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No trucks signs

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Schedule 3Australian Road Rules
Part 8Traffic signs and road markings
Division 3Signs for trucks, buses and other large vehicles

104 No trucks signs

(1)

A driver (except the driver of a bus) must not drive past a no trucks sign that has information on or with it indicating a mass if the GVM of the driver's vehicle (or, if the driver is driving a combination, any vehicle in the combination) is more than that mass, unless the driver is permitted to drive the vehicle on a route passing the sign under another law of this jurisdiction.

Offence provision.

Note

Bus, combination,

driver's vehicle, GVM and with are defined in the

dictionary.

(2)

A driver (except the driver of a bus) must not drive past a no trucks sign that has information on or with it indicating a length if the length of the driver's vehicle (or, if the driver is driving a combination, the length of the combination) is longer than that length, unless the driver is permitted to drive the vehicle on a route passing the sign under another law of this jurisdiction.

Offence provision.

(3)

The driver of a truck must not drive past a no trucks sign that has no information on or with it indicating a mass or length, unless the driver is permitted to drive the truck on a route passing the sign under another law of this jurisdiction.

Offence provision.

Note

Truck is defined in the dictionary.

(4)

This rule does not apply to a driver if the destination of the driver lies beyond a no trucks sign and:

(a)

there is no other route by which the driver's vehicle could reach that destination; or

(b)

any other route by which the driver's vehicle could reach that destination would require the vehicle to pass another no trucks sign.

No trucks sign

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