2025 Georgia Codes – Page 389

Every bus, truck, full trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer, with the exception of local haul pulpwood trucks
and local haul waste collection dumping trailers, shall be equipped with suitable metal protectors or substan-
tial flexible flaps on the rearmost wheels to prevent, as far as practicable, such wheels from throwing dirt,
gravel, rocks, water, or other materials on the windshields of following vehicles. Such protectors or flaps
shall have a ground clearance of not more than one-half of the distance from the center of the rearmost axle
to the center of the protector or flap under any conditions of loading of the vehicle and shall be at least as
wide as the tires they are covering; provided, however, that if any such bus, truck, full trailer, semitrailer, or
pole trailer is so designed and constructed that the foregoing requirements are accomplished by means of
fenders, body construction, or other enclosures, then the protectors or flaps provided for in this Code section
shall not be required.