Towing and large vehicles — Oregon Permit Test
Towing and large vehicles on the Oregon permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
When driving a pickup with a camper, a motor home, or towing a trailer, check your speed and the traffic behind often, and pull off at the first safe turnout to let traffic pass if it is stacking up behind you.
A line of traffic behind a slow vehicle is where drivers start taking passes they should not, so clearing it is a safety act rather than a courtesy.
If traffic is stacking up behind you, pull off at the first safe turnout to let the traffic pass.
It is against the law to allow passengers to ride in any type of trailer, except a commercial bus trailer, an independently-steered trailer, or a trailer towed with a fifth-wheel device.
A trailer has no restraints and no crash structure, so the exceptions are the three builds designed to carry people.
It is against the law to allow passengers to ride in any type of trailer
Oregon law allows you to tow a maximum of one boat, general utility trailer, or other vehicle behind a passenger or recreational vehicle, and you cannot tow a second trailer or vehicle.
Each towed unit swings wider than the one in front of it, and the second is the one that leaves the lane before the driver notices.
Oregon law allows you to tow a maximum of one boat, general utility trailer, or other vehicle behind a passenger or recreational vehicle. You cannot tow a second trailer or vehicle.
Large vehicles and vehicles towing a trailer are longer, higher and wider than passenger vehicles, take longer to accelerate and to stop, and require more room to turn.
Every one of those differences shows up as a gap you should not take — in front of them, beside them in a turn, or behind them at a stop.
Large vehicles or vehicles towing a trailer are longer, higher, and wider than other passenger vehicles. They take longer to accelerate and to stop, and require more room to turn.
On the test
What should a driver towing a trailer do when traffic stacks up behind them?
Pull off at the first safe turnout to let traffic pass. A line of traffic behind a slow vehicle is where drivers start taking passes they should not, so clearing it is a safety act rather than a courtesy. 2026-2027 Oregon Driver Manual, p.35: “If traffic is stacking up behind you, pull off at the first safe turnout to let the traffic pass.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against 2026-2027 Oregon Driver Manual, published by the Oregon Department of Transportation, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-15.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/OR.pdf (2026-2027 Oregon Driver Manual, ODOT form 37, retrieved 2026-09-14)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/OR.pages.txt (pdftotext without -layout over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 8, nonLawPages, extraction flag and its basis)