When driving outside a built-up area at the wheel of a truck with a maximum authorized mass of more than 3,500 kg on a roadway that has three lanes for its direction, which lanes is it allowed to use?

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According to Article 31(2) of the General Traffic Regulations (formerly Article 32), outside built-up areas, on roadways with three or more lanes for the same direction, drivers of trucks or vans with a maximum authorized mass (MAM) of more than 3,500 kg, as well as drivers of combined vehicles of more than seven meters in length, normally drive in the lane furthest to the right. They may use the immediately adjacent one when traffic or road circumstances advise it, provided that they do not hinder the movement of another vehicle following them. The regulation only contemplates the right-hand lane and the adjacent one, so occupying any of the three lanes is not allowed. And staying only in the right-hand lane, without being able to change to another, is not what the regulation says either: they may use the adjacent one when traffic or the road advise it.

When driving outside a built-up area at the wheel of a truck with a maximum authorized mass of more than 3,500 kg on a roadway that has three lanes for its direction, which lanes is it allowed to use?

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