A truck pulling double trailers is 100 feet long and moving at 30 mph. The pavement is dry and you can see well. At minimum, how many seconds of following space should you leave?

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Why

Below 40 mph, the rule is one second of gap per 10 feet of rig length, so this 100-foot combination needs 10 seconds; the additional second applies only when going faster than 40 mph.

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Topic: Following distance   License: CDL

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• Pulling Doubles and Triples

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