New regs to cover loose loads
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LOOSE LOADS will have to be sheeted and all loads physically restrained where this is necessary as the result of new regulations coming into effect on March 31.
The same regulations will allow a tyre of a different structure from those already on an axle to be used in certain circumstances.
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1976 SI 317 Is available from HMSO or through any bookseller price 20p.
As well as other alterations to the C and U Regulations 1973, the use of different structured tyres on the same axle is allowed by these regulations if the tyre is carried as a spare and is marked in a special way with a continuous band. Such use is permitted, however, only to complete the journey or to allow the vehicle to gain a place where the original tyre might be repaired.
Other changes allow two-toned horns to be used in RAF Mountain Rescue vehicles; limit the gross weight of trailers with overrun brakes; allow combinations of vehicles and trailers to operate if only one of them conforms with EEC braking standards; and exempt from British braking requirements those vehicles which conform with a recently amended EEC Directive on braking.
Further Regulations referring to type approval, SI 316, also take effect on March 31 and cost 12p.
These enable the testing and type approval of vehicles conforming to the recent EEC standard on brakes but impose no new obligations on British manufacturers.