When driving a truck with a maximum authorized mass (MAM) of more than 3,500 kg outside built-up areas on a roadway with three lanes in its direction of travel, which lanes may you use?

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Article 31(2) of the General Traffic Regulations (formerly Article 32) establishes that, outside built-up areas, on a roadway 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 and of combined vehicles more than seven meters long normally drive in the rightmost lane. They may use the adjacent one (the center lane, on a three-lane roadway) when traffic or road circumstances advise it, provided that they do not hinder the progress of another vehicle following them. The rule contemplates only the right lane and the adjacent one: it does not allow using any of the three, nor does it require always staying in the right-hand one.

When driving a truck with a maximum authorized mass (MAM) of more than 3,500 kg outside built-up areas on a roadway with three lanes in its direction of travel, which lanes may you use?

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