Transport Exemptions - a Guidebook Exceptions (exemptions) for broad, long and heavy road transports Publication TRV 2011: Official website: www.transportoversize.eu Part-financed by the European Union Phone number: +370 46 390857 (European Regional Development Fund) Email address:
[email protected] Title: Transport Exemptions (wide, long and heavy road transports) - a guide Publication number: 2011:057 Publication date: 01-04-2011 Publisher: Swedish Transport Administration Author: Thomas Holmstrand Cover photo: Thomas Holmstrand Layout cover: The studio, Swedish Transport Administration ISBN: 978-91-7467-121-6 Official website: www.transportoversize.eu Part-financed by the European Union Phone number: +370 46 390857 (European Regional Development Fund) Email address:
[email protected] Foreword The Swedish Transport Administration is working with a strong customer perspective and through the effective exercise of its authority. This is the starting point for this guide. For the Swedish Transport Administration, it is important to have a community perspective in its actions regarding transport infrastructure and transport exemptions, and the disruption that these transports cause for other traffic and the service and maintenance of roads. The purpose of the guide is to support exemption authorities (municipalities and state road maintenance authorities), transport buyers, conveyors and others. In their areas of responsibility, the Swedish Transport Administration's regions shall process and make decisions on issues of transport exemptions in a uniform manner throughout the entire country. The guide refers in many cases to the Swedish Transport Administration's practices in different situations. This guide has been produced by the Swedish Transport Administration's transport exemptions unit, which processes and makes decisions on matters concerning transport exemptions within the Swedish Transport Administration on behalf of the regions.