You know none of the provisions of the vehicle code applies to people who do not drive commercially!!

If you go back to the STATUTES from 1925 on, you'll probably find some EVIDENCE that will expose the COMMERCIAL NATURE of the VEHICLE CODE.

Most likely you will find something like what we have here in California:

LICENSES are required of those in BUSINESS.

GC 15367. The agency shall compile a comprehensive listing of all state licenses, permits, and registrations required of any person desiring to operate a business enterprise in California, except permits for a development project as defined in Section 65928. The agency shall categorize the required permits, licenses, and registrations into a comprehensive handbook that is readily available to persons interested in establishing a business enterprise.

TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS & PROPERTY is defined as a BUSINESS.

PUC 208. 'Transportation of persons' includes every service in connection with or incidental to the safety, comfort, or convenience of the person transported and the receipt, carriage, and delivery of such person and his baggage.

PUC 209. 'Transportation of property' includes every service in connection with or incidental to the transportation of property, including in particular its receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer,
switching, carriage, ventilation, refrigeration, icing, dunnage, storage, and handling, and the transmission of credit by express corporations.

The VEHICLES used in the BUSINESS of the TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS & PROPERTY the MOTOR VEHICLES that are required to be REGISTERED & REGULATED under the VEHICLE CODE.

PUC 214.5. With respect to a motor vehicle used in the transportation of passengers for compensation by a passenger stage corporation, 'owner' means the corporation or person who is registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles as the owner of the vehicle, or who has a legal right to possession of the vehicle pursuant to a lease or rental agreement.

VC 260. (a) A 'commercial vehicle' is a motor vehicle of a type required to be registered under this code used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit or
designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
(b) Passenger vehicles and house cars that are not used for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit are not commercial vehicles. This subdivision shall not apply to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3.
(c) Any vanpool vehicle is not a commercial vehicle.
(d) The definition of a commercial vehicle in this section does not apply to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 15200) of Division 6.

9605. “Motor vehicle” includes any automobile, truck, tractor, or other self-propelled vehicle used for the transportation of persons or property upon the public highways, otherwise than upon fixed rails or tracks, and any trailer, semi-trailer, dolly, or other vehicle drawn thereby, not exempt from registration fees under the laws of this State. STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA 1941, California Revenue & Taxation Code, Chapter 39, pg 591

One who is employed to drive a MOTOR VEHICLE involved in the TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS a CHAUFFEUR and one who is employed to drive a MOTOR VEHICLE involved in the TRANSPORTATION OF PROPERTY an OPERATOR.

9603. “Operator” includes:
(a) Any person engaging in the transportation of persons or property for hire or compensation by or upon a motor vehicle upon any public highway in this State, either directly or indirectly.
(b) Any person who furnishes any motor vehicle for the transportation of persons or property under a lease or rental agreement when pursuant to the terms thereof the person operates the motor vehicle furnished or exercises any control of, or assumes any responsibility for, or engages either in whole or in part in, the transportation of persons or property in the motor vehicle furnished.

“Operator” does not include any of the following:
(a) Any person transporting his own property in a motor vehicle owned or operated by him unless he makes a specific charge for the transportation. This subdivision does not in any way limit any other exemption granted by this section.
(b) Any farmer . . .
(c) Any nonprofit . . .
(d) Any person . . transports . . school . .
(e) Any person . . . hearse . . .
(f) Any registered owner of a pleasure vehicle who, while operating the vehicle, transports persons to his work, or to a place through which he passes on the way to his work, whether for or without compensation, if he is not in the business of furnishing such transportation. STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA 1941, California Revenue & Taxation Code, Chapter 39, pg 590

That what a DRIVER'S LICENSE is really for.

310. 'Driver's License' includes both an operator's and a chauffeur's license. Statutes of California 1959, Chapter 3, Vehicle Code, page 1531.

I highly suggest that you check out http://groups.yahoo..s-License/ and read the recent debate on TRAFFIC TICKETS.

You need to get this type of information into the RECORD before the supposed TRIAL.

I would MOVE to DISMISS for LACK OF JURISDICTION & VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS and as a last resort MOVE to SUPPRESS on the same grounds.

I am pregnant and due to the traffic very bad this morning. I use the carpool lane for less than 1 mile. I got ticket a ticket for that. Is there a law that allow pregnant women to use carpool lane when it is in emergency situation like, I need to use the restroom or I am in pain?