Should Slow Moving Vehicles Always Stay in the Right Lane?

• What is a slow moving vehicle?
  • In the “Use of Highway and Rules of the Road Regulation” a slow moving vehicle is defined as a vehicle “on a highway at a speed that is less than the normal speed of the traffic on the highway”. The slowness of the vehicle is relative to the general speed of the flow of traffic, as road conditions may warrant slower speeds. This ambiguity makes this traffic law difficult to enforce and even a little difficult to interpret. Note that this law indicates that it only applies to vehicles being driven on the highway.

• What the law says:
  • According to the act, slow moving vehicles must remain in the right lane when available or drive “as close as practicable to the right edge of the roadway”. The only times where this rule does not apply is when the slow moving vehicle is either:
    • Passing another vehicle
    • Preparing for a left turn off of the highway
    • If a traffic control device or sign indicates otherwise, that should take precedence over the preceding statements.

This only applies to traffic on highways. At the time of writing we weren’t able to find wording pertaining to slow moving vehicles on city streets or freeways.