All of that is in addition to having to actually look ahead of you to see what the traffic is doing and quite possibly looking for the correct road to turn into or business to stop at, plus any weight or width restrictions that are applicable along with road signs, pedestrian crossings, road works and so on.

blind spot stickers Here’s the new official French guidelines blind spot stickers

On vehicles with direct vision systems at the bottom of the doors, or glass doors, the side signs must be “as close as possible” to the 0m-1m rule, and no more than 3m from the front of the vehicle. Yes, if you follow your link and then further, the FFCC link, (the initials highlighted in red) you will arrive here, For vehicles and trailers where it is technically impossible to comply with the height requirement, signs must be “as close as possible” to 0.9m-1.5m and no more than 2.1m from ground level.Sadly, this law has created a LOT of confusion, especially with regards to whether or not that law applies to motorhomes or private vehicles, or is it just for heavy goods vehicles? Articulated buses and coaches, as defined in 1.8 of R. 311-1 of the Highway Code, must also have additional signs showing the blind spots on each of the sections making up the articulated vehicle. Evidence from the first year of enforcement has shown a reduction in collisions where vision was a contributing factor, but improvements can be made. A progressive HGV Safety Standard Permit Scheme is key to reduced collisions and improved safety for all road users. Summary of Progressive Safe System

FORS Vehicle safety equipment guide – supports the FORS

these signs are to educate and warn other road users that large vehicles have blind spots where they are in danger of not being seen by the large vehicle driver. Camera Monitoring Systems (CMS) guidance will be updated to allow use of both systems. This will give the driver a wider field of vision and reduce the cognitive workload.

France and Germany had already negotiated a relaxation of the general driving-licence regulations to permit electric vehicles up to 4250kg GVW to be legally driven on a “B” entitlement, and - for 'alternatively fuelled vehicles’ -a similar relaxation became law in the UK in late-July 2018. For semi-trailers: signage, left and right, in the first meter behind the vehicle's kingpin and at a height between 0.90 and 1.50 meters from the ground. This is a bit like the grandfather rights “C1/C1E” entitlement that applies in the UK, except Code 79 relates specifically to motorhomes and there’s no GVW upper limit. When Code 79 became law in France in 2009, some EU countries (perhaps unsurprisingly) initially refused to recognise its legality for vehicles being driven within their national territory - but eventually those countries were compelled to do so. On trailers, each side (left and right) between 0m-1m behind the kingpin (for semi-trailers) or the front body of other trailers. The law has been implemented to increase the protection of vulnerable road users, especially pedestrians and cyclists, to better understand the existence and position of blind spots on heavy vehicles.