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  • When are pilot and escort vehicles required?

    A pilot or escort is required only when the applicable notice, permit or jurisdictional condition requires it for the vehicle’s dimensions, route, travel time or other circumstances.

  • What is a terminal access charge?

    A Terminal Access Charge is a fixed landside charge imposed by a container stevedore for a truck or rail operator’s access to terminal services; it is separate from the Vehicle Booking System…

  • What is Performance Based Standards?

    Performance Based Standards is an approval system in which an innovative heavy-vehicle design must obtain design approval, be built and certified for vehicle approval, and then obtain lawful road access through a…

  • What are Higher Mass Limits?

    Higher Mass Limits allow eligible vehicles with road-friendly suspension and the required mass accreditation to carry higher axle-group masses on an approved HML route or area.

  • What is general access for a heavy vehicle?

    A general-access heavy vehicle may use the road network available to general-access vehicles without an individual access permit or notice, provided the vehicle and combination comply with all prescribed mass and dimension…