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Vehicle Information and Gazette Notices

To access Gazette Notices, Information Bulletins, Permits and Inspection information relating to a particular vehicle, please select one of the vehicle types below.

What are Gazette Notices?

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View Draft PBS Route Maps

Publications

Gazettes (Code of Practice)/ Public Notices form November 2007
Route assessment guidelines for Restricted Access Vehicles June 2007
Authorised assessors list
Changes to the Map requirements for Restricted Access Vehicles - Fact Sheet October 2007
Policy for the Transport of Oversize and Overmass Indivisible Loads and Vehicles - June 2006

 

higher mass limit trucks

Concessional Mass Limits
   
higher mass limit trucks Higher Mass Limits
   
23.0 metre b double trucks B-Doubles
25.0 metre b double trucks  
   

32 metre double road train

36.5 metre double road train

53.5 metre triple road train

Road Trains (including Converter Dolly)

  • 32M Double Road Train
  • 36.5M Double Road Train
  • 53.5M Triple Road Train
  • Converter Dolly
   
14.5 metre controlled access bus Buses
agricultural vehicles Agricultural Vehicles
  Car Carrier
  General Freight
  Oversize/Overmass Vehicles
  Rigid Truck and Trailer
  Miscellaneous
  Overmass Low Loader Vehicles
 

 

What are Gazette Notices?

A Gazette Notice is an exemption granted under the Road Traffic Act. A Gazette Notice allows Restricted Access Vehicles (RAVs) to operate on approved route networks in South Australia, provided that the terms and conditions of the Notice have been met.

RAVs include long combinations vehicles such as:

  • Road Trains
  • B-Doubles
  • Car Carriers
  • Higher Mass Limits Vehicles
  • Controlled Access Buses.

A series of South Australian route networks has been assessed and approved as safe and suitable for use by RAVs. These approved route networks are published as notices in the South Australian Government Gazette, and are known as “Gazettes”.

Gazette Notices contain the:

  • Approved route networks
  • Terms and conditions for operation.

RAV drivers must comply with all conditions specified in the Gazette Notice when operating on an approved route.


 

 

 
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