Slow moving vehicles — Vermont Permit Test
Slow moving vehicles on the Vermont permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
A slow moving vehicle, such as a tractor or other large farm machinery, is identified by an orange and red triangular sign mounted on the rear.
The sign is the only warning you get that the thing ahead is traveling far below the 50 mph limit.
It is identified by an orange and red triangular sign mounted on the rear of the vehicle.
Slow moving vehicles may make wide turns at unmarked entrances to the right or left of the roadway, and some farm equipment is wider than the road itself.
A tractor turning into a field has no driveway to signal from, and the turn starts from the far side of the road.
Slow moving vehicles may make wide turns at unmarked entrances to the right or left of the roadway.
Keep a safe following distance behind a slow moving vehicle so the operator can see you. It may be necessary to allow more than a four second following distance.
Farm machinery sways and can shed a load, and the operator often cannot see out of the back at all.
It may be necessary to allow for more than a four second following distance.
Agricultural vehicle operators have a right to drive their vehicles on the road. Pass one cautiously, only if conditions are safe and there is no oncoming traffic, and yield to wide equipment on narrow roads.
It is their road too, and the machine cannot move over on a road narrower than it is.
Pass slow moving vehicles cautiously, and only if conditions are safe, and there is no on-coming traffic.
On the test
How is a slow moving vehicle identified in Vermont?
By an orange and red triangular sign on the rear. The sign is the only warning you get that the thing ahead is traveling far below the 50 mph limit. 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, p.44: “It is identified by an orange and red triangular sign mounted on the rear of the vehicle.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, published by the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-15.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/VT.pdf (2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, form VN-007, retrieved 2026-09-14)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/VT.pages.txt (pdftotext -layout over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 1, folioMarker, nonLawPages, signGalleryPages and the extraction flag, each with its basis)