Montenegro
Cap in the app: 80 km/h.
Speed
80 km/h everywhere, motorway included, for motorna vozila koja vuku prikolicu za stanovanje. Čl. 38 st. 2 expressly says that the vehicle limit applies even on a road where the law or the sign allows more. Without a trailer, čl. 36 and 37 apply: 50 within built-up areas (up to 80 if the sign says so), 130 motorway, 100 expressway, 80 other roads. Since 2026-08-07 the speed rules under the new čl. 38a apply to average speed as well, not only to an instantaneous measurement.
Source. Zakon o bezbjednosti saobraćaja na putevima, "Službeni list CG" 33/12, čl. 38 st. 1 t. 1. The whole chain of amendments 58/14, 14/17 (odluka US), 66/19 and 111/26 of 2026-07-30, in force 2026-08-07 has been read act by act; none of them touches čl. 38
Dimensions — the same two-step construction as the neighbours, but without the split that gives 18.00
Montenegro builds the dimensions in two steps, exactly as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Romania. The Zakon o bezbjednosti saobraćaja na putevima (ZBSP) čl. 242 st. 1 says that a motor vehicle and a towed vehicle in traffic must meet the prescribed conditions as to dimensions, gross weight and axle load, and the last paragraph of the same article leaves the figures to the ministry:
Bliže uslove koje moraju da ispunjavaju vozila u saobraćaju na putu u pogledu dimenzija, ukupne mase i osovinskog opterećenja, tehničkih uslova i uređaja, sklopova i opreme i tehničkih normativa propisuje organ državne uprave nadležan za poslove saobraćaja.
The figures stand in the Pravilnik o bližim uslovima koje moraju da ispunjavaju vozila u saobraćaju na putevima, issued by the Ministarstvo saobraćaja i pomorstva under čl. 242 st. 8, promulgated in "Službeni list CG" 2/2015 on 16 January 2015 and in force from 24 January 2015. The regulation repealed in čl. 129 the earlier Pravilnik … u pogledu dimenzija, ukupne mase, osovinskog opterećenja, zaštite okoline, uređaja i opreme ("Službeni list CG" 40/10).
Sources. The act read from the gazette's own PDF via supcg.me, matched against the gazette's act sluzbenilist.me/propisi/319139 on registration number (671) and page count (122). The regulation read from the ministry's own PDF at gov.me/dokumenta/09ef4d20-93ad-4ae5-906a-58bcd82d7963. The amending act 58/14 from supcg.me, the 2026 amending act from parliament's act database zakoni.skupstina.me/zakoni/web/app.php/akt/4072 (EPA 905, adopted, promulgated as "Sl. list CG" 111/26). All read 2026-08-08.
| Dimension | Montenegro | Article |
|---|---|---|
| Width, car and caravan | 2.55 m | Pravilnik čl. 16 st. 1 t. 5 |
| Height | 4.00 m | Pravilnik čl. 17 st. 1 |
| Length, vehicle | 12.00 m | Pravilnik čl. 15 st. 1 t. 1 and t. 7 |
| Length, outfit | 18.75 m | Pravilnik čl. 15 st. 2 t. 2 |
The outfit's row is the one worth reading closely, since it looks like Bosnia's and Germany's but is not. Čl. 15 st. 2 enumerates five combinations: tractor unit with semi-trailer 16.50 m, bus with trailer 18.75 m, container and vehicle transport 21.00 m, tourist train 40.00 m — and as the second point
za vučno vozilo sa prikolicom - 18,75 m
A towing vehicle with a trailer. The point says nothing about goods. There is no counterpart to Bosnia's point c) or the StVZO's Nr. 3 a), that is, no general combination row at 18.00 m for a caravan to fall into. The partial dimensions of 15.65 m and 16.40 m the point continues with are measured between tovarni prostor, load spaces, and a caravan has none to measure — but that does not remove the main figure, it merely leaves the partial dimensions without application. Montenegro therefore lands on 18.75 m, not on 18.00. It is the same wording as in Croatia, vučnog vozila s prikolicom, and it gives the same answer.
The caravan's 12 m is measured from the coupling eye, and it says so. Čl. 15 st. 1 t. 7 sets 12.00 m for categories O and R and adds, in brackets, that "dužina prikolice se mjeri od vučnog oka rude do najisturenije tačke na zadnjem kraju vozila" — the trailer's length is measured from the coupling eye on the drawbar to the vehicle's rearmost point. Most of the document's other instruments do not say where the measurement begins. Here it does, and it means the drawbar counts within the caravan's 12 metres. For a normal caravan it makes no difference; for a long caravan with a long drawbar it may.
The exception list in čl. 15 st. 4 does not take that back, and that reading has been done. The page previously claimed only that the list's fourteen entries except "among other things the coupling device", and as long as that stood the country could look as though it contradicted itself: t. 7 counts the coupling eye in, an excepted coupling would count it out. The list has now been read in the ministry's own PDF, and the contradiction does not exist. The entry concerned is the eleventh, and it is delimited in its own wording: "uređaji za spajanje priključnog vozila kod motornih vozila" — devices for coupling a towed vehicle, on motor vehicles. That is the towbar on the car. A caravan is a priključno vozilo, not a motorno vozilo, and the exception therefore never reaches the caravan's ruda. The only entry touching the trailer itself is instead the thirteenth, about pantographs on electric vehicles, and the other twelve are windscreen wipers, registration plates, customs sealing, tarpaulin fastenings, lighting devices, mirrors, air intakes, longitudinal stops for swap bodies, steps and handles, hydraulic loading ramps, auxiliary units in front of the load space and sun visors.
The paragraph before the list moreover says the same thing again, independently of t. 7. The length is defined there as the dimension into which are counted "svi elementi koji se izvlače, preklapaju, rasklapaju" … "naprijed ili nazad (do maksimalno mogućeg položaja)" — all parts that extend, fold or unfold, forwards or backwards, in their most extended possible position. An adjustable drawbar is precisely such a part, and must therefore be measured fully extended. Montenegro thus reaches the same answer as Serbia along two separate routes, and the country now stands as "with" in MATBASIS.
Two more figures that do not fit in the table but apply to an outfit. Čl. 18: "Prepust na motornim i priključnim vozilima može da iznosi najviše 63% razmaka između osovina" — rear overhang at most 63 % of the axle spacing. On a single-axle caravan it is counted from the wheel axle, and 63 % is tighter than it looks. And čl. 15 last paragraph requires vehicles and vehicle combinations to be able to turn within a circle of 12.50 m outer and 5.30 m inner radius — the same turning envelope the EU directive uses, but written here so that it applies to skupovi vozila without an exception for a car with a trailer.
Mirrors are not counted into the width. Čl. 16 st. 3 excepts nine things from the width measurement, among them "ogledala i drugi sistemi za indirektno ostvarivanje vidljivosti". The width is measured with doors and windows closed and the wheels straight ahead (čl. 16 st. 2). The corresponding exception list for the length stands in čl. 15 st. 4 and has fourteen entries; it has been read in full above, and none of them reaches the caravan's drawbar.
Čl. 243 closes the chain about the foreign outfit, and not every country does that.
Vozila registrovana u drugoj državi mogu da učestvuju u saobraćaju na teritoriji Crne Gore ako imaju sklopove, uređaje i opremu u skladu sa važećom međunarodnom Konvencijom o saobraćaju na putevima i ako su u ispravnom stanju. Vozila iz stava 1 ovog člana, u pogledu dimenzija, najveće dozvoljene ukupne mase i osovinskog opterećenja, moraju ispunjavati uslove u skladu sa ovim zakonom.
The equipment is therefore assessed against the Vienna Convention, but the dimensions against Montenegro's own rules. An outfit that is legal at home but wider than 2.55 m is not legal here merely because it is registered elsewhere. If the figures are exceeded it is not a traffic offence but vanredni prevoz under čl. 114, requiring a permit under the roads act.
The speed stands in the act, not in the regulation, and the caravan is named with that word. ZBSP čl. 38 st. 1 limits by vehicle type, and point 1 reads:
1) 80 km/h - za autobuse i autobuse sa lakom prikolicom, teretna vozila čija najveća dozvoljena masa nije veća od 7.500 kg i motorna vozila koja vuku prikolicu za stanovanje;
None of points 1–6 has a motorway exception, and paragraph 2 closes the question expressly: the driver must observe the vehicle limit "i na putu na kojem je ovim zakonom ili postavljenim saobraćajnim znakom dozvoljena veća brzina" — even on a road where the law or a posted sign allows more. 80 therefore applies on the autoput too. The basic limits without a trailer stand in čl. 36 and 37: 50 km/h within built-up areas, with the possibility of signposting up to 80 where the road's design permits, and outside built-up areas 130 on the motorway, 100 on the expressway, 80 on other roads. The motorway's extra reductions in čl. 37 st. 2 do not catch a braked caravan: 90 km/h applies to vehicles over 3,500 kg and to vehicles towing a trailer without brakes.
The rear plate is written on the car, not on the caravan. Čl. 38 st. 3 requires motor vehicles under st. 1 points 1 to 4 — so including the car with a caravan — to carry on the left half of the rear a yellow circle with a red border and the speed in black. The trailer variant of the same duty lists only points 2 and 4, that is, goods trailers and passenger trailers, not the caravan. The statute therefore puts the plate in a place hidden by the caravan, and no official interpretation of how that is to be resolved could be found. That distinguishes Montenegro from Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the caravan point is excepted from the plate duty altogether.
The chain of amendments is four acts long and touches none of the figures. The ZBSP has been amended by 58/14, 14/17 (the Ustavni sud's decision U-I br. 3/16), 66/19 and 111/26. Each act has been read separately. 58/14 amends 44 articles but leaves čl. 36, 37, 38, 242 and 243 untouched; it adds čl. 37a — young and novice drivers at most 70 km/h, 100 on the motorway — and čl. 160a on zone 30. The consolidated version up to and including 66/19 reproduces čl. 36, 37, 38, 242 and 243 word for word as in the base version, so neither the court decision nor the 2019 amendment has touched them. The 2026 amendment, promulgated 30 July 2026 and in force since 7 August 2026, amends 52 articles and 36, 37, 38, 242 and 243 are not among them either — but it adds an article worth knowing about for anyone driving here:
Član 38a Odredbe ovog zakona koje se odnose na brzinu primjenjuju se na trenutno izmjerenu brzinu i srednju (prosječnu) brzinu kretanja vozila.
From 2026-08-07 the speed rules therefore apply not only to an instantaneously measured speed but also to average speed over a stretch. For an outfit with a ceiling of 80 km/h that applies on the motorway too, that is a considerable tightening of the consequence, without a single figure having changed.
Method note: Montenegro's gazette publishes only images. sluzbenilist.me has free search and free act pages, but the act's text is served exclusively as base64-embedded page images in HTML — no text layer, no PDF, no download endpoint, no api, storage or ocr endpoint anywhere on the page. This environment has neither tesseract, pdftoppm nor pdftotext, so the images cannot be read mechanically. The readable statute came instead from the police union's archive at supcg.me and could be tied to the gazette's act by two independent markers: the registration number 671, which stands first in the PDF and in the act's metadata, and the page count 122, which matches the viewer's totalPages. The regulation's text came from the ministry's own PDF at gov.me. The routes there are worth writing out, since most of them are dead ends: wapi.gov.me/v1/documents ignores every query parameter and always returns the 25 most recent documents, gov.me/pretraga and gov.me/biblioteka search client-side so the server's HTML contains only the same latest list, the sitemap covers articles but not documents, and regis.sluzbenilist.me and zakoni.skupstina.me are single-page apps that give curl nothing — except on one point: zakoni.skupstina.me/zakoni/web/app.php/akt/ has a server-rendered search form, and that is where the 2026 amending act lies in plain text as PDF together with all the amendments. propisi.net requires a login and is therefore excluded.
What could not be read, and what that means. The regulation has been amended three times since the base version — "Sl. list CG" 73/23 (one page), 62/24 (one page) and 71/26 (eight pages, promulgated 26 May 2026). All three exist only as page images, and none of the channels that gave the statute has an equivalent for ministerial regulations. The dimensions above are therefore the base version 2/2015, and that is how they should be read. The two one-page amendments cannot reasonably have rewritten the dimensions chapter; 71/26 at eight pages can. The figures remain in the table because they are verified from a primary source and because the alternative — omitting Montenegro — would have left an empty row where a reader fills in "2.55 / 4.00 / 18.75" themselves. But the row must be recalculated as soon as 71/26 can be read.