Definición de grúas y vehículos de remolque en California

Explicación Simple

Un 'camión de remolque' es un vehículo que se usa para transportar otros autos. Esto puede ser con grúas o barras de remolque. También incluye vehículos que ayudan a otros autos en problemas.

Es como cuando tienes un amigo que siempre te ayuda a empujar tu bicicleta cuando se pincha. Ese amigo es como un camión de remolque para tu bicicleta.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan tiene un camión de remolque que utiliza para llevar autos averiados a un taller. Un día, ve un auto parado en la carretera y decide ayudarlo. Usando su camión, remolca el auto hasta que el dueño pueda arreglarlo.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

Vehicle Code - VEH DIVISION 1. WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED [100 - 681] ( Division 1 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. ) 615. (a) A “tow truck” is a motor vehicle which has been altered or designed and equipped for, and primarily used in the business of, transporting vehicles by means of a crane, hoist, tow bar, tow line, or dolly or is otherwise primarily used to render assistance to other vehicles. A “roll-back carrier” designed to carry up to two vehicles is also a tow truck. A trailer for hire that is being used to transport a vehicle is a tow truck. “Tow truck” does not include an automobile dismantlers’ tow vehicle or a repossessor’s tow vehicle. (b) “Repossessor’s tow vehicle” means a tow vehicle which is registered to a repossessor licensed or registered pursuant to Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 7500) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code that is used exclusively in the course of the repossession business. (c) “Automobile dismantlers’ tow vehicle” means a tow vehicle which is registered by an automobile dismantler licensed pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 11500) of Division 5 and which is used exclusively to tow vehicles owned by that automobile dismantler in the course of the automobile dismantling business. (Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 456, Sec. 14. Effective January 1, 2000.)