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Texas Class C Learner License Practice Test
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Your household owns two cars and a pickup truck. You want to take your 15-year-old cousin and two friends to a lake, with them riding in the open bed of the pickup on a county road. What is true?
Correct answer: It is illegal for a rider under 18 on this kind of trip.
Why
An open bed has no seats, belts or walls to hold a rider in a crash or a sudden turn, so riders can be thrown out. The law allows only narrow defenses: a parade or an emergency, moving farmworkers between fields on certain rural roads, driving on a beach, a household whose only vehicle is the pickup, or a permitted hayride. The driver, not the rider, gets the ticket.
Verified against Texas Driver Handbook · Vehicles with Open Beds · p. 70
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