August 16, 2026
Overhang and projection are two different things, and mixing them up is how a legal truck becomes an illegal one. Overhang is the vehicle’s own body extending beyond its axles. Projection is…
August 16, 2026
A permit does not just say yes. It attaches conditions — escorts, flags, lights, boards, speed limits — and those conditions are the real cost of moving an abnormal load. The useful…
August 16, 2026
In this market a truck is its horsepower. Nobody buys a “J5N” — they buy a 28.380, and the 380 is the power. It is the model name, the advert, the resale…
August 16, 2026
Two things decide which loads you see: what type of truck you have, and which corridors it runs. That is the whole matching rule. Everything else about the load — its weight,…
August 16, 2026
Three things on a truck’s spec sheet tell you what it is built for. Not the badge, not the price, and not the horsepower on the door — the axle configuration, the…
August 16, 2026
You can be inside your total legal mass and still be illegal. That single sentence catches more new operators than any other rule in South African road transport, and it is written…
August 16, 2026
The cargo picks the trailer. Not the other way round. This is the single most useful habit for anyone entering road freight, and the most common thing new operators get backwards —…
August 16, 2026
A configuration is how the vehicle is put together — not what it carries. Rigid, articulated, superlink, interlink: each is a different arrangement of chassis and couplings, each has its own legal…
August 15, 2026
1 035 km from Cape Town to East London: the N2 Garden Route to Gqeberha, then the R72 coastal road. Three ports on one lane, one toll plaza, and the road-number difference…
August 15, 2026
The road that takes Eastern Cape freight off the coast: 665 km to Bloemfontein with zero toll plazas, one town every 60 km, and two independently computed corridors that agree on the…
August 15, 2026
The shortest of South Africa's four major freight lanes: 749 km on the N2 Garden Route, Sir Lowry's and Houwhoek passes inside the first 83 km, a town every 30 km, and…
August 15, 2026
The coastal lane between three ports: 941 km on the N2 and R72, ONE payable toll plaza at R162, no mountain passes, and why the cheapest tolls in South Africa are not…
