Anti-spray
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THE CONSTRUCTION and Use Regulations amendment requiring the fitting of anti-spray equipment to lorries is likely to be published "very shortly" according to the Department of Transport.
The DTp says that the representations it has had since issuing the draft regulations earlier this year have included many concerning the proposal for all trailers over 16 tonnes, whenever manufactured, to need anti-spray equipment from next year and these have been viewed "with sympathy".
It is likely that the regulations will allow a phased retrofit programme. But the Department has shown no sympathy with the wide-spread disapproval that has been expressed over the British Standards Institution design and performance requirements for the equipment, on which the regulations will be based.
The finalised British Standard, BS AU 200, has now been published and it is essentially no different from the draft which has caused so much controversy.
The Transport Engineers and Freight Transport Association have been in the vanguard of the objectors to the detail of the standard, though nobody argues that spray from heavy vehicles on motorways is not a problem.