When parking a truck with a maximum authorized mass (MAM) of 6,000 kg on a road with an appreciable slope of 8%, what immobilization measures are required to be taken?

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The General Traffic Regulations (Article 92(3)) require anyone leaving a motor vehicle to stop the engine, leave the parking brake applied and leave first gear engaged on an uphill slope or reverse gear on a downhill one (or, where applicable, the parking position). In addition, if it is a vehicle of more than 3,500 kg of maximum authorized mass (MAM), a bus or a combined vehicle and it is parked in a place with an appreciable slope, such as this 6,000 kg truck on an 8% slope, it must be left properly chocked: with chocks (stones or other items not expressly intended for that function are not valid), or by resting one of the steered wheels on the curb, turned toward the center of the roadway on an uphill slope and outward on a downhill one. That is why the parking brake alone is not enough, nor are the brake and an engaged gear.

When parking a truck with a maximum authorized mass (MAM) of 6,000 kg on a road with an appreciable slope of 8%, what immobilization measures are required to be taken?

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