If you are driving an overnormative vehicle with the width exceeding 3,6 m, are you obliged to be piloted by two assisting pilot vehicles?

In the photo, a vehicle combination carrying a long, curved bridge girder, pulled by two tractor units, takes up the whole width of a roadway closed to traffic, and people in high-visibility vests are working around it. An abnormal (oversize or overweight) vehicle more than 3.6 m wide must be escorted by two escort vehicles (pilot vehicles) - answer A.

The Regulation on the escorting of abnormal vehicles requires two escort vehicles when the journey exceeds at least one of these values: length 30 m, width 3.6 m, height 4.7 m or actual total mass 80 tonnes. A width of more than 3.6 m means that the combination does not fit in one lane and goes into the adjacent lane, and often into the opposite lane - so one escort vehicle drives in front of the combination and stops oncoming traffic, and the other one closes the column and warns those driving behind. For a width of more than 3.2 m but not more than 3.6 m, one escort vehicle is enough. Answer C adds a time condition that the regulations do not provide for.

Legal basis: § 2 para. 1 and 2 of the Regulation of the Minister of Infrastructure of 8 November 2023 on escorting abnormal vehicles; Art. 64 para. 1 point 3 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)