Tasmanian Consolidated Regulations Tasmanian Consolidated Regulations
(1) If information on or with a traffic sign applying to a length of road indicates that a vehicle of a particular kind must drive in a particular marked lane, a driver driving a vehicle of that kind on the length of road must drive in the indicated lane, unless the driver is –
(a) avoiding an obstruction; or
(b) obeying a traffic control device applying to the indicated lane; or
(c) permitted to drive in the indicated lane and also another marked lane under another provision of the Road Rules or under another law of this jurisdiction.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 5 penalty units.
Note 1: Length of road, marked lane, obstruction, traffic control device, traffic sign and with are defined in the dictionary.
Note 2: An overhead lane control device may require a driver to leave a marked lane – see rule 152.
Note 3: Drivers of certain long vehicles are permitted to use 2 marked lanes when turning at an intersection – see rule 28 (left turns) and rule 32 (right turns).
(2) A traffic sign mentioned in this rule that is on a road applies to the length of road beginning at the sign and ending at the nearest of the following:
(a) a traffic sign or road marking on the road that indicates that the first traffic sign no longer applies;
(b) the next intersection on the road;
(c) if the road ends at a T-intersection or dead end – the end of the road.
Note 1: Intersection, road marking, T-intersection and traffic sign are defined in the dictionary.
Note 2: Rule 322(1) and (2) deal with the meaning of a traffic sign on a road.
Examples of a traffic sign mentioned in the rule and a traffic sign indicating that the first traffic sign no longer applies.
Trucks use left lane sign
End trucks use left lane sign
Note for diagrams: There is another permitted version of the trucks use left lane sign - see the diagrams in Schedule 3.
