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Second man out
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• The need for a "second man" on a drawbar trailer combination is likely to be removed soon when the Minister of Transport gets .replies from interested organizations he has circulated with a proposed amendment to Regulation 115 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1969.
The main effect of the amendment is in a new sub-paragraph which would allow a vehicle drawing a trailer with power-assisted brakes to be used without an attendant. The requirement in Section '72 for an attendant for each trailer stems from the days when a man was needed to apply the brakes of the trailer which were at that time separately operated.
Another sub-paragraph reduces to one the number of attendants required on longer combinations. The Ministry take the view that even though a combination with two or three trailers may be braked with power assistance from the towing tractor or locomotive, an attendant should still be carried to assist the driver in difficult manoeuvres. The duties of the attendant in this case would be similar to those required by Regulation 111 for very long vehicles or vehicles with a very long or awkwardly projecting load.
Another new paragraph removes an anomaly in the existing regulations and makes it clear that a locomotive pulling a non-exempted trailer (e.g. a break-down vehicle pulling a broken down lorry which requires to be steered) need only carry an attendant in respect of the trailer.