The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is reminding the trucking community about rules requiring the use of turnouts after a recent incident involving a tanker truck in the San Gorgonio Pass area.
Troopers recently made an enforcement stop on a tanker truck “for failing to use a turnout on State Route 371 within our mountain communities.”
CHP said that the tanker truck driver was traveling at speeds of 20 m.p.h. and failed to use two large marked paved turnouts with fifteen vehicles following behind.
Troopers went on to explain the violation:…