When driving on a conventional road at the wheel of a large bus, are you required to indicate to the vehicle behind you that intends to overtake you that it may carry out the maneuver?

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Article 86(1) of the General Traffic Regulations says that, if it is not possible to keep completely to the right edge of the roadway and the overtaking can nevertheless be carried out safely, the driver of a heavy vehicle, a large vehicle or one with a specific speed limit (those in paragraph 3) who is about to be overtaken must indicate that possibility to the one approaching. This is done by extending the arm horizontally and moving it several times from back to front, or with the right indicator. Denying any indication ("under no circumstances") is wrong, because the rule requires that signal in the situation described. Giving it "in any circumstances" is also wrong: it applies only when the bus cannot keep completely to the right edge and the overtaking is safe.

When driving on a conventional road at the wheel of a large bus, are you required to indicate to the vehicle behind you that intends to overtake you that it may carry out the maneuver?

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