Traffic regulations

Leduc County's Traffic Bylaw regulates the use of all local roadways in Leduc County. Drivers are required to follow the regulations outlined in the Traffic Bylaw, as well as any provincial and federal legislation including, but not limited to, the following:

Traffic Safety Act and related regulations, including:

Failure to adhere to the regulations could result in a fine or other penalty.

Note: emergency vehicles responding to an emergency are exempt from the regulations set out in the Traffic Bylaw.

General regulations

Cargo securement

All drivers are responsible for making sure the cargo they are carrying is secured to their vehicle. Failure to secure cargo puts other road users at risk and creates litter that could harm the environment.

View/download our tip sheet for properly securing you cargo

Parking

Parking is not permitted on any land owned or controlled by Leduc County that is used as a playground, recreation area, public park or campground, except in a developed parking lot or other area designated for parking.

Vehicle's placed on a jack or similar device must not be left unattended on a roadway.

Trailers must not be parked on a roadway unless it is attached to a vehicle by which it may be propelled or drawn.

Speed

The speed limit on Leduc County roadways is 80 kilometres per hour unless otherwise posted.

Tracking material on roadways

If a vehicle tracks earth, sand, gravel or other material – including vehicle fluids – onto a roadway, the operator of the vehicle may be required to remove the material, or may be charged the clean-up fees to do so.

Commercial vehicle regulations

Commercial vehicles include any vehicle operated on a roadway by or on behalf of a person for the purpose of providing transportation; this does not include a private vehicle.

Vehicles used for farming operations either by or on behalf of another person is considered a commercial vehicle and is subject to legislation for commercial vehicles, unless otherwise stated. Vehicles with farm licence plates are still considered to be commercial vehicles; farm licence plates are used for registration purposes and to distinguish farmers from other industries when purchasing/possessing marked fuel.

Cargo securement requirements

View/download our tip sheet for properly securing you cargo

According to the Commercial Vehicle Safety Regulation, all cargo being transported by commercial vehicles must be properly secured so that the cargo cannot leak, spill, blow off, fall from, fall through or otherwise be dislodged from the commercial vehicle, or shift upon or within the vehicle to such an extent that the commercial vehicle’s stability or maneuverability is adversely affected. The National Safety Code Standard 10 details appropriate cargo securement systems and requirements.

Engine retarder brakes

The use of engine retarder brakes is not allowed within hamlets or localities in Leduc County.

No heavy-truck routes

Heavy vehicles are not allowed to travel on certain roadways or sections of roadway in Leduc County. Vehicles with a gross weight or gross registered vehicle weight of 16,400 kilograms or more, with or without a load, or exceeding 12.5 metres in overall length (excluding recreational vehicles) are subject to restrictions.

View the no truck route map. Heavy trucks can't drive on the following roads and roadways in the county.

Range Road 240, between Highway 625 and Township Road 510
Range Road 244A (South Vistas Road), between Highway 625 and Township Road 502 (Airport Road)
Range Road 245, between Highway 625 and Township Road 510
Township Road 505, between Range Road 244 and Range Road 245
Township Road 510, from Range Road 243 (north) to Range Road 244 (north)
Township Road 505, from Range Road 241 to Range Road 240

Please note that heavy vehicles hauling to areas that are part of a no truck route are allowed to haul to that location by the most direct route, obeying the road bans in place. Learn more about current road bans.

Parking

Parking of heavy vehicles is not permitted in a location adjoining residential property, except for commercial vehicles with hazard warning lamps on and in the process of loading or unloading goods, or construction equipment being used during construction or improvement of property, provided that the equipment is parked adjacent to the property where the work is being done.

Permits

Commercial vehicles over a certain height, length, width and weight may require a permit to travel in Leduc County. Learn more about overweight permits.

Road bans

Road bans are weight restrictions that reduce the maximum weight allowed on our roads. Learn more about road bans.

Road-use agreements

Road-use agreements help protect road infrastructure and also provide business and industry with access to transportation routes and road infrastructure. Learn more about road-use agreements.

Off-highway vehicle regulations

An OHV is any motorized mode of transportation built for cross-country travel on land, water, snow, ice, marsh or swamp land, or other natural terrain. OHVs include quads, dirt bikes, snowmobiles and any other all-terrain vehicle (ATV), but do not include motor boats or miniature vehicles like go carts or golf carts.

The use of OHVs on roads, in ditches and at public recreation areas in Alberta is regulated by the Traffic Safety Act and associated regulations, and Leduc County’s Traffic Bylaw.

Download our tip sheet for using OHVs in Leduc County

View the Government of Alberta's rules and regulations applying to small vehicles and guide to owning and operating a small vehicle.

Using an OHV in Leduc County

You can operate an OHV on your own private property (except in hamlets), or on other property if you have permission from the owner. You cannot operate an OHV within hamlets – including Buford, Looma, Kavanagh, Rolly View, Sunnybrook and New Sarepta – except when entering or leaving the hamlet using the most direct route to and from your home.

Learn more about using an OHV on public/Crown land.

You may operate an OHV in the ditch adjacent to a roadway if travelling single-file and in the same direction as adjacent traffic. Where there is no ditch, or where you need to bypass a hazard or obstacle in the ditch, you may travel in the parking lane (or the furthest right lane of the roadway where there is no parking lane). Your speed must not exceed 40 kilometres per hour, or the posted speed limit if it is less than 40 kilometres per hour.

Recreational vehicle regulations

Recreational vehicles are vehicles designed to provide temporary living accommodation for travel, vacation or recreational use and to be driven, towed or transported, such as a motor home, tent trailer or any bus converted to provide temporary living accommodations.

Parking

Parking of recreational vehicles is not permitted on a roadway unless the location completely adjoins the owner's residence, and is only permitted between May 1 and October 15.

Vehicles parked adjoining to an owner's residence must not be parked for more than 72 hours consecutively and must be moved to an off-roadway location for at least 48 hours before it may be parked on a roadway again.

No person is permitted to occupy a recreational vehicle parked on a roadway.

Boat regulations

Persons operating a power-driven boat must not exceed 10 kilometres per hour within 30 metres of the shore in any waters in Alberta, as set out in the Canada Shipping Act, unless other limits are posted. This does not apply in rivers less than 100 metres wide, canals and buoyed channels, nor in the case of waterskiing where towboat launches and drops off skiers by heading directly away from or into the shore.
Learn more about safe boating.