May a tractor use the expressway or motorway?

The rule

The motorway is only for a motor vehicle that may and can drive at least 60 km/h, the expressway only for a motor vehicle that may and can drive at least 50 km/h. An agricultural or forestry tractor may drive 40 km/h at most, so both roads are forbidden for a tractor, even if it can technically go faster.

How to recognise them

The motorway starts at sign G1, the expressway at sign G3. An expressway is often an N road with separate carriageways and grade-separated junctions. An N road without sign G3 is not an expressway: a tractor may use it, at 40 km/h outside built-up areas.

In the app

The agricultural route in the Truckroute app never uses a motorway or expressway. If you would also rather avoid the busy 80 km/h N roads, choose Avoid N roads and 80 km/h roads under N roads with your vehicle; the route then takes the back roads.

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.
• How fast may a tractor go: 25 or 40 km/h: A tractor may drive 25 km/h, and 40 km/h outside built-up areas and on some roads inside them. This is how the Truckroute app calculates the driving time.
• Sign C8: closed to agricultural vehicles: Sign C8 bans agricultural and forestry tractors, motor vehicles with limited speed and mobile machines. What it means and how the app navigates with it.