Brazil: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Porto Velho has one driving restriction on our books: the Zona Urbana de Restrição (ZUR) de circulação de veículos de carga e de… (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.
Porto Velho is the inverse of every other Brazilian lorry scheme in this corpus. It does not draw a restricted ring inside the city — it restricts the whole urban area and then names seven ways that are outside it. Lei nº 2.785, de 08 de janeiro de 2021 sorts vehicles by Peso Bruto Total.
Up to 10 tonnes, loaded or empty, you may drive at any hour. From 16 to 24 tonnes — the law's caminhões TOCO and TRUCK — you may drive only between 20:00 and 06:00, with Saturdays opening from 14:00. Above 24 tonnes, the Carretas, you may not drive at all: Art.
2º III bars you "em qualquer dia e horário", with no window, no Sunday and no relief. Carters working by hand or with animals are confined to 20:00–06:00.
The seven exceptions are the through-routes, and they are what makes the city crossable: the BR-319 and the BR-364, the Rua da Beira on both marginals, Avenida dos Imigrantes, the RO-005 or Estrada da Penal, Avenida Farquar between Avenida dos Imigrantes and the Estrada do Belmont, and the Estrada do Belmont itself.
Every rule closes the loading bay at the same time as the street — each one governs "a circulação de veículos automotores e serviço de carga e descarga de qualquer natureza". ⚠️ Three things need saying plainly. First, the law leaves the same hole Cuiabá's does, and it is not a copying slip at our end: Art.
2º runs from "até 10 (dez) toneladas" straight to "de 16 (dezesseis) toneladas", and nothing between 10 and 16 tonnes gross is classified. Unlike Cuiabá's, this gap is partly answered by the regulating decree, which draws its permit line at 10 tonnes rather than 16 — so the executive appears to read the silence as restriction. Both halves are below; neither is encoded as hours, because neither text states any.
Second, this scheme is regulated and its predecessor never was. Lei nº 2.255, de 06 de outubro de 2015 banned vehicles over 5 tonnes from eight named avenues on weekdays, and its own Art. 8º made it conditional on an Executive decree that, measured against the publisher's register, was never issued.
Third, nothing here can be priced. The law states its fines and its permit fee in UPF, the municipal tax unit, and the last act in the register that set a value for the UPF is from 1989, in a currency Brazil has replaced twice since.