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Kotor has one driving restriction on our books: the Naredba o privremenoj zabrani saobraćaja teretnih motornih vozila i… (heavy vehicle ban). What is a heavy vehicle ban?
Sources last read on 2026-09-20, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-10-15.
The road that climbs out of Kotor in twenty-five hairpins to Krstac, and the road up Lovćen to the mausoleum, are closed to buses and motor caravans every hour of every day until 15 October 2026, and to lorries over 7.5 tonnes from 07:00 to midnight.
The instrument is an order (naredba) made by the director of the Uprava policije — the Police Directorate — under article 130 of the Law on Road Traffic Safety, announced by the Ministry of the Interior on 12 June 2026 and in force from 15 June 2026, replacing an earlier order numbered 341/26-24502 of 15 May 2026. Two of its restrictions still run and one has already ended, and this record keeps them apart.
Still running to 15 October 2026: goods vehicles whose maximum permissible mass exceeds 7.5 t are banned every day from 07:00 to 24:00 on the regional road R-1 from Kotor — Trojica, the junction with the M-1 — up to Krstac, the junction with the R-25 in Cetinje municipality; and buses of categories M2 and M3, which the order glosses as light and heavy buses and so-called kombi vehicles, together with special passenger vehicles for living in, the so-called campers, are banned around the clock on that same R-1 in the Njeguši-to-Kotor direction and on the R-25.1 between Međuvršje and Lovćen, from the car park to the mausoleum, in both directions.
Already ended: the same order banned lorries over 7.5 t from the coastal and inland trunk roads — the M-1 from the Debeli Brijeg crossing through Herceg Novi, Kotor, Tivat, Budva, Bar and Ulcinj to Sukobin, the M-2 from Podgorica to Petrovac and from Podgorica to Kolašin, and the M-10 from Podgorica through Cetinje to Budva — on weekday evenings from 19:00 and at weekends from 17:00, but only from 15 June to 15 September 2026.
That part of the order expired five days before this record was written and is not in force now. Nothing here is an annual rule. The Police Directorate issues a fresh order each season, this one names 2026 in every paragraph, and this record ends with it.