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Warning · A17.21

Road grading

Vegheflun
Road grading road sign (Vegheflun)
What do I do?

A grader is working the gravel ahead, often taking up most of the road's width. Slow to a crawl, follow any hand signals from the operator, and expect a soft ridge of loose gravel down the middle.

A very Icelandic sign: gravel roads develop washboard corrugations and are periodically smoothed by a veghefill, a road grader. Freshly graded gravel is deceptively loose — the surface looks perfect but grips like marbles until traffic packs it down. It's a newer sign, added after the original 1995 regulation.

Full guideGravel & F-roads
The words on the sign
veghefill road grader
hefla to grade, to plane
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