California Vehicle Code CHAPTER 4 - Length

  • Section 35400.
    (a) A vehicle may not exceed a length of 40 feet.(b) This section does not apply to any of the following:(1) A vehicle used in a combination of...
  • Section 35400.5.
    Subdivision (a) of Section 35400 does not apply to a motortruck used solely as a cotton module mover and which does not exceed 48 feet...
  • Section 35400.6.
    (a) Subdivision (a) of Section 35400 does not apply to a fifth-wheel travel trailer that does not exceed the following lengths:(1) Forty-eight feet in length from the...
  • Section 35400.7.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 35400, the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District created pursuant to Part 1 (commencing with Section 24501) of Division 10 of the Public Utilities Code...
  • Section 35400.75.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 35400, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority created pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 130050) of Division 12 of the Public...
  • Section 35400.8.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 35400, the Sacramento Regional Transit District, created pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title...
  • Section 35400.9.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 35400, Gold Coast Transit (GCT), created pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1...
  • Section 35401.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), a combination of vehicles coupled together, including attachments, may not exceed a total length of 65...
  • Section 35401.1.
    A combination of vehicles operated pursuant to Section 35400 or 35401 with a kingpin to rearmost axle measurement of greater than 38 feet but not...
  • Section 35401.3.
    (a) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 35401, a combination of vehicles designed and used to transport motor vehicles, camper units, or boats, which consists...
  • Section 35401.5.
    (a) A combination of vehicles consisting of a truck tractor and semitrailer, or of a truck tractor, semitrailer, and trailer, is not subject to the limitations...
  • Section 35401.7.
    (a) The limitations of access specified in subdivision (d) of Section 35401.5 do not apply to licensed carriers of livestock when those carriers are directly en...
  • Section 35401.9.
    Notwithstanding Section 35401, a driveaway-towaway combination, as described in Section 303, shall not exceed 97 feet in length when transporting up to three saddle-mounted vehicles...
  • Section 35402.
    (a) Any extension or device, including any adjustable axle added to the front or rear of a vehicle, used to increase the carrying capacity of a...
  • Section 35403.
    Safety devices which are required to be mounted upon a vehicle pursuant to provisions of this code, may extend beyond the permissible length of a...
  • Section 35404.
    Any county having a population in excess of 4,000,000 and having within its limits a natural island with an area in excess of 20,000 acres...
  • Section 35405.
    (a) An aerodynamic device that extends no more than five feet beyond the rear of a vehicle shall not be included in measuring the length of...
  • Section 35406.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the load upon any vehicle operated alone, or the load upon the front vehicle of a combination of vehicles,...
  • Section 35407.
    Section 35406 does not apply to the booms or masts of shovels, cranes or water well drilling and servicing equipment carried upon a motor vehicle...
  • Section 35407.5.
    Section 35406 and subdivisions (a) and (d) of Section 35407 do not apply to the booms or masts of a self-propelled heel-boom log loader first...
  • Section 35408.
    In no event shall a front bumper on a motor vehicle be constructed or installed so as to project more than two feet forward of...
  • Section 35409.
    (a) Any motor vehicle used for the purpose of taking photographs, motion pictures, or television pictures or for teaching safe driving may be equipped with a...
  • Section 35410.
    The load upon any motor vehicle alone or an independent load only upon a trailer or semitrailer shall not extend to the rear beyond the...
  • Section 35411.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the load upon any combination of vehicles shall not exceed 75 feet measured from the front extremity of the...
  • Section 35414.
    (a) Except where a load can be transported consistent with the limitations on vehicle and load length specified in other sections of this chapter, the limitations...

Last modified: October 22, 2018