operator.
passenger car
-motor vehicle that was manufactured in compliance with the federal motor vehicle safety standards for school buses in effect on the date of manufacture other than the standards requiring the bus to display alternately flashing red lights and to be equipped with movable stop arms, and that is used to transport preprimary, primary, or secondary students on a school-related activity trip other than on routes to and from school
-The term does not include a school bus, a school activity bus, a school-chartered bus, or a bus operated by a mass transit authority.
multifunction school activity bus
vehicle used by a peace officer, for law enforcement purposes that:
(A) is owned or leased by a governmental entity;
(B) is owned or leased by the police department of a private institution of higher education that commissions peace officers or
(C) a private vehicle owned or leased by the peace officer; and approved for use for law enforcement purposes by the head of the law enforcement agency that employs the peace officer
private vehicle may not be considered an authorized emergency vehicle for exemption purposes unless the vehicle is marked.
Police Vehicle
designed and used to draw another vehicle but not constructed to carry a load independently or a part of the weight of the other vehicle or its load.
Road tractor
bus designed to accommodate more than 15 passengers, including the operator, that is owned, operated, rented, or leased by a school district, county school, open-enrollment charter school, regional education service center, or shared services arrangement and that is used to transport public school students on a school-related activity trip, other than on routes to and from school.
School activity bus
motor vehicle that was manufactured in compliance with the federal motor vehicle safety standards for school buses in effect on the date of manufacture and that is used to transport pre-primary, primary, or secondary students on a route to or from school or on a school-related activity trip other than on routes to and from school
School bus
vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer:
(A) designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to transport persons or property; and
(B) constructed so that part of the vehicle’s weight and load rests on or is carried by another vehicle
Semitrailer
vehicle that is not designed or used primarily to transport persons or property and that is only incidentally operated on a highway
(A) includes ditchdigging apparatus, well boring apparatus, and road construction and maintenance machinery, including an asphalt spreader, bituminous mixer, bucket loader, tractor other than a truck tractor, ditcher, levelling grader, finishing machine, motor grader, road roller, scarifier, earth-moving carryall and scraper, power shovel or dragline, or self-propelled crane and earth-moving equipment; and
(B) excludes a vehicle that is designed to transport persons or property and that has machinery attached, including a house trailer, dump truck, truck-mounted transit mixer, crane, and shovel.
Special mobile equipment
