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As a general rule and under normal traffic conditions, is a bus with an MAM of 7,500 kg permitted to drive on the hard shoulder?

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No.

No. In the normal conditions described, the bus uses the carriageway. Article 36 requires specified users to use a passable, sufficiently wide right shoulder when no dedicated route exists; this includes special vehicles with MAM not exceeding 3,500 kg, rather than only below that figure. The Article 36.1 emergency exception for abnormally low speed also requires MAM not exceeding 3,500 kg, so it does not cover this 7,500 kg bus.

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