Section 9Sec./Art. 9

Permissible weights and dimensions of vehicles in highways traffic.

(a) The maximum gross weight and measurement of motor vehicles, unladen or with load, permissible on public highways shall be as specified hereunder, subject to such regulations as the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, may promulgate, from time to time, as the conditions of the public highways may warrant and the needs of the service may require.

Permissible maximum weights:

1. Per most heavily loaded wheelthree thousand six hundred kilograms;

2. Per most heavily loaded axleeight thousand kilograms;

3. Per most heavily loaded axle group (the two axles of the group being at least one meter and less than two meters apart)fourteen thousand five hundred kilograms.

An axle weight shall be the total weight transmitted to the road by all the wheels the centers of which can be included between the parallel transverse vertical planes one meter apart extending across the full width of the vehicles.

No provincial, city or municipal authority shall enact or enforce any ordinance or resolution regulating or prescribing the maximum gross weight of any motor vehicle.

(b) No motor vehicle operating as a single unit shall exceed the following dimensions:

Overall width two and five-tenths meters

Overall height four meters

Overall length:

Freight vehicles with two axles ten meters

Passenger vehicles with two axles eleven meters

Vehicles with three or more axles fourteen meters

(c) No motor vehicle and/or trailer combination shall exceed eighteen meters in overall projected length, including any load carried on such vehicle and trailer.

(d) No articulated vehicles shall be allowed to draw or pull a trailer and no vehicle already drawing a trailer shall draw another.