Gibraltar
Cap in the app: 35 km/h.
Speed
**35 km/h for motor vehicles drawing trailers, on every road in Gibraltar.** Schedule 3 has two rows and no road classes: a car on its own, not being an omnibus, steam-driven or a goods vehicle, gets 50. A motorhome without a trailer therefore sits in the upper row. The figure is the lowest outfit figure in the whole set by a wide margin and looks like a typing error until you see that the schedule is built around steam wagons. Reg. 44 lets a sign lower but not raise.
Source. Control of Traffic Regulations.pdf), reg. 43 and Schedule 3, version Last Update 02 Jul 2026
Dimensions — two sets of rules on the same road
Gibraltar is six square kilometres and three instruments. Two of them set dimensions, and they set different dimensions with different consequences. Reading only one gives the wrong answer in both directions.
The ordinary set of rules is Schedule 4 to the Vehicles (Construction, Equipment and Maintenance) Regulations, and it looks like the rest of Europe. Regulation 5A(1) pulls everything in:
5A.(1) Subject to subregulation (2) the maximum dimensions of motor vehicles, trailers, semi-trailers and vehicle combinations are to be calculated in accordance with the provisions in Schedule 4 and Part 2 of Schedule 5.
No vehicle category, no goods clause. It is Latvia's and Croatia's pattern, not Slovenia's: the provision is written on vehicle types and not on tovorno vozilo. And vehicle combination is defined in reg. 2 without restriction — "(a) a road train consisting of a motor vehicle coupled to a trailer" — so a car with a caravan is a road train and reaches the 18.75 row.
The Gibraltarian set of rules is regulation 6, and its figures sit at an entirely different level:
6.(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, a vehicle is deemed to be an oversized vehicle if any of the following dimensions are exceeded– (a) the overall width of a motor vehicle or trailer exceeds 2.14 metres; (b) the height of a motor vehicle exceeds 3.65 metres; (c) the overall length of an articulated vehicle exceeds 6.70 metres; (d) the overall length of a motor vehicle other than an articulated vehicle exceeds 6.40 metres or have a wheel base exceeding 4.10 metres; …
Every motorhome and every caravan worth the name passes at least one of them. But an oversized vehicle is not a prohibition but a classification, in the same way as izredni prevoz in Slovenia and Slovakia. The consequence inside the instrument is regulation 7: a red "O" on a white ground, 20 × 30 cm, at the front on the left and at the rear on the left, with a stroke width of 4 cm and a 4 cm margin. Reg. 7(2) makes it an offence to drive an oversized vehicle without the mark. Reg. 6(2) and 6(3) are repealed, so that is the whole consequence — there.
Outside the instrument the consequence is sharper. Control of Traffic Regulations reg. 19(1):
No person shall use or cause or permit to be used within the Inner City an oversized vehicle or a caravan.
So two independent grounds: the outfit is oversized, and it is moreover a caravan. The Inner City is the old walled town, defined street by street in Traffic Act 2005-26 s. 2 — north of the line Waterport Gates–Willis's Gate, east of the line Willis's Gate–Flat Bastion Gate, south of the lines Flat Bastion Gate–Prince Edward's Gate–Southport Gate–Line Wall, and west of Line Wall back to Waterport Gates. The exceptions in reg. 19(3) are the fire service, the defence forces and an individual permit from the government.
And caravan catches the motorhome too. Reg. 2 of the dimensions instrument:
"caravan" means any structure designed or adapted for human habitation which is capable of being moved from one place to another whether by being towed or by being transported on a motor vehicle or trailer, and any motor vehicle whilst being used for human habitation;
The Control of Traffic Regulations do not define the word themselves but take it from there — reg. 19(2) expressly cross-refers to reg. 6(1) of the dimensions instrument, so the two are read together.
Source. Vehicles (Construction, Equipment and Maintenance) Regulations, subsidiary legislation under ss. 57 and 76 of the Traffic Act, in force 1.4.1958, in consolidation Last Update 01 Aug 2026 (PDF.pdf)). Traffic Act 2005-26, Last Update 15 Jul 2026 (PDF.pdf)). Control of Traffic Regulations, in force 15.3.1960, Last Update 02 Jul 2026 (PDF.pdf)).
| Dimension | Gibraltar | Article |
|---|---|---|
| Width, car | 2.55 m (2.60 refrigerated vehicles) | Sch. 4 Table 2 entries 1–3 |
| Width, trailer | none — the schedule has no trailer row | Sch. 4 Table 2 |
| Height | 4.00 m (all motor vehicles) | Sch. 4 Table 3 |
| Length, caravan | 12.00 m (a trailer) | Sch. 4 Table 1 entry 2 |
| Length, motorhome | 12.00 m (a wheeled motor vehicle other than a bus) | Sch. 4 Table 1 entry 1 |
| Length, outfit | 18.75 m (a road train) | Sch. 4 Table 1 entry 4 |
Four things about that table are worth writing out.
The cell for trailer width is empty by reading, not by laziness. Table 2 has three entries: any wheeled motor vehicle 2.55, a refrigerated motor vehicle 2.60, and refrigerated superstructures 2.60. None of them is a trailer. Table 3 has a single entry, all motor vehicles. Table 1 on the other hand names the trailer in plain words in entry 2 and entry 9. The same schedule, the same drafter, three tables: the trailer is in the length and missing from the width and the height. To write 2.55 in the trailer cell would be to fill in a figure for the legislator.
The headings prove nothing, the entries do. Table 1 is headed "The maximum overall lengths for motor vehicles are−" and nevertheless contains two trailer rows. The heading words motor vehicles are therefore careless and cannot carry the conclusion that Tables 2 and 3 exclude trailers. What carries it is that the rows are missing.
2.14 does not stand in the table, and that is a choice. The column is called "Width, car" and must answer what is permitted, not what triggers a marking duty. A vehicle over 2.14 m may drive in Gibraltar — it must merely carry its red "O" and stay out of the Inner City. Had 2.14 stood in the cell, the dimension guard would have warned "too wide" for essentially every outfit that ever comes here, and warned about something that is not prohibited. That is exactly the false positive the site exists to avoid. The rule therefore stands in prose, where it can say what it actually says.
The height of 4.00 is never reached by a caravan, and that makes the question academic. Table 3 names only motor vehicles, so read strictly it applies to the motorhome and not to the caravan. The app has only one height cell per country and would therefore measure a caravan against 4.00 too. No caravan in Europe comes near, so the reading cannot give a false trigger, and a separate trailer-height cell would have been an empty mechanism. Hungary is the only country where the two heights differ in practice, and there the cell exists.
**The open question: is a caravan a trailer?** Traffic Act s. 2 defines:
"trailer" means a vehicle without motive power other than a side-car attached to a motor cycle designed solely or principally for the carriage of persons or goods and drawn by a motor vehicle.
A caravan is built to live in, not to carry persons or goods, and the shape of the objection is exactly Slovenia's priklopnik … za prevoz blaga. Three things nevertheless separate the cases, and all three point the same way. The qualification reads persons or goods, so materially wider than goods alone. Schedule 4's rows carry no goods word at all — compare Slovenia's motorno tovorno vozilo. And there is no scope provision lifting out M1: on the contrary, reg. 6(1)(a) expressly governs the width of "a motor vehicle or trailer", which a reading placing caravans entirely outside the instrument cannot explain. The drafter moreover distinguishes the concepts where needed: semi-trailer and category O trailer are both defined "constructed and equipped for the carriage of goods", while the general trailer is not. The figures therefore stand in the cells. The motorhome needs none of these turns — it is a motor vehicle without a detour.
The measuring method. Reg. 5D: "The maximum authorised dimensions specified in Schedules 4 and 5 shall be measured in accordance with Annex I to Directive 2007/46/EC with no positive tolerances." The width is measured under reg. 2 without mirrors, direction indicators and tyre bulge under load.
The exceptions for foreign vehicles do not cover what one first thinks. Reg. 5E(1) says that a vehicle registered in another member state may not be obstructed because of a weight or a dimension that is not in Schedule 4 or 5 — that is, precisely the opposite of excepting it from the dimensions that are there. Reg. 5E(2) excepts vehicles whose home authority has allowed more than Table 3 (the height) and Schedule 5 (the weights), but not more than Tables 1 and 2. The length and the width in Tables 1 and 2 therefore apply to the visitor in full. Reg. 3(1) makes the whole instrument applicable to "wheeled traffic" without a residence condition, and reg. 3A sets the penalty at a level 3 fine.
The speed is the real find
The dimensions are EU-normal. The speed is not. Control of Traffic Regulations reg. 43 refers to Schedule 3, which has two rows and no road classes:
Motor vehicles other than omnibuses, steam driven vehicles, goods vehicles and motor vehicles drawing trailers — 50 kilometres per hour.
Omnibuses, steam driven vehicles, goods vehicles and motor vehicles drawing trailers — 35 kilometres per hour.
Thirty-five kilometres an hour, for every car towing anything, on every road in Gibraltar. It is the lowest outfit figure in the whole set by a wide margin — the next lowest is Albania's 70 — and it sounds like a typing error right up until you see that the schedule is built around steam-driven vehicles and omnibuses and is therefore old. Reg. 44 lets a sign lower but not raise.
A motorhome without a trailer sits in the upper row: it is not an omnibus, not steam-driven and not a goods vehicle. So 50. The cap in the app is one figure per country and applies only to outfits, so 35 is the right figure there.
The guard and the map
Gibraltar lies entirely inside Spain's outer contour and cannot fall silent by being absent: the Spanish polygon answered for the place, with Spanish figures. The territory has therefore since 2026-08-09 had an area of its own taken from Natural Earth 10m — 50m lacks it entirely — and until now lay in the generator's TYST with husvagn: 0, that is, silence with a name on it. With the three instruments read the zero is exchanged for 35 and the country gets a row in the dimensions table. That was the only way out of TYST, and it still applies to Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City. See Where the guard sees nothing.
Method note: the version in force lies in the iframe src, not in data-pdf. On gibraltarlaws.gov.gi a statute page lists its historical versions as data-pdf="…/viewerjs/?zoom=page-width#../../../uploads/…pdf", while the consolidation in force exists only in the page's iframe src. The first retrieval of the Traffic Act took the most recent data-pdf entry, 2005-26(25-06-26).pdf, and that text begins with "This version is out of date" — a warning visible only if you extract and read, not if you assume the newest link is the newest text. The right file, 2005-26(15-07-26).pdf, lacks the banner. All three instruments above have been checked on that point. The page moreover carries Last Update: in plain text to check against. /legislation-index is rendered in the browser and is unusable for curl; ?topic=134 on the other hand lists all 567 traffic instruments in static HTML. See metod.md.
Method note: a definition can have its users in a sister instrument. grep -i caravan over the dimensions instrument gave exactly one hit — the definition itself — and over the Traffic Act none. The conclusion "defined but unused" was written down and was wrong: the word carries the whole of reg. 19(1) in the Control of Traffic Regulations, a third instrument that had not then been retrieved. A word defined without being used is a signal to look further, not a conclusion.