Want to know when cars and other vehicles are allowed to drive the streets of São Paulo City? Check out the info below!

Cars

According to the license plate’s last number and day of the week (see table below), passengers cars may not be driven on streets and internal avenues of the Mini-anel area (area bounded by the red line on the map below), from 7 to 10 pm and from 17 to 20 hours.

Trucks

Trucks will be also prevented from circulating from 7 to 10 pm and from 17 to 20 hours in the Expanded Centre and also in the following streets:

• Marginal do Rio Tietê, (between Avenida Salim Farah Maluf and Marginal do Rio Pinheiros);
• Marginal do Rio Pinheiros, (from Marginal do Rio Tietê to Avenida dos Bandeirantes);
• Avenida dos Bandeirantes (all extension);
• Avenida Affonso D'Escragnolle Taunay (all extension);
• Complexo Viário Maria Maluf (all extension);
• Avenida Presidente Tancredo Neves (all extension);
• Rua das Juntas Provisórias (all extension);
• Rua das Juntas Provisórias (all extension);
• Viaduto Grande São Paulo (all extension);
• Avenida Professor Luís Ignácio de Anhaia Melo, (Between Viaduto Grande São Paulo and Avenida Salim Farah Maluf);
• Avenida Salim Farah Maluf (all extension).

 The restriction does not apply to the following trucks:

• winches;
• ambulances, police, fire brigade, civil defense and military vehicles properly identified as such;
• funeral service, water, electricity, telephone, gas, traffic control and transport and properly identified stop-gap;
• post office;
• garbage collection;
• Dangerous products of local consumption (fuel, LPG and hospital gases);
• Carrying values;
• media outlets;
• transport of perishable foodstuffs;
• specially adapted vehicles (mobile units) for provision of medical services;
• the service of Guardianship Councils;
• the service of Elections;
• the service of METRO, used in the safety of subway transportation;
• Transport of blood and blood products, organ transplant and material for clinical trials;
• Transport Equipment necessary for public health campaigns;
• aeronautics and rail transportation fuel.

VUCs – Charge Urban Vehicles

If properly registered, VUC trucks are released for circulation full-time.

Trucks must comply with the conditions laid down in specific legislation and be aware of the operational requirements to be scheduled by the transit agency. Exceptional situations will be authorized depending on the size of the truck, the cargo or type of service being provided. To be effectively allowed some exceptional situations require registration only by the DSV, which can be done over the Internet. There are other exceptional situations that require, in addition to registration, possessing a special authorization to be obtained from the DSV whose request can be made via the Internet. 

VUC is characterized as a smaller truck that has a maximum width of 2.20 mt, 6.30 mt in maximum length and load capacity of up to three tons. Understood as the total length measurement of the front bumper to the rear bumper and overall width measured width at the widest point of the vehicle / body. The accessories are not considered such as mirrors, trailer hitches, rubber bumpers or locks, which eventually exceed the dimensions of the cabin or the body, both in width and in length.

The Maximum Restriction Zone amounts to an area of 100 km², and it is bordered by the Marginal Pinheiros, Bandeirantes Avenue, Road Complex Maria Maluf, State avenues Tiradentes, Mofarrej and Queiroz Filho. It still applies to other categories of freight vehicles.

They do have to respect the system of license plate’s last number. In addition, to cycle through Sao Paulo, the vehicles must be registered with the Municipal Transportation Bureau.

Vehicles that are not properly registered can be fined.