When driving a heavy vehicle on a road with one lane in each direction, a passenger car tries to overtake you. If you cannot pull completely over to the right but the maneuver can be carried out in complete safety, what indication must you give?

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According to the General Traffic Regulations (Article 86(1)), when drivers of heavy vehicles, vehicles of large dimensions or vehicles subject to a specific speed limit cannot keep completely to the right edge of the roadway and overtaking can be carried out safely, they must indicate this to the approaching vehicle, by using the right indicator or by extending the arm horizontally and moving it repeatedly from back to front, with the back of the hand facing backward. Moving aside onto the shoulder or slowing down is what Article 86(3) requires when the density of oncoming traffic, the width of the roadway, its profile or its condition do not allow them to be overtaken easily and without danger; that is not the situation in the question, in which overtaking can be done safely. That is why neither moving onto the shoulder nor reducing speed immediately so that they pass is the indication being asked for.

When driving a heavy vehicle on a road with one lane in each direction, a passenger car tries to overtake you. If you cannot pull completely over to the right but the maneuver can be carried out in complete safety, what indication must you give?

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