In the case of vehicle breakdown on the road driver needed help from other motorists (or special services) to get to the place of repair. Because towing - class rather rare for the average driver, the basic theoretical concepts of the Road Traffic Regulations, which were studied in a driving school, partially forgotten. Therefore, on the road you can often find two coupled vehicle traveling in the middle lane and blinking emergency gang. It interferes with other traffic and creates emergency situations - in fact they are both blinking yellow light bulbs, how do you know what they're going to turn around and rebuild? So if you do not know the rules of towing vehicle, it is better not call to help a motorist in distress, except for him the consequences could be worse, as to the service, he may not get there without a serious loss. During towing vehicles lose in agility, so the SDA describes the most important aspects of this process to make it more secure. High-speed mode for two coupled between a car is limited to 50 km / h, with a towing vehicle must be enabled headlights, regardless of time of day, and a towed vehicle to operate the yellow emergency lights. Towing vehicle must be defective because it assigned the function to be "the engine" broken vehicle. The movement of the faulty car can be done with flexible and rigid couplings, or partial and full load on the platform of the truck. Flexible Coupling is carried out using a special steel rope or cable, where every meter should hang signaling flags or boards with strips of red and white flowers. With flexible coupling distance between cars will vary from 4 to 6 meters, enough for emergency braking of the vehicle driven. Behind the wheel of the towed vehicle must be in the driver if the vehicle is a passenger, then it may be, and passengers. Towing a flexible coupler is prohibited in broken brake system, since a faulty car can crash into the lead, with a faulty steering system, as the towed vehicle will not be able to repeat the maneuvers of towing, and a flexible coupling is prohibited in the ice, because the distance between cars is not enough to inhibit second due to slippery road surface. For a rigid coupling is used all-metal tubes or triangular rod with two lugs. The length of the coupling material shall not be more than 4 meters, to avoid skidding towed vehicle. As with flexible coupling for driving the driven car to sit a driver (a passenger in the cabin can be carried and passengers). Prohibited to tow a rigid drawbar vehicle with a faulty brake system, if its weight (with driver, passengers, cargo) more than half the weight (with driver, passengers, cargo), the towing vehicle. If you violate this restriction in the lead vehicle stopping distance is greatly increased, the consequences could be loss of control of both machines. Also propelled rigid drawbar is prohibited in the case of a faulty steering the towed vehicle, if the design of the coupling unit does not provide traffic driven the car on the trajectory of the tractor. Towing vehicle by means of partial loading is carried out by installing and fixing the front of the defective car to the platform truck. Just like when towing with a solid connection, it is forbidden to carry out towing with partial loading a vehicle with a faulty brake system malfunction, if its weight (with driver, passengers, cargo) more than half the weight (with driver, passengers, cargo), the towing vehicle . During the tow driver and passengers are not allowed to be inside the towed vehicle. In addition, it is forbidden to tow such a way two or more vehicles, since their involuntary maneuvers will create interference to other vehicles on the roads, as well as motorcycles without sidecar, as a low speed two-wheeled vehicles lose stability. Driver of the tractor must be remembered that the movement of his car should not be abrupt. It must be doubly careful on the road to calculate the mobility not only of his vehicle, but coupled with it. Before moving to both drivers would be better to agree on a conventional signals that they will submit to each other at the beginning of the movement, stopping and unexpected situations. The driver towed vehicles must follow the connecting cable - it should always be stretched, and if it weakens, it should slow down. There are subtleties of towing cars with automatic transmission. The main condition - that the engine worked, and the lever box was in a mode «N» (neutral). But the limited speed and distance towing - the average is 50 km at a speed of 50 km / h. Although in the case, if the machine got "tightly" and the nearest service is far better to use the services of a tow truck or partially submerge it into a platform truck. But the partial loading is only suitable monoprivodnym machines, since only attached to the tractor front and drive wheels. There is a more radical way - remove the drives, but in this case would need to change the wheel bearing. If you are driving a car with automatic transmission and you are going to tow someone, then you need to take into account the strict limits. Towing is better performed using a rigid coupling. Weight of the towed vehicle must not exceed your weight, speed should not exceed 40 km / h, gearshift lever must be set in mode 2 "or« L », so the car will not switch on downshifts to avoid unwanted stress.
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