Traffic Law for Heavy Vehicles in Jordan
This domain tests whether you can apply Jordanian road law to a truck or bus rather than to a private car. Questions are built on the Traffic Law No. 49 of 2008 (as amended) and the instructions issued under it, plus the commercial rules that only apply to goods and passenger transport.
Who regulates what
- Public Security / traffic police enforce the law, record accidents and issue fines; serious offences carry demerit points and can end in licence suspension.
- Drivers and Vehicles Licensing Department (DVLD) issues licences, registers vehicles, runs the technical inspection system.
- Land Transport Regulatory Commission (LTRC) issues operating permits for commercial freight and passenger vehicles and sets route, tariff and vehicle-condition conditions.
Duties that carry the most marks
- Traffic keeps right; overtaking is on the left only, and never where a solid line, sign or restricted view forbids it.
- Goods vehicles and buses must use the right-hand lane on multi-lane roads and stay out of the fast lane except to obey a mandatory sign or turn.
- The general car speed limit is not your limit: a lower posted figure for goods vehicles applies and the vehicle-class plate under a sign governs you.
- After a collision: stop, secure the scene, give first aid, phone 911, exchange details, and remain until police release you. Leaving the scene is a serious offence even in a minor scrape.
Worked example
You are climbing a two-lane desert highway at 40 km/h in a 28 t rigid. A sign shows a red-bordered circle with a red car and a black car, with a plate showing a truck symbol. A queue forms behind you. Reasoning: the circle prohibits overtaking; the plate makes the prohibition apply to goods vehicles. You may not wave cars past into the opposing lane and you may not pull into it yourself. Keep right, hold a steady speed, and signal left only where a broken line and clear view allow a legal overtake.
Traps that cost marks
Assuming the car speed limit applies; treating hazard lights as permission to stop anywhere; driving off after exchanging names; forgetting that an expired LTRC permit is a separate offence from an expired registration.