(1)  If the driver of a truck or bus is driving on a length of road to which a trucks and buses low gear sign applies, the driver must drive the truck or bus in a gear that is low enough to limit the speed of the truck or bus without the use of a primary brake.

Penalty: Fine not exceeding 15 penalty units.

Note : Bus , length of road and truck are defined in the dictionary.

(2)  Subrule (1) does not apply to the driver of a bus if information on or with the sign indicates that it applies only to trucks.

Note : With is defined in the dictionary.

(3)  A trucks and buses low gear sign on a road applies to the length of road beginning at the sign and ending:

(a) if information on or with the sign indicates a distance – at that distance on the road from the sign; or

(b) in any other case – at an end trucks and buses low gear sign on the road.

(4)  In this rule,

primary brake means the footbrake, or other brake, fitted to a truck or bus that is normally used to slow or stop the vehicle.

Trucks and buses low gear sign

End trucks and buses low gear sign

Note for diagrams : There are a number of other permitted versions of the trucks and buses low gear sign , and another permitted version of the end trucks and buses low gear sign – see the diagrams in Schedule 3 .