Traffic Regulations, Schedule 3 - Australian Road Rules 1999

If the driver of a truck or bus is driving on a length of road to which a trucks and buses low gear sign applies, the driver must drive the truck or bus in a gear that is low enough to limit the speed of the truck or bus without the use of a primary brake.

Offence provision.

Note

Bus, length of road and truck are defined in the dictionary.

Subrule (1) does not apply to the driver of a bus if information on or with the sign indicates that it applies only to trucks.

Note

With is defined in the dictionary.

A trucks and buses low gear sign on a road applies to the length of road beginning at the sign and ending:

if information on or with the sign indicates a distance –

at that distance on the road from the sign; or

in any other case – at an end trucks and buses low gear sign on the road.

In this rule:

primary brake means the footbrake, or other brake, fitted to a truck or bus that is normally used to slow or stop the vehicle.

Note for diagrams

There are a number of other permitted versions of the trucks and buses low gear sign, and another permitted version of the end trucks and buses low gear sign – see the diagrams in Schedule 3

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