Federal Motor Carrier Safety RegulationsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 - Transportation, Automotive |
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adequate AMBER CLEARANCE LAMPS AMBER STOP LAMP amended by Ex apply axle brakes buses cargo chains or cables compliance comply constructed Coupling devices date of manufacture designed Diagram to illustrate doctor of medicine driveaway-towaway operations driver eight or less equipped Ex Parte MC-40 feet fifth wheel fill-pipe Form B. M. C. front fuel tank full trailer grade crossing gross weight Havre de Grace heater hicle highway inches inspection Interstate Commerce INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION Item king-pin Lamps and reflectors least Lighting devices lighting lamps Liquefied petroleum gas located lower-half MARKER LAMP means motor carrier motor vehicle mounted osteopathy paragraph passengers permit person physical examination ply rating pole trailer pounds prohibited protection rear RED OR AMBER RED REFLECTORS RED TAIL LAMP regulations saddle-mount semitrailer side sleeper berth subchapter Subparagraph Subpart thereof tion tow-bar towed and towing towing vehicle truck truck-tractor U-bolts upper-half Wiring
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Page 3 - The transportation of passengers or property in interstate or foreign commerce wholly within a municipality or between contiguous municipalities or within a zone adjacent to and commercially a part of any such municipality or municipalities...
Page 12 - ... a red light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear of the vehicle, and...
Page 46 - ... equipped with a mirror so located as to reflect to the driver a view of the highway for a distance of at least two hundred feet to the rear of such vehicle.
Page 5 - Interior, principally for the purpose of transporting persons in and about the national parks and national monuments; or (4a) motor vehicles controlled and operated by any farmer, and used in the transportation of his agricultural commodities and products thereof, or in the transportation of supplies to his farm...
Page 29 - If these two separate means of applying the brakes are connected in any way, they shall be so constructed that failure of any one part of the operating mechanism shall not leave the motor vehicle without brakes on at least two wheels.
Page 29 - Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle or motor-driven cycle, when operated upon a highway shall be equipped with brakes adequate to control the movement of and to stop and hold such vehicle, including two separate means of applying the brakes, each of which means shall be effective to apply the brakes to at least two wheels.
Page 5 - Every motor carrier shall have in its files at its principal place of business for every driver employed or used by it a legible certificate of a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy...
Page 3 - private carrier of property by motor vehicle" means any person not included in the terms "common carrier by motor vehicle" or "contract carrier by motor vehicle", who or which transports in interstate or foreign commerce by motor vehicle property of which such person is the owner, lessee, or bailee, when such transportation is for the purpose of sale, lease, rent, or bailment, or in furtherance of any commercial enterprise.
Page 2 - RESIDENCE DISTRICT."— The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
Page 11 - ... hour before sunrise and at any other time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance of 500 feet ahead...