When driving a truck and reaching an unsignposted narrowing located on a stretch with a steep slope, a passenger car approaches from the opposite direction. Which vehicle has the right of way?

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On a steep stretch (a minimum gradient of seven percent) where the narrowness prevents simultaneous passing and there is no signage regulating the right of way, the vehicle traveling uphill has it, unless a passing place established for that purpose can be reached first (Article 63(1) of the General Traffic Regulations). That rule does not depend on the type or size of the vehicles, so the passenger car does not gain priority by going faster, nor does the truck by having more mass or greater maneuvering difficulty: the criterion is who is going up, with the exception of the passing place.

When driving a truck and reaching an unsignposted narrowing located on a stretch with a steep slope, a passenger car approaches from the opposite direction. Which vehicle has the right of way?

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