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Where can a van or truck drive in France?
Light commercial vehicles and anything over 3.5t. This is the class most tools flatten into the car answer, and the class that gets stopped.
11 of the 18 French cities that record a rule for a van or truck set a Crit'Air floor; 7 record the class but require no sticker.
Rules in force on 2 August 2026, read from each authority's own published zone rather than applied from the car table.
Vans up to 3.5t and vehicles over 3.5t carry the same Crit'Air floor in every French city we hold. That is why this is one page and not two — the sources record them separately, and today they agree everywhere. If a future ingest makes them diverge, this page splits.
What each city demands for a van or truck
| City | What you need | Authority |
|---|---|---|
| Angers | No sticker needed | Angers Loire Métropole |
| Annecy | No sticker needed | Grand Annecy |
| Annemasse | No sticker needed | Annemasse Agglo |
| Bordeaux | No sticker needed | Bordeaux Métropole |
| Clermont-Ferrand | No sticker needed | Clermont Auvergne métropole |
| Grenoble | Crit'Air 3 or cleaner | Grenoble-Alpes Métropole |
| Lyon | Crit'Air 3 or cleaner | Métropole de Lyon |
| Marseille-Aix en Provence | Crit'Air 4 or cleaner | Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence |
| Montpellier | Crit'Air 3 or cleaner | Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole |
| Nancy | Crit'Air 5 or cleaner | Métropole du Grand Nancy |
| Nantes | No sticker needed | Nantes Métropole |
| Paris | Crit'Air 4 or cleaner | Ville de Paris |
| Reims | Crit'Air 4 or cleaner | CU du Grand Reims |
| Rennes | No sticker needed | Rennes Métropole |
| Rouen | Crit'Air 4 or cleaner | Métropole Rouen Normandie |
| Saint-Etienne | Crit'Air 4 or cleaner | Saint-Etienne Métropole |
| Strasbourg | Crit'Air 4 or cleaner | Eurométropole de Strasbourg |
| Toulouse | Crit'Air 4 or cleaner | Toulouse Métropole |
By Crit'Air level
- Where can a Crit'Air 2 vehicle drive?Every city, per vehicle class
- Where can a Crit'Air 3 vehicle drive?Every city, per vehicle class
- Where can a Crit'Air 4 vehicle drive?Every city, per vehicle class
- Where can a Crit'Air 5 vehicle drive?Every city, per vehicle class
Other vehicles
- Where can my car drive in France?
- Where can a bus or coach drive in France?
- Where can a motorcycle drive in France?
Rules as published and in force on 2 August 2026. Each city links through to its own page, which carries the source and licence.