S.L. 65.8 Art. 6Maximum overall length and gross overall weight.

(1) No motor tractor and trailer and no heavy commercial vehicle shall be allowed to be driven on any road in Malta if its overall length exceeds eighteen metres, or if its total gross laden weight exceeds thirty-two tonnes, in the case of vehicles with three or more axles or twenty-five tonnes in the case of vehicles with less than three axles: Provided that the Commissioner may, in exceptional cases and on good grounds being shown, allow a vehicle of a higher total gross laden weight to be driven on the roads of Malta on such conditions as he may deem fit to impose.

(2) If any member of the Police Force shall have a reasonable cause to suspect that the gross laden weight of any motor tractor and trailer or of any heavy commercial vehicle exceeds the weight established in accordance with sub-regulation (1) of this regulation, he may stop and examine such motor tractor and trailer or heavy commercial vehicle and may direct the driver of such vehicle to have the vehicle weighed at the Customs Weigh Bridge, and if the weight of the motor tractor and trailer, or of the heavy commercial vehicle proves at such weighing to exceed the weight established in accordance with sub-regulation (1) of this regulation, the owner and the driver thereof shall, without prejudice to any criminal or other liability, be liable in solidum to pay to the Commissioner of Police, for such weighing a sum equivalent to the fees established in accordance with the Fees (Customs Weighers) Regulations, for the weighing under the said regulations of the vehicles of the type referred to in this regulation.