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Call for longer rigs in Eurol
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The European Shipping Council is backing a Scandinavian call to allow trucks up to 25.25m long to run throughout Europe as a way of increasing efficiency and cutting the number of HGVs on the road. Now it wants the European Commission to conduct a detailed study Into their use.
The eight-axle set up, based on a three-axle rigid pulling a conventional triaxle 13.6m semi-trailer via a two-axle converter dolly, is capable of carrying up to three 6.1m (201111SO containers or a 7.82m swap body with two 20-footers.
These rigs are only legal in
Sweden and Finland according to Swedish mar turer Scania, under Eur Directive 96/53/EC "mc states may allow longer lar combinations within borders", paving the we their greater use across t The current EU harmc HGV length limit is 18.75m drawbar rig. but Scania this is going to rise to 2r. "The total number of [con cial] vehicles will deer thereby reducing acciden spokesman acids.
Swedish studies int that longer HGVs are ro increased overtaking risk.