r operate a number of vehicles not :eeding 30owt unladen weight. fa fully appreciate that such vehicles
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✓ exempt from carriers' licensing ns we hear a great deal about a I 34-ton-gross figure, Can you 're position?
e Transport Act 1968, section 60, )1/ides that after the appointed day—
e announced—no person shall use a ehicle on a road for the carriage of 'al for hire or reward or (b) for or in on with any trade or business carried
except under an operator's licence. rovision will not apply to small goods which as defined in section 60, sub1, include goods vehicles not forming vehicle combination and which have plated weights not exceeding 34 tons laving a relevant plated weight) have den weight not exceeding 30cwt. resent any of your vehicles which do ed 34-ton-gross plated weight, do exceed 30cwt unladen, a carrier's 3 required. When operators' licensing
S come into effect, such vehicles ern pt.
from freedom from hire or reward ns, the operator of light vehicles require a transport manager's licence not be subject to the modified public procedure—still to be implemented LAs. Vehicles will be subject where ry to the MoT car test, and while there anger be a requirement for the keeping Ts' hours records, the actual drivers' ovisions will apply, lid you please inform me if there is liable a manually operated or an controlled fifth-wheel bogie for trailers in and around works and ad areas?
lire some method of moving semiempty or loaded, in and out of my Ise, but would like to avoid the exPf tying up a complete articulated re are a number of manufacturers ring this type of equipment, and in .ch 29 1968 Ron Cater reported a ration of two devices marketed by 3tion Co. Ltd., White Waltham, Berks. ig Horse is a fully fledged hydraulicth-wheel tractor powered by a Ford ajor diesel engine, driving through a ase torque,. converter. It will handle
semi-trailers of up to 40 tons gross weight, and has a compact turning circle of only 16.5ft.
The Mini-Horse comprises a motorized three-wheel bogie powered by a Coventry Victor 8 hp air-cooled diesel engine, It wit accept an imposed load of 3 tons, and has a drawbar pull of 18,000lb when the load is imposed. It is designed for the close handling of semi-trailers up to 10 tons gross trailer weight.