Sign C8: closed to agricultural vehicles

What the sign says

Sign C8 means: closed to agricultural and forestry tractors, motor vehicles with limited speed and mobile machines. It applies to every tractor, whether it may drive 25 or 40 km/h, and also to a self-propelled machine such as a combine harvester or a field sprayer.

Sign C9

Sign C9 closes a road to slow traffic in general: riders, livestock, carts, agricultural and forestry tractors, motor vehicles with limited speed, mobile machines, microcars, bicycles, mopeds and invalid carriages. A tractor may not enter there either, and the agricultural route in the app avoids that sign too.

Sign C7 does not apply

Sign C7 closes a road to trucks. A tractor is not a truck, so C7 does not count for a tractor. A truck navigation app sends a tractor around it for nothing; the agricultural route in the Truckroute app does not.

In the app

With the type Agricultural the route avoids every C8 and C9 sign the app can place on a road. While calculating you see the step Checking bans for agricultural vehicles (C8), and if the route skips a road because of it, a balloon on the map says No agricultural vehicles. If every road to your destination is closed to agricultural vehicles, the app tells you. A sub-sign with an exception, for example for local traffic, counts as an exception. The signs on site always prevail.

Navigation for agricultural vehicles is part of the Truckroute app, for iPhone (with CarPlay) and Android. Choose the vehicle type Agricultural, enter the dimensions and weight, and navigate. The route planner on this site calculates for trucks and coaches; only the app calculates the agricultural route.

Read also

• Navigation for agricultural vehicles: Navigate your tractor over roads where you may drive: over the agricultural road map, never on the expressway or motorway, and around sign C8.
• May a tractor use the expressway or motorway?: A tractor may not use the motorway (at least 60 km/h) or the expressway (at least 50 km/h). It may use an 80 km/h N road, at 40 km/h.
• Route over the agricultural road map: How the Truckroute app calculates an agricultural route: the RDW agricultural vehicles map, every road up to 60 km/h, and a notice for every stretch outside it.