Maximum vehicle length

Maximum vehicle length

Vehicles (including any load or trailer) longer than the length shown, here 10.5 metres, may not enter.

Regulatory Traffic Signs

What should you do?

If your vehicle or vehicle-and-trailer combination is longer than the figure, do not continue; use the signed alternative route.

How to recognise it

A red ring with a black lorry symbol above two pointers and the length 10.5m.

Common confusion

Compare it with the Maximum vehicle width sign, which shows pointers facing inward across a single figure and no lorry.

Explanation written by the My Driving Test editorial team using the Department of Transport Traffic Signs Manual conventions and the RSA Rules of the Road.

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Regulatory Traffic Signs
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Maximum vehicle length
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