{"id":13344,"date":"2025-05-20T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/uae-to-ban-heavy-vehicles-weighing-over-65-tonnes-on-roads-from-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T08:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:54:58","slug":"uae-to-ban-heavy-vehicles-weighing-over-65-tonnes-on-roads-from-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/uae-to-ban-heavy-vehicles-weighing-over-65-tonnes-on-roads-from-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE to ban heavy vehicles weighing over 65 tonnes on roads from 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inner innermixmatch\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imgengine.khaleejtimes.com\/khaleejtimes\/import\/images\/29783472-b4e2-48bd-81c2-37315e1dfa4a-org.jpg?width=1200&amp;format=auto\" alt=\"\" height=\"439\" width=\"780\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Heavy vehicles weighing over 65 tonnes will be prohibited from plying on UAE roads, it was announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Effective next year (2024), it is part of a federal law that regulates the weight of vehicles approved by the UAE Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to \u201cpreserve our advanced infrastructure\u201d and enhance road safety, according to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>A smart electronic gate system will be installed to measure and monitor the weights and dimensions of heavy vehicles.<\/p>\n<h2>Rewards system<\/h2>\n<p>Sheikh Mohammed announced a new system for rewards and incentives for employees of the federal government. The financial and in-kind incentives are for three categories &#8211; outstanding annual performance, exceptional achievements (within the entity) and state-level achievements.<\/p>\n<h2>Labour complaint system<\/h2>\n<p>As per the law, the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation will be responsible for issuing decisions regarding labour&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/uae\/transport\/uae-to-ban-heavy-vehicles-weighing-over-65-tonnes-on-roads-from-2024\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy vehicles weighing over 65 tonnes will be prohibited from plying on UAE roads, it was announced Monday. Effective next year (2024), it is part of a federal law that regulates the weight of vehicles approved by the UAE Cabinet. The aim is to \u201cpreserve our advanced infrastructure\u201d and enhance road safety, according to His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business","7":"category-business-ar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}