California Vehicle Code CHAPTER 1 - Towing Equipment

• Section 29000.
  Unless specified, this chapter does not apply to tow trucks or to the drawbar or other connection between a motor vehicle and a pole or...
• Section 29001.
  The upper and lower halves of every fifth wheel connecting device on any semitrailer and truck-tractor or auxiliary dolly shall be securely affixed to the...
• Section 29002.
  Every fifth wheel mechanism, including adapters, shall be equipped with a locking device which will not permit the upper and lower halves to be separated...
• Section 29003.
  (a) Every hitch or coupling device used as a means of attaching the towed and towing vehicles shall be properly and securely mounted and be structurally...
• Section 29004.
  (a) (1) Except as required under paragraph (2), a towed vehicle shall be coupled to the towing vehicle by means of a safety chain, cable, or equivalent...
• Section 29004.5.
  No recreational vehicle, as described in Section 18010.5 of the Health and Safety Code, designed to be towed, shall be manufactured for sale in this...
• Section 29005.
  When one vehicle is towing another, the drawbar or other connection shall not exceed 15 feet.(Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 58.)
• Section 29006.
  (a) No person shall operate a vehicle towing another motor vehicle upon a freeway unless the towing vehicle is coupled to the towed vehicle by a...
• Section 29007.
  The requirements of Section 29004 shall not apply to vehicles engaged in driveaway-towaway operations if all the following conditions are met:(a) The towed vehicle has one...
• Section 29008.
  Sections 29004 and 29005 shall not apply to trailers or dollies used to support booms attached to truck cranes if the following conditions are met:(a) The...
• Section 29009.
  The requirements of Section 29004 do not apply to a dolly used to support a portion of special construction equipment, as defined in Section 565,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018