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Truck blind spots (No Zones)

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What are a large truck's No Zones?

The rule

Large trucks have big blind spots, called No Zones, where a car can vanish from the driver's view. If you can't see the truck's side mirrors, the driver can't see you.

No Zones are a truck's large blind spots, where your car can disappear from the driver's view. If you can't see the truck's side mirrors, the driver can't see you.

From the California Driver Handbook, section 7, page 42. This question is our own wording of that rule. The handbook and the DMV have the final word.

Often mixed up with

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