A checkpoint on Highway 18 does not care that the pavement under you is dry. What R-1, R-2 and R-3 each require, why four-wheel drive still has to carry chains, and what the mile before the control is for.
Smoke at the hood line leaves no time to diagnose anything. Where to stop once the Corona hills have dried out, why the hood stays shut, and what has to happen before a burned car leaves the shoulder.
Steady or flashing is the whole decision, and you can read it from the driver's seat. What the lamp does and does not tell you, the fuel-cap check worth doing first, and the point where a warning light on the 91 turns into a flatbed.
Dry offshore wind does not look dangerous until a gust arrives from the side. Which vehicles a crosswind picks on, where the gusts actually hit along the 91 and the 15, and why a vehicle on its side is a recovery rather than a tow.
Twelve inches of moving water carries away most cars, and stalling happens well before that. Where runoff collects on local streets, what to do the moment a car stops in water, and why the next step is a tow rather than another turn of the key.
Flashers, then triangles, then the phone. The warning devices federal rules require within ten minutes, why a divided highway like the 91 changes the placement, and why air brakes and cargo make a commercial recovery a different job.
A disabled motorhome is not a bigger car job, it is a different truck. Why loaded weight beats brochure weight on the phone, the roadside fixes that avoid a tow, and how tow-away, flatbed and drive-away actually differ.
Strip the loose gear, kill the alarm, and tell them what you ride. What the federal securement rules require of the straps and chocks holding your bike, and how sport bikes, cruisers, choppers, scooters and trikes each get rigged differently.
If every wheel is a driven wheel, every wheel belongs off the road. How to check what your car actually drives, why electric and lowered vehicles need the same deck, and the one detail to lead with when you call.
