CDL Study Question - Reviewing Course Material Again
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If you were speeding, it is going to be your fault. As a CDL holder, you are a professional driver. The motoring public are not considered professional drivers. Therefore, you should know better than to speed. You should have enough following distance to be able to avoid anything that happens in front of you.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
OWI:
Operating While Intoxicated
It means both of your options and what Wine Taster said. It can mean you didn't get slowed down in time and ran into someone. It can mean you refused to slow down and tried going around it instead and got caught up in it when you shouldn't have. Basically, if you could have avoided a wreck by slowing down or stopping but you didn't for any reason, you're at least partly at fault. If it was unavoidable that is altogether different. But they're referring to an accident that could have been avoided if you had slowed down or stopped in time.
OWI:
Operating While Intoxicated
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Under "Excessive Speeding"
Excessive speeding involving any single offense for any speed of 15 mph or more above the posted speed limit.
Failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.
Just curious, it looks self explanatory but then I wonder exactly what the statement refers to. Does it mean - as a driver - you came upon a situation where you could have avoided an accident but you didn't slow down (on purpose)? Or that, since you were speeding you were the cause of an accident? Is that just nit-picking on my part?
Thanks,
Jopa