Córdoba, Argentina · Heavy vehicle ban
Official name Zona "A" de circulación de vehículos de transporte de cargas (Ordenanza Nº 9981, artículo 49 inciso h, reglamentada por Decreto Nº 111/2013)
Partly in force in Córdoba right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 06:05 · America/Argentina/Cordoba
Every timed rule here stands down on "los domingos y/o feriados todo el día", and we hold no official, dated Argentine public-holiday list. Sundays the timetable can see; the feriados it cannot, so on a public holiday falling Monday to Saturday the verdict above warns when the decree would have let the lorry through. That is the safe direction, and it is a gap in our data rather than in the decree. The over-17,000 kg ban is not affected: it carries no holiday exemption to miss.
Every rule here is about a goods vehicle. A car is never in this scheme at any hour, and neither is a van below the smallest class when it is not being used to carry goods.
The over-17,000 kg rule has no window because the decree gives it none: article 1 point 1 permits "solamente" the two classes it lists, and a heavier lorry is on neither list on any day. A permit under point 6 replaces that answer entirely, and its hours are whatever the Dirección de Tránsito wrote on it.
Circulation and loading are two different clocks over the same streets, and both are encoded above. A small van reading "no restriction" for driving may still be committing the loading offence, so read the label on the rule that answers you.
The zone edge decides whether any of this applies, and we hold no map of it — Zona A is published as a list of fourteen street names, so this warning is city-wide and will over-warn well outside the ring.
Two of those fourteen names are the classification risk rather than the edge: the semi-heavy class is defined by axle configuration as well as by length and weight, so a vehicle that is under 10 m and under 17,000 kg but is not a "camión semipesado" of the stated configuration is not squarely inside either list. The decree does not resolve that, and neither do we.
Exempt services — security forces, penitentiary transport, ambulances, fire, public utilities, cash-in-transit and breakdown recovery — circulate "sin ningún tipo de restricción", so no rule above applies to them. Concrete mixers and special machinery are the opposite case: their hours come from a daily authorisation, not from this timetable.
The loading rules encode the hours for the small and medium classes, which is what the decree spells out for Zona A. The semi-heavy class may load in the same night window it may drive in, so the circulation rules already answer that case.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
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.
Municipalidad de Córdoba — Digesto Municipal, Asesoría Letrada: Decreto Nº 111 de 23 de enero de 2013 (Boletín Municipal Nº 3158 de 24 de enero de 2013), article 1, as replaced by Decreto Nº 199 de 8 de febrero de 2013, shown inline in the register's own consolidated text
Nothing is charged and there is nothing to buy. The decree prohibits circulation and permits it by class and by clock; it never prices either, and it offers no day pass, no toll and no fee that buys a heavier lorry into Zona A.
The only money it mentions is a cost, not a charge: where the Dirección de Tránsito grants an exceptional authorisation and orders a municipal traffic-police escort or other safety measures, article 1 point 6 makes the applicant pay for those, and article 1 point 5 says the same of the tasas and aranceles on a special-vehicle authorisation.
Neither is a tariff a driver can look up, and the decree publishes no figure for either.
Inside Zona A, two things are timed separately: driving through, and stopping to load or unload. For driving, vans and lorries up to 7.50 m and 4,500 kg, and medium lorries up to 8 m and 9,000 kg, may circulate freely all day every day — no window at all.
Semi-heavy lorries up to 10 m and up to 17,000 kg may circulate Monday to Friday from 22:00 to 08:00 between 1 October and 31 March, and from 21:00 to 08:00 between 1 April and 30 September; on Saturdays from 14:00; and on Sundays and public holidays all day. Anything heavier than 17,000 kg is listed for no hour of any day and is therefore barred at all times, permit aside.
For stopping, the small and medium classes that may drive at any hour may only halt to load or unload Monday to Friday from 22:00 to 08:00 and from 14:30 to 17:30 between 1 October and 31 March, and from 21:00 to 08:00 and from 14:30 to 17:30 between 1 April and 30 September; on Saturdays until 10:00 and after 14:00; and on Sundays and public holidays all day.
The semi-heavy class may stop to load or unload in the same night window it may drive in, Monday to Friday from 22:00 to 08:00 in summer and from 21:00 to 08:00 in winter, Saturdays from 14:00, Sundays and public holidays all day.
Two categories are outside all of this: emergency, penitentiary, ambulance, fire, public-utility, cash-in-transit and breakdown-recovery vehicles circulate with no restriction whatever, while concrete mixers and special vehicles or machinery need a daily authorisation for each vehicle and, for the latter, each journey — so their hours are whatever that authorisation says.
Municipalidad de Córdoba — Digesto Municipal, Asesoría Letrada: Decreto Nº 111 de 23 de enero de 2013, articles 1 and 3 (the latter rewriting article 75 of Decreto Reglamentario 511/G/99), with the modifications made by Decreto Nº 199 de 8 de febrero de 2013 shown inline
One zone, given as a list of street names and not as a map. Zona A is bounded by Avenida Costanera (N) Ramón B. Mestre; Puente Antártida; Bv.
Mitre; Bv. Guzmán; Bv. Perón; Balcarce; Avenida Poeta Lugones; Plaza España; Estrada; Pueyrredón; Marcelo T. de Alvear; Bv.
San Juan; Artigas; and Urquiza — the ring immediately around the microcentro. That boundary is the one Decreto Nº 199/13 put in place on 8 February 2013, and it is smaller than the one it replaced: Decreto Nº 111/13 had drawn Zona A out to Río Negro, Deán Funes, Avenida Santa Fe, Avenida Castro Barros, Bv. Las Heras, Bv.
Ocampo, Nudo Vial Mitre, Avenida Valparaíso, Enrique Barros, Venezuela, Richardson, Plaza de las Américas and Mayor, and the earlier decree's own text still shows that wording above the replacement. Both are printed here because the register prints both; the later one governs.
Outside Zona A this decree sets no zone and no hours — the four zones A to D that Decreto Nº 1422/09 once drew across the whole city were swept away when Decreto Nº 111/13 rewrote article 1 in full.
What remains outside the ring is article 1 point 7, which lets the Dirección de Tránsito designate individual streets and avenues as authorised, restricted or prohibited for goods vehicles; those designations live on signs and in that office's decisions, not in this decree, and we have not read them.
Municipalidad de Córdoba — Digesto Municipal, Asesoría Letrada: Decreto Nº 199 de 8 de febrero de 2013 (Boletín Municipal Nº 3166 de 15 de marzo de 2013), article 1, replacing the Zona A perimeter and point 1 a) of Decreto Nº 111/2013
The authority's own map: Municipalidad de Córdoba
There is no emission standard to meet, and no version of this scheme has ever had one. Decreto Nº 111/13 sorts goods vehicles by overall length, by axle and tyre configuration (1S-1S, 1S-1D, 1S-2D) and by maximum weight, and by nothing else. Fuel, exhaust class and engine age appear nowhere in it, so no certificate or sticker buys a heavier lorry into Zona A at an hour the decree closes.
Not applicable, for the same reason as the petrol standard. The decree never mentions fuel or exhaust, and the only substance-based rule in it is the opposite kind: article 1 point 3 requires dangerous, toxic, explosive and fuel cargoes to keep to the hours their own vehicle class allows and to carry the markings national, provincial and municipal law demands.
That is about what is in the load, not about what comes out of the pipe.
The city states the penalty as a quantity, not as money, and we hold no figure for the unit it is counted in. Breaching a goods-transport regulation that the preceding articles do not already describe is article 159 of Ordenanza Nº 12468, the Código de Convivencia: "multa de cinco (5) a cincuenta (50) (U.E.M.)", and the judge may add the other sanctions the code allows.
Article 21 of the same code defines the Unidad Económica Municipal as the peso price of eight litres of the lowest-octane petrol at YPF pump prices in Córdoba, and requires the Autoridad de Aplicación to publish that value in the Boletín Oficial and on the municipal website; searching the Digesto for an instrument whose subject names the U.E.M. or the Unidad Económica Municipal returns nothing, so we hold no figure for the value in force and will not convert the range into pesos.
Two further parts of the same code bear on the cost. Article 22 lets an admitted offender pay 60 per cent of the minimum instead of contesting the charge, but paragraph c) expressly withholds that discount from "faltas al transporte de cargas y pasajeros" — this offence is one of the excluded ones.
And article 20 caps any single fine at 15,000 U.E.M., which tells you the unit is small and the ceiling is somewhere else entirely.
Municipalidad de Córdoba — Digesto Municipal, Asesoría Letrada: Decreto Nº 111 de 23 de enero de 2013, article 1 points 1 to 7 and article 3 (article 75 of Decreto Reglamentario 511/G/99 as rewritten), with the Decreto Nº 199/2013 modifications shown inline
Municipalidad de Córdoba — Digesto Municipal, Asesoría Letrada: register record for Decreto Nº 111 de 23 de enero de 2013, Boletín Municipal Nº 3158 de 24 de enero de 2013. This is the operative instrument: it rewrites article 1 of Decreto Nº 1422/2009 in full, repeals that decree's article 4, and rewrites article 75 of Decreto Reglamentario 511/G/99. Watched on the register's own relation graph, which is the part of the page a browser-less fetch can read — the instrument's text is held in a hidden field the monitor cannot see
Municipalidad de Córdoba — Digesto Municipal, Asesoría Letrada: register record for Decreto Nº 199 de 8 de febrero de 2013, Boletín Municipal Nº 3166 de 15 de marzo de 2013, the decree that fixed the Zona A perimeter and the loading window in their present form. Its "Modificada por" panel reads "No se encontraron registros." — the register stating that nothing has acted on it since, and the string that withdraws this record if that ever stops being true
Municipalidad de Córdoba — Digesto Municipal, Asesoría Letrada: register record for Ordenanza Nº 9981, the Código de Tránsito - Código sobre Uso de la Vía Pública, sanctioned 27 October 1998 and published in Boletín Municipal Nº 2143 of 20 November 1998. Article 49 inciso h is the provision the decrees regulate, and this page is how we know the code is alive: its relation graph records amendments in every year from 2014 to 2026, the most recent being Ordenanza Nº 13659 of August 2026
Municipalidad de Córdoba — Digesto Municipal, Asesoría Letrada: register record for Decreto Nº 1422 de 27 de abril de 2009, Boletín Municipal Nº 2906 de 30 de abril de 2009, the regulation of article 49 inciso h that Decreto Nº 111/2013 rewrote. Kept as a source because the four zones A to D it once drew are the scheme this record replaces, and because its relation graph is where a later repeal of the whole line would show
Municipalidad de Córdoba — Digesto Municipal, Asesoría Letrada: register record for the Texto Actualizado of Ordenanza Nº 12468, the Código de Convivencia, carrying the register's own status vocabulary "Texto Actualizado-Vigente". Articles 20, 21, 22 and 159 are the penalty for breaching a goods-transport regulation and the definition of the unit it is counted in
Municipalidad de Córdoba — Departamento Digesto, Asesoría Letrada: "Texto Actualizado de la Ordenanza Nº 9981, Código de Tránsito - Uso de la Vía Pública", 54 pages. Article 49 inciso h requires a vehicle's dimensions, power-to-weight ratio and maximum weight to suit the road and the restrictions the competent authority sets, and the glossary defines CAMIÓN as a goods vehicle over 3,500 kg and CAMIONETA as one up to 3,500 kg (a PDF, so it carries no watched strings)
Municipalidad de Córdoba — Departamento Digesto, Asesoría Letrada: "Texto Actualizado de la Ordenanza Nº 12468, Código de Convivencia", 71 pages, consolidated through Ordenanza Nº 13543 of 3 July 2025. Título Tercero, Capítulo Primero, "Transporte de Carga", articles 155 to 159, and articles 20 to 22 on the Unidad Económica Municipal (a PDF, so it carries no watched strings)
Next scheduled re-check: 2027-03-14.