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Signs & markings
Light signals controlling traffic  
Signals to other road users  
Signals by authorised persons  
 
Traffic signs
Signs giving orders  
Warning signs  
Direction signs  
Information signs  
Road works signs  
 
Markings
Road markings  
Vehicle markings  
 
 

Highway code
Vehicle markings
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      Large goods vehicle rear markings
Motor vehicles over 7500 kilograms maximum gross weight and trailers over 3500 kilograms maximum gross weight
 
Others
Highway Code Signs - A picture of two children inside a yellow square		 Highway Code Signs - Five red and yellow chevroned rectangles and three yellow rectangles with red outlines with the word Long Vehicle inside them
School bus (displayed in front or rear
window of bus or coach)		 The vertical markings are also required to be fitted to builders' skips placed in the road, commercial vehicles or combinations longer than 13 meters (optional on combinations between 11 and 13 meters)
     Hazard warning plates
Certain tank vehicles carrying dangerous goods must display hazard information panels
 

Highway Code Signs - Hazard warning plates

Highway Code Signs - An orange rectangle
 
The panel illustrated is for flammable liquid.
Diamond symbols indicating other risks include:		The above panel will be displayed by
Vehicles carrying certain dangerous goods in packages
   
Highway Code Signs - Toxic substance Highway Code Signs - Oxidizing substance Highway Code Signs - Non- flammable compressed gas Highway Code Signs - Radioactive substance Highway Code Signs - Spontaneously combustible substance Highway Code Signs - Corrosive substance

Toxic substance

Oxidizing substance

Non- flammable compressed gas

Radioactive substance

Spontaneously combustible substance

Corrosive substance

 
     Projection markers
Highway Code Signs - A red a white chevron inside a red outlined triangle Highway Code Signs - A red a white chevron inside a red outlined triangle pointing down
Side markerEnd marker
 
Both required when load or equipment (eg crane jib) overhangs front or rear by more than two metres
   
 
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