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Signals
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General advice
Alcohol and drugs Tramways
Vehicle Markings
Large goods vehicle rear markings
Motor vehicles over 7500 kilograms maximum gross weight and trailers over 3500 kilograms maximum gross weight

A picture of two children inside a yellow square 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 metres (optional on combinations between 11 and 13 metres)

Hazard warning plates
Certain tank vehicles carrying dangerous goods must display hazard information panels

An orange rectangle containing the words 2YE above the number 1089 above the words Newtown-on-Moors (0123) 45678 and a red diamond containgpicture of fire, the words Flammable liquid and the number 3 inside a white circle 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

A white diamond containing a picture of a skull and crossbones, the word Toxic and the number 6 A yellow diamond containing a picture of a burning circle, the words Oxidising Agent and the number 5.1 in a white circle A green diamond containing a picture of a gas canister, the words Compressed Gas and the number 2 in a white circle A white diamond containing a picture of a fan, the words Radioactive and the number 7 A half red and half white diamond containing a picture of a fire, the words Spontaneously Combustable and the number 4 in a white circle A half black and half white diamond containing a picture of a liuid being poured out of two test tubes and melting a bar and a hand, the words Corrosive and the number 8 in a white circle
Toxic substance Oxidising substance Non- flammable compressed gas Radioactive substance Spontaneously combustible substance Corrosive substance

Projection markers
A red a white chevron inside a red outlined triangle A red a white chevron inside a red outlined triangle pointing down
Side marker End marker

Both required when load or equipment (eg crane jib) overhangs front or rear by more than two metres