The aim of VicRoads Transport Safety Services (TSS) is to improve heavy vehicle road safety and protect roads and bridges from damage, by ensuring that heavy vehicles comply with heavy vehicle regulations. This is done by providing industry liaison, education, accreditation and management of overmass/overdimension load movements, and is complemented by enforcement.

Did you know that TSS:

• Intercepts about 61,500 heavy vehicles a year, checking them for weight, dimensions, roadworthiness, work diary compliance, and other safety related issues;
• Works with other government departments such as the Victoria Police, WorkSafe and EPA Victoria;
• Facilitates the accreditation of operators to schemes such as the mass and maintenance modules of the National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme;
• Issues about 15,000 mass and dimension permits each year to allow the safe movement of large vehicles and indivisible loads, and special purpose vehicles; and
• Escorts vehicles carrying very large loads.

Transport Safety Services officers, located in VicRoads Regional offices, are able to assist industry by:

Issuing overmass and/or overdimension permits;

• Issuing overmass and/or overdimension permits;
• Providing information about the availability of regulatory exemptions and approved routes for vehicles, such as B-doubles;
• Providing information about heavy vehicle accreditation; and
• Providing information about heavy vehicle regulations in Victoria, including work rest hours options and mass and dimension limits.