Angled parking isn't for everyone

The briefing

A traffic safety column answers a reader asking what to do when long trucks in angled parking stick out into the travel lane. Drivers may cross the center line when an obstruction makes it necessary, but must yield to oncoming traffic. The rules for the parkers are murkier: state law is oddly silent, though the Model Traffic Ordinance and local codes generally make it illegal to park so that a vehicle protrudes past its space into the roadway.