Heavy Vehicles Rules and Regulations

Be a responsible heavy vehicle operator and follow the rules and regulations below.

Secure your load

Your load must be adequately secured so that it will not move or fall from your vehicle. You must also cover your load if you are carrying something that is likely to be dislodged or blown off. This is to protect the safety of pedestrians and other road users.

Parking

If your vehicle is heavier than 4.5 tonnes and/or longer than 7.5 metres, you have a one-hour time limit for parking on ANY road or street in the City of Ryde.

You are encouraged to park your vehicle on private property (subject to DA consent) or to make alternative arrangements to park in an approved commercial premises.

City of Ryde Rangers work in partnership with the Roads and Maritime Service and the NSW Police to ensure safety on our roads.

There are heavy penalties for breaches of these rules.

Local roads are for local traffic

There are a number of roads in the City of Ryde that are ‘load limited’. The roads listed below have a three tonne load limit. If your combined vehicle tare weight and load exceeds 3 tonne, you can only use a limit notice road if the destination of the vehicle lies in or on the limit notice road and there is no alternative route by which to reach that destination.

The aim of this restriction is to:

• Protect the surfaces of smaller roads that were not built to handle heavy traffic
• Prevent heavy vehicles using quiet local roads as shortcuts

Three-tonne 'load limited' roads in the City of Ryde