Approved areas or routes

Vehicles operating under a mass or dimension exemption (notice or permit) in South Australia must travel within stated areas and/or on stated routes.

Prior to any journey, drivers must determine the approved route via the RAVnet online map system.

Temporary detours and road works

For a list of roadworks, incidents and planned events in South Australia please refer to www.traffic.sa.gov.au.

Rocky River Bridge, Augusta Highway (near Crystal Brook)

The Rocky River Bridge on the Augusta Highway near Crystal Brook is being upgraded, with works scheduled to commence from Monday 6 August 2018 and are expected to be completed by late December 2018, weather permitting. The upgrades will include bridge and road shoulder widening and installation of new guard rails and bridge barriers.

Lane and speed restrictions will be in place during these works. An appropriate heavy vehicle detour is being finalised.

Additional details for heavy vehicles will be added as they become available

Click here for more on the Rocky River Bridge upgrade and other Regional Bridge projects.

Approved areas

Approved area maps that are referenced in mass or dimension exemptions are:.

• Adelaide and Adelaide Hills area - transport of sheaved hay (196.7 KB PDF)
• Adelaide Hills area (249.2 KB PDF)
• Adelaide Hills area (including Mount Barker inset) (270.7 KB PDF)
• Adelaide Metropolitan area (239.9 KB PDF)
• Central Adelaide area (240.6 KB PDF)
• Northern Adelaide area (253.8 KB PDF)
• Optus clearance map (219.8 KB PDF)
• Southern Adelaide area (167.9 KB PDF)

Preferred routes

When operating an oversize vehicle, the maps below depict the preferred routes for travel. If your operating requirements cannot be met by a gazette notice, you will need to apply to for a permit.

• Route network for oversize/overmass loads (3.7 MB PDF)
• Principal routes for overdimensional loads - state map (1.3 MB PDF)
• Principal routes for oversize loads - north metropolitan Adelaide area (1.3 MB PDF)
• Principal routes for oversize Loads - south Metropolitan Adelaide area (1.2 MB PDF)
• Principle routes for oversize loads - at towns (OD routes) (432.8 KB PDF)