Slow moving vehicles — Arizona Permit Test

Slow moving vehicles on the Arizona permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.

The rules

A vehicle showing the slow-moving vehicle symbol on its back cannot travel faster than 25 mph, and the symbol is a warning to slow down.

You close on it much faster than you expect. Slow down as soon as you see the symbol.

The vehicle with the sign cannot travel faster than 25 mph.

Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, p.52

Farm machinery usually travels at 25 mph or less, may take up more than one lane, and may not have signals.

A tractor may fill your lane and part of the next with no turn signal to warn you.

Farm machinery usually travels at 25 mph or less, may take up more than one lane of the road, and may not have signals.

Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, p.52

To make a wide turn, operators of farm machinery may first pull to the left, then turn to the right.

A tractor drifting left may be about to turn right. Passing it then puts you in its turn.

To make a wide turn, operators or farm machinery may first pull to the left, then turn to the right.

Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, p.52

Behind a slow-moving vehicle, do not become impatient: it has the legal right to be there.

An angry pass on a narrow road is how head-on crashes happen. Wait for a safe place.

It has the legal right to be there.

Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, p.52

Behind farm machinery and other slow-moving vehicles, keep a safe following distance that gives an adequate field of vision.

Close behind a wide machine you cannot see past it. Hang back so you can see the road ahead.

Be sure to maintain a safe following distance that provides an adequate field of vision.

Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, p.52

On the test

A vehicle with the slow-moving vehicle symbol cannot go faster than what speed?

25 mph. You close on it much faster than you expect. Slow down as soon as you see the symbol. Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, p.52: “The vehicle with the sign cannot travel faster than 25 mph.”

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Where these come from

Every rule here is checked against Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, published by the Arizona Department of Transportation, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-28.