Regulación del uso de camiones planos en carreteras estatales de Carolina del Norte

Explicación Simple

Esta ley dice que si usas un camión plano para transportar cosas como troncos o cajas, debes asegurarlas bien. Si llevas tabaco en barriles, también necesitas asegurarlos para que no se caigan mientras manejas.

Es como cuando llevas una caja grande en tu auto: si no la aseguras, puede moverse y caer mientras conduces, causando un accidente.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan tiene un camión plano y quiere llevar troncos a su taller. Antes de salir, revisa que los troncos estén bien sujetos con cuerdas, porque sabe que si no lo hace, podrían caerse en la carretera y causar un accidente.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

§ 20-120. Operation of flat trucks on State highways regulated; trucks hauling leaf tobacco in barrels or hogsheads. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to operate, or have operated on any public highway in the State any open, flat truck loaded with logs, cotton bales, boxes or other load piled on said truck, without having the said load securely fastened on said truck. It shall be unlawful for any firm, person or corporation to operate or permit to be operated on any highway of this State a truck or trucks on which leaf tobacco in barrels or hogsheads is carried unless each section or tier of such barrels or hogsheads are reasonably securely fastened to such truck or trucks by metal chains or wire cables, or manila or hemp ropes of not less than five-eighths inch in diameter, to hold said barrels or hogsheads in place under any ordinary traffic or road condition: Provided that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any truck or trucks on which the hogsheads or barrels of tobacco are arranged in a single layer, tier, or plane, it being the intent of this paragraph to require the use of metal chains or wire cables only when barrels or hogsheads of tobacco are stacked or piled one upon the other on a truck or trucks. Nothing in this paragraph shall apply to trucks engaged in transporting hogsheads or barrels of tobacco between factories and storage houses of the same company unless such hogsheads or barrels are placed upon the truck in tiers.