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ROAD TRAFFIC CODE 2000 - REG 137

137 .         Marked lanes required to be used by particular kinds of vehicles

        (1)         If information on or with a traffic sign applying to a length of carriageway 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 carriageway shall drive in the indicated lane, unless the driver is —

            (a)         avoiding an obstruction; or

            (b)         obeying a traffic-control signal applying to the indicated lane.

        Modified penalty: 1 PU

        (2)         A traffic sign that is on a carriageway applies to the length of carriageway beginning at the sign and ending at the nearest of the following:

            (a)         a traffic sign or road marking on the carriageway that indicates that the first traffic sign no longer applies;

            (b)         if the carriageway ends at a T–intersection or dead end — the end of the carriageway.

Examples of a traffic sign, 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    There is another permitted version of the “trucks use left lane” sign.



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