If you are driving a vehicle with the total laden weight 50 t or more, shall you have the passing permission for the overnormative vehicle of the category given?

In the photo, a red tractor unit is pulling a multi-axle vehicle combination with a huge steel tank - a load whose mass is counted in tens of tonnes. Driving a vehicle with an actual total mass of 50 tonnes or more requires a permit for the journey of an abnormal (oversize or overweight) vehicle - answer A.

The Road Traffic Act defines an abnormal vehicle as a vehicle or vehicle combination whose axle loads, dimensions or actual total mass are greater than the permitted values, and such a vehicle may be driven on the road only after obtaining a permit of the appropriate category. The maximum permissible mass of a vehicle combination in Poland is 40 tonnes (42 or 44 tonnes for some five- and six-axle combinations in intermodal transport), so 50 tonnes exceeds this limit and requires a permit - category IV up to 60 tonnes or category V above that. Answer C limits the obligation to national roads, but the rule applies to all public roads. A journey without a permit means a financial penalty imposed by an administrative decision on the entity carrying out the journey.

Legal basis: Art. 2 point 35a and Art. 64 para. 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); Annex No. 1 to the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)