Brazil: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Campinas has one driving restriction on our books: the Área de restrição de circulação do Anel de Integração Engenheiro… (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 2026-12-13.
Campinas keeps goods vehicles out of its centre by length rather than by weight, and the line is low: a lorry more than 6.3 metres long may not circulate inside the Anel de Integração Engenheiro Rebouças from 06:00 to 20:00 Monday to Friday, or from 06:00 to 14:00 on Saturday. Sunday is untouched.
The ring is a real orbital road round the central districts, and the municipality describes it as the twenty public roads that make it up rather than as a shape — Doutor Abelardo Pompeu do Amaral round through Heitor Penteado, Andrade Neves, Joaquim Vilac and Barão de Monte Alegre — so the area is a list of edges here, as it is in Goiânia.
6.3 metres is short enough that this is not only a heavy-lorry rule: it is the length of the Veículo Urbano de Carga class the municipality itself defines, so the scheme starts exactly where the urban delivery van ends, and a two-axle rigid truck is normally inside it.
The rule is written into Resolução nº 079/2017 of the Secretaria Municipal de Transportes, amended by Resolução nº 349/2019, and neither text is obtainable: the municipal legal library, the transparency portal and the gazette's own full-text search all accept no connection from us, and the traffic authority's website answers "Attack blocked by web application protection".
What the municipality does publish, on a host that answers, is what the rule says — its own service catalogue names the resolution, its articles and its annex, and two press releases from the enforcing agency state the threshold and both timetables word for word. Since 18 August 2025 the rule has had cameras behind it.
EMDEC turned two existing speed and red-light sites into lorry detectors, on Avenida Prestes Maia before Avenida Prefeito Faria Lima and on Avenida Brasil at Avenida Barão de Itapura, both inbound, and it cross-checks every plate against the permit database rather than the vehicle register.
Five months of that produced 563 citations, which the authority published in January 2026 — 357 between August and December 2025 and 206 in January alone. The breach is priced by the publisher itself: a médium-class infraction under the federal traffic code, R$ 130,16 and four licence points.
The way through, if your trade is on the list, is a permit called the ACC or the ACM, bought for 8.85 fiscal units — R$ 45,13 in 2026 — through EMDEC's Observa system, and it does not buy the whole day: an authorised lorry gets 09:00 to 16:00 on weekdays and 06:00 to 09:00 on Saturday.