Slow moving vehicles — Connecticut Permit Test

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

The rules

Farm tractors, animal-drawn vehicles and roadway maintenance vehicles usually travel at 25 mph or less and should carry an orange triangle decal on the back.

Closing on something doing twenty-five while you do fifty takes seconds. The decal is the warning that it is that slow.

Farm tractors, animal-drawn vehicles and roadway maintenance vehicles usually go 25 mph or less.
Connecticut Driver's Manual, p.18

Drivers must yield the right of way to a bus traveling in the same direction when the bus signals appropriately.

A bus rejoining traffic cannot accelerate out of the way, so the law gives it the gap rather than making it wait.

Drivers are required to yield the right of way to a bus traveling in the same direction when the bus appropriately signals.
Connecticut Driver's Manual, p.18

State law permits passing slow moving traffic, pedestrians, parked or standing vehicles, animals, bicycles, mopeds and scooters in no passing zones, and you may cross a double yellow line to do it.

Sitting behind a walker on a blind curve for a mile is its own hazard, so the state allows the pass when it is safe.

State law permits passing of slow moving traffic, and pedestrians, parked or standing vehicles, animals, bicycles, mopeds and scooters in no passing zones.
Connecticut Driver's Manual, p.18

Before crossing a double yellow line to pass slow moving traffic you must be able to see far enough ahead to complete the pass safely.

The permission is conditional. A blind rise takes the sight distance away and the permission with it.

however, you must make sure you can see far enough ahead to enable you to safely pass before attempting this passing maneuver
Connecticut Driver's Manual, p.18

You must not drive faster than the distance you can see.

Beyond your sight line the road might be blocked. Driving past that point means agreeing to hit whatever is there.

You must not drive faster than the distance you can see.
Connecticut Driver's Manual, p.18

On the test

What speed do farm tractors and roadway maintenance vehicles usually travel at?

25 mph or less. Closing on something doing twenty-five while you do fifty takes seconds. The decal is the warning that it is that slow. Connecticut Driver's Manual, p.18: “Farm tractors, animal-drawn vehicles and roadway maintenance vehicles usually go 25 mph or less.”

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Where these come from

Every rule here is checked against Connecticut Driver's Manual, published by the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-16.