When driving a truck on an unsigned narrow section located on level ground, you meet another truck of similar characteristics coming the other way and simultaneous crossing is not possible. If there is doubt about who entered first, which vehicle is required to reverse?

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The traffic regulations (Articles 60 and 62 of the General Traffic Regulations) resolve narrow passages without express signage as follows: Temporal priority: the vehicle that entered the narrowing first has right of way. If there is doubt about who entered first, the vehicle with the greater maneuvering difficulty has right of way, according to the order by vehicle type in Article 62 (special vehicles and combined vehicles, for example, before trucks and passenger cars). Vehicles of the same type: right of way goes to the one that would have to reverse a greater distance; consequently, the one that must back up is the one that has to travel a shorter distance to the widening. The criterion of lesser length, width or maximum authorized mass (MAM) could decide only as a tiebreaker if both trucks had to reverse exactly the same distance, which the question does not raise. And having the one that must travel the greater distance reverse is the opposite of what the rule requires: that vehicle is precisely the one that has right of way, to avoid long and dangerous reversing maneuvers with heavy vehicles.

When driving a truck on an unsigned narrow section located on level ground, you meet another truck of similar characteristics coming the other way and simultaneous crossing is not possible. If there is doubt about who entered first, which vehicle is required to reverse?

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