What's the maximum speed at which you can drive a tractor if you transport a team of labourers in a trailer?
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Correct answer
A. 20 km/h.
Explanation
In the photo, workers in yellow work clothes are riding on the cargo bed of a yellow vehicle. When you drive an agricultural tractor that is carrying a team of labourers in its trailer, you can drive at a speed of no more than 20 km/h - answer A.
Carrying people in a trailer is prohibited as a rule, but the Road Traffic Act makes an exception for escort guards, teams of labourers and people doing loading work in a trailer pulled by an agricultural tractor. The exception applies only when all the conditions are met at the same time: no more than 5 people are carried, standing people hold on to handles, nobody is between the load and the front wall of the trailer, and the combination does not exceed 20 km/h. 30 km/h (answer B) and 40 km/h (answer C) are too much - the people in the trailer have no seat belts or seats, and when braking or on a bump they easily lose their balance and fall out. Start off and brake gently, and before a bend slow down more than usual, because the people riding at the back cannot see what is happening in front of the tractor.
Legal basis: Art. 63 para. 3 point 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)