Goiânia, Brazil · Heavy vehicle ban
Official name Proibição de circulação de Veículos Pesados Tipo CTV (caminhões cegonha) no Perímetro Urbano de Goiânia
Not in force in Goiânia right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 06:05 · America/Sao Paulo
Starts Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 07:00 local time.
The gaps this schedule shows are real everywhere in Goiânia except inside the central zone. A car transporter over 14 metres is also over the 8.30-tonne and 8.0-metre thresholds of the Zona de Restrição de Tráfego I, which closes its bounded central perimeter continuously from 07:00 to 19:00 — so a driver who reads "open at 12:00" here and drives into the Setor Central is in breach of the other rule. The two schemes overlap in the vehicles they catch and differ in the hours they impose, which is the same trap Manaus sets with its two weight bands, one step out into geography.
The highway exception is a road exception, not a journey exception. Staying on the BR-153, the BR-060 or a state road through the município keeps a cegonha outside this ban at any hour; turning off onto a municipal street during a closed window puts it back inside. This schedule cannot see which road a vehicle is on, so it warns across the whole municipal extent.
There is no public-holiday clause, because none of the three instruments has one, and this is the twelfth Brazilian record running without a sourced Brazilian holiday calendar. The direction of the error is unknown rather than merely unencoded.
Weekends are shown open because the publisher restricts nothing on them. Article 4 says "de segunda a sexta-feira" and mentions neither Saturday nor Sunday.
The 14-metre threshold is the current rule and not the original one. Between 20 October 2011 and the commencement of Portaria nº 70/2013 - SMT, this ban applied to every CTV combination regardless of length. Anything written about Goiânia's car-transporter ban before 2014 describes a wider rule than the one encoded here.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Goiânia keeps car transporters out of the entire city at the three busiest parts of every weekday.
Article 4 of Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT, as replaced in 2013, bans "Veículos Pesados Tipo CTV – Combinações para Transporte de Veículos, Caminhões Cegonha" longer than 14 metres from the whole Perímetro Urbano de Goiânia from Monday to Friday between 07:00 and 09:00, between 11:00 and 14:00 and between 17:00 and 19:00 — with one carve-out, the state and federal highways that cut across the municipality, which stay open at every hour.
This is not the city's central lorry zone and it should not be read as part of it: the Zona de Restrição de Tráfego I is a bounded perimeter in the Setor Central and runs a single 07:00–19:00 window against weight and length, while this rule is city-wide, applies to one named vehicle type, and lets a cegonha work the two gaps in between — 09:00 to 11:00 and 14:00 to 17:00 — everywhere except inside that zone.
The threshold is the municipality's second attempt: the 2011 portaria banned every CTV combination regardless of length, and Portaria nº 70/2013 - SMT narrowed it to those over 14 metres, which made the rule more permissive rather than less.
The price of a breach is the one thing this record cannot give: article 8 sends it to article 187 of the Brazilian traffic code and states no sum, so the penalty here is null with a note rather than a figure taken out of the national table.
That the rule still binds is settled by the mayor himself — a veto message of 15 July 2025 names Portaria nº 224 of 2011, nº 70 of 2013 and nº 21 of 2015 as the municipal rules that govern heavy-vehicle traffic and its hours and routes, and strikes down a bill for disregarding them.
Agência Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (AMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT, article 4, published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 5.214 of 21 October 2011. The original text of this ban: the vehicle type, the three weekday windows, the whole urban perimeter as its area and the highway exception. The url watched here is the municipality's own SILEG index of that edition, which returns the gazette's extracted text as JSON; the edition itself is a 3.77 MB PDF at https://www.goiania.go.gov.br/Download/legislacao/diariooficial/2011/do_20111021_000005214.pdf and cannot be watched under D-077
There is no charge. This is a prohibition, not a charging scheme: article 4 forbids the movement outright in its three windows and offers no toll, no day pass and no payable entry that would buy a car transporter into the city during them.
The only flexibility the portaria contains is article 5, which lets the authority set different conditions and furnish a special authorisation "em situações extraordinárias", and it describes that as something granted rather than something bought.
Monday to Friday, in three separate windows: 07:00 to 09:00, 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 19:00.
The publisher writes them out in full — "de segunda a sexta-feira das 7h às 9h, das 11h às 14h e das 17h às 19h" — and the shape is unusual for this corpus, because the middle window is the lunch peak rather than a morning or evening one, and because the gaps it leaves are real working time: a car transporter may run the city from 09:00 to 11:00, from 14:00 to 17:00 and from 19:00 through the night.
Seven hours closed, and the rest open. There is no Saturday window, no Sunday window and no public-holiday clause in any of the three instruments. The 2011 original used the same three windows written as "07h00min às 09h00min" and so on, and 2013 changed nothing about them — only the vehicles they catch.
Secretaria Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (SMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 70/2013 - SMT, article 2, published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 5.697 of 14 October 2013 and signed on 10 October 2013 by the Secretary, Patricia Pereira Veras. It restates article 4 in full with the 14-metre threshold inserted and the three windows unchanged. The gazette itself is a 4.24 MB PDF at https://www.goiania.go.gov.br/Download/legislacao/diariooficial/2013/do_20131014_000005697.pdf
The whole urban perimeter of Goiânia, minus the highways that cross it. Article 4 puts the ban "no Perímetro Urbano de Goiânia" and excepts "as rodovias estaduais e federais que cortam o Município de Goiânia", and that is the entire description the municipality gives: there is no list of roads, no map and no coordinate anywhere in the three instruments.
It is a city-wide rule with a corridor exemption rather than a zone, which is what separates it from the Zona de Restrição de Tráfego I — a car transporter that keeps to the BR-153, the BR-060 or the state highways through the municipality is outside this ban at every hour, and one that leaves them for a municipal street is inside it wherever that street is.
No geometry for the "Perímetro Urbano" is published, and it is not the same thing as the município, which includes rural land; the município itself was measured on 14 September 2026 from OpenStreetMap boundary relation 334547 and spans 41.99 km north to south by 39.27 km east to west, reaching 32.58 km from the city anchor.
This record warns across that whole extent on purpose, because the urban perimeter sits inside it and warning over a piece of farmland costs a driver nothing.
Agência Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (AMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT, article 4, which names the Perímetro Urbano de Goiânia as the area and the state and federal highways as the exception, and gives no further description of either. Read through the municipality's own SILEG index of Diário Oficial do Município nº 5.214 of 21 October 2011
There is no emission standard to meet. This rule asks two questions and neither is about the engine: is the vehicle a CTV combination — a car transporter — and is it longer than 14 metres. No Euro class, PROCONVE phase, fuel type or registration year appears in any of the three instruments.
Not applicable, for the same reason as the petrol standard. What this rule uses instead of an emission class is a vehicle category written out by name — "Veículos Pesados Tipo CTV – Combinações para Transporte de Veículos, Caminhões Cegonha" — which makes it the narrowest vehicle test in the Brazilian part of this corpus.
Weight is not mentioned at all: a 40-tonne tipper is outside this rule and a car transporter of 14.5 metres is inside it.
The publisher has not stated an amount. Article 8 of Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT covers the whole portaria, this article included, and says only that a breach "acarretará as sanções previstas no Artigo 187 do Código de Trânsito Brasileiro". It names the federal article and no sum, no infraction class and no licence points, and neither later portaria adds them.
Picking the figure out of the national fine table would be our arithmetic presented as the publisher's, which D-053 forbids, so the amount is null here as it is in the companion record. A driver should assume a real fine of the kind article 187 carries.
Agência Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (AMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT, articles 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, read together with article 2 of Portaria nº 70/2013 - SMT for the 14-metre threshold. These carry the vehicle type, the three windows, the highway exception, the discretionary authorisation, the scope of each exemption list and the federal article a breach is sent to. Read through the municipality's own SILEG index of Diário Oficial do Município nº 5.214 of 21 October 2011
Agência Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (AMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT, published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 5.214 of 21 October 2011, pages 9–12, signed on 18 October 2011 by the AMT's president, Miguel Tiago da Silva. Article 4 is this scheme; articles 5 to 8 govern it alongside the zone, and article 10 brings the portaria into force on 20 October 2011. The same instrument is the primary source for Goiânia's other record, the Zona de Restrição de Tráfego I, and the two are deliberately separate because the rules are: different vehicles, different hours, different areas. The url here is the municipality's own SILEG index, which returns the gazette's extracted text as JSON and can therefore be monitored; the edition itself is a 3.77 MB PDF at https://www.goiania.go.gov.br/Download/legislacao/diariooficial/2011/do_20111021_000005214.pdf
Secretaria Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (SMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 70/2013 - SMT, published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 5.697 of 14 October 2013. Article 2 replaces article 4 of the 2011 portaria with the text in force today, inserting "acima de 14 (catorze) metros" and leaving the three windows, the urban perimeter and the highway exception exactly as they were. Article 3 delays it by 180 days from publication, which by our arithmetic and not the publisher's is 12 April 2014
Gabinete do Prefeito, Prefeitura de Goiânia — Mensagem de Veto Integral ao Autógrafo de Lei nº 134 de 2025, signed by the mayor Sandro Mabel on 15 July 2025 and published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 8.578 of the same day. The currency evidence for both Goiânia records: the mayor vetoes a bill for disregarding "a Lei nº 9.028, de 2011, e as Portarias nº 224, de 2011, nº 70, de 2013, e nº 21, de 2015, da Secretaria de Engenharia de Trânsito, que tratam da restrição de tráfego de veículos pesados e disciplinam horários, rotas e zonas de limitação". "Rotas" is the word that reaches this record rather than the zone one — the car-transporter ban is about where a vehicle may drive across the city rather than about a bounded area, and the mayor's sentence covers both
Prefeitura de Goiânia — SILEG, the municipality's own full-text index of the Diário Oficial, asked how many gazettes have ever carried the phrase "Caminhões Cegonha" and which is the newest. Two, and the newest is the 2013 amendment. This is the change detector for this record rather than an archival source: the phrase is the vehicle type the rule names, so a new gazette using it — an amendment, a revocation, a new threshold — moves both the count and the identifier, the record is withdrawn from the index, and a cycle goes and reads it. The index holds 33,228 documents and answers 0 for a control word, so a zero here would be a real zero
Secretaria Municipal de Engenharia de Trânsito, Prefeitura de Goiânia — the secretariat's own standing page, which states who holds this power now. The instruments were issued by the Agência Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade in 2011 and by the Secretaria Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade in 2013; Lei Complementar nº 335 of 1 January 2021, amended by Lei Complementar nº 382 of 2024, makes the Secretaria Municipal de Engenharia de Trânsito the municipal executive traffic body with the enforcement and penalty powers this ban runs on
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-13.
A city can run more than one scheme, and they do not always answer the same question.