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Log loading guidelines released
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• Controversial new guidelines on vehicle load safety are being published this week (17 October), changing best practice for curtainsiders and trailers carrying loads of timber.
Piling logs transversely on flatbed trailers and securing them with ropes and straps will no longer be sufficient to comply with the code.
Instead, upright supports or pins will have to be fitted along the sides of trailers to prevent logs slipping off.
The extra costs involved are expected to deepen the crisis facing timber haulage (CM12-10 September).
Curtainsider manufac
turers feared the new guidelines would mean that the body roof could not be used as part of a load restraint system.
Grahame Potter, technical director of Congleton-based Boalloy, says: "What they (the Department for Transport) were proposing was that all loads were strapped in some form or other to the trailer. In many cases, the load is not amenable to that, "We are pleased that they have accepted that certain loads have to be restrained by roof-mounted equipment.''
A spokesman for the DfT says the new code should be easier to understand than
the last one which was revised in 19E14.
Copies can be bought for £10.60 from The Stationery Office (quote ISBN number 011-1152547-5) or downloaded from the OFT web site at wynystft.gotuk.