Plan a route over the RDW exemption roads (DWO)

What the DWO does

Enter your dimensions and the DWO colours the roads green where an annual exemption applies. Choose LHV and you see the LHV network. For a one-off exemption you make a route proposal in it. Red dots on a green route mean you may not drive that route.

Navigate with only your permit number

Truckroute is the only navigation app that lets you navigate with just the RDW exemption number from the Digital Exemptions Road Map (DWO). Choose abnormal load, enter the number and Truckroute fetches the permitted route from the RDW itself.

The route follows your exemption 100%: exactly the road sections the RDW permitted, in that order. The navigation never deviates from it, not even for a traffic jam or a closure; you only see those as a warning. If you do leave the route, Truckroute guides you back to the point where you left it.

Truckroute knows every bridge, viaduct, tunnel and level crossing in the Netherlands, more than 15,000 structures. Every structure you pass is shown in the route, with the RDW assessment and the clearance height and weight from the road authority. The exemption itself remains binding.

How Truckroute uses the DWO

Every week Truckroute reads the LHV network and the decision space for abnormal loads from the DWO, and gives every road the maximums of the RDW line that runs over it in the same direction. That way the route planner plans a door-to-door route with your dimensions in one go, with zones, signs, closures and charges included. The DWO itself remains binding: Truckroute does not apply for an exemption and does not replace it.

What is not (yet) included

Truckroute does not yet include temporary restrictions in the DWO, such as a narrower lane at roadworks. Recently opened LHV roads that the RDW lists separately and has not yet added to the map are not included either.

Read also

• Exemption for abnormal loads: annual or one-off: Annual exemption up to 27.50 m, 3.50 m, 4.25 m and 100,000 kg on the green roads, or a one-off exemption per route. How to choose, and how to plan the route.
• The LHV network: which roads an LHV may use: The LHV network is the sum of the roads that national, provincial and municipal authorities open for LHVs. Truckroute shows it and plans only on it.
• Route for abnormal loads: Enter the dimensions of your transport and Truckroute plans over the roads where the RDW can grant an exemption for them: height, width, length and weight.