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Originally Posted by MrZ
Okay, fair enough, but as I already said, 2000kg gross weight is not a heavy vehicle. That's a Commodore/Falcon with a few people on board. The widely accepted definition of a heavy vehicle is over 4500kg GVM. So why can't the sign reflect this?
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Mate, that sign is probably 50 years old and has most likely slipped under the radar, along with a lot of the surrounding infrastructure. The point is that the people who its directed at understand what it means.
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Originally Posted by MrZ
Alternatively, if they want to keep tall vehicles out of the side roads (to prevent damage to trees), why not simply say "vehicles over X metres tall do not enter side tracks" ?
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Works both ways. They also have to prevent damage to vehicles. The simple rule of thumb is that vehicles that are heavy, are usually higher so it's a lot easier to put a load limit on a roadway.