When merging onto a dual carriageway using an acceleration lane while driving a truck, if you are traveling faster than a passenger car in the main lane, is this considered overtaking?

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Article 83(3) of the General Traffic Regulations provides that, on sections with acceleration or deceleration lanes, moving faster along them than in the normal traffic lanes, or vice versa, is not considered overtaking. Therefore, merging onto a dual carriageway via the acceleration lane and traveling faster than a passenger car in the main lane is not overtaking. It does not hold to reason that overtaking is always done on the left: the reason is the one set by Article 83(3), not the side on which one passes, and in addition there are cases in which overtaking on the right is possible. Nor does it hold to say that it is overtaking because the other vehicle is passed longitudinally: Article 83(3) expressly excludes that case.

When merging onto a dual carriageway using an acceleration lane while driving a truck, if you are traveling faster than a passenger car in the main lane, is this considered overtaking?

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