131Using pilot vehicle with a heavy vehicle that contravenes certain conditions of mass or dimension exemption

131 Using pilot vehicle with a heavy vehicle that contravenes certain conditions of mass or dimension exemption

131 Using pilot vehicle with a heavy vehicle that contravenes certain conditions of mass or dimension exemption

(1) The driver of a pilot vehicle must ensure the pilot vehicle does not accompany a heavy vehicle to which a mass or dimension exemption applies if the heavy vehicle, or its use on a road, contravenes a condition of the exemption because the heavy vehicle—

(a) travels on a route not allowed under the exemption; or

(b) travels at a time other than a time allowed under the exemption; or

(c) is accompanied by fewer than the number of pilot or escort vehicles required under the exemption.

Maximum penalty—$6000.

Editorial note.

See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

(2) If a person is both the driver of a pilot vehicle accompanying a heavy vehicle to which a mass or dimension exemption applies and an operator of the heavy vehicle, the person may, in relation to the heavy vehicle or its use on a road contravening a condition of the exemption of the kind contemplated by subsection (1), be prosecuted under section 129 or subsection (1), but not both.