When driving a rigid truck 7 meters long, is it permitted to transport concrete beams under ordinary conditions?

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DentroTest · Accepted Answer

As a general rule, the maximum length authorized for a rigid motor vehicle for goods (except buses) to drive, including the load, is 12 meters (General Vehicle Regulations, Annex IX, section 3). Although concrete beams are an indivisible load and on vehicles more than 5 meters long they are allowed to protrude up to 2 meters at the front and 3 meters at the rear, the total dimension of the loaded vehicle must not exceed 12 meters without a special transport authorization. Allowing a projection of at most 3 meters at the front and 2 at the rear reverses the overhang limits (they are 2 m at the front and 3 m at the rear) and ignores the 12 m cap. And limiting it to one third of the length of the truck is not valid, because that third applies only to vehicles of up to 5 meters.

When driving a rigid truck 7 meters long, is it permitted to transport concrete beams under ordinary conditions?

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