Argentina: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Córdoba has one driving restriction on our books: the Zona "A" de circulación de vehículos de transporte de cargas (Ordenanza… (heavy vehicle ban). What is a heavy vehicle ban?
Sources last read on 2026-09-14, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2027-03-14.
Córdoba closes the ring around its centre to goods vehicles above a size, and waves the small ones through. Inside Zona A only two classes of lorry may drive at all, and the decree says so with the word "solamente". Vans and lorries up to 7.50 m long and 4,500 kg, and medium lorries up to 8 m and 9,000 kg, may circulate freely, all day, every day.
Semi-heavy lorries up to 10 m and 17,000 kg may circulate only at night, on a window that moves with the season: Monday to Friday from 22:00 to 08:00 between 1 October and 31 March, from 21:00 to 08:00 between 1 April and 30 September, plus Saturdays from 14:00 and the whole of Sundays and public holidays.
Anything above 17,000 kg is on neither list, which is the ban: it may enter only with a permit the Dirección de Tránsito issues for one vehicle, one date, one time and one route, and the decree tells that office not to grant one for an hour the decree itself does not allow.
Stopping to load or unload is a separate and tighter rule, so the small van that may drive through at any hour may still only work inside its own window. Nothing here is charged and nothing here is about exhaust: this scheme sorts vehicles by length, axle configuration and weight, and a Euro 6 lorry and a thirty-year-old one are the same vehicle to it. If you are driving a car, none of it reaches you at any hour.