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GROSS-WEIGHT CONCESSIONS
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HIGHER gross weight limits (16 tons on two axles, 32 tons for max artics and so on) which have hitherto applied only to plated post-February 1963 goods vehicles will now be permitted on older vehicles which satisfy the same axle spacing, weight and braking conditions.
This is one of several C. and U. amendments announced this week, affecting heavy vehicles in particular. A second will mean that wheel and axle weight limits of vehicles drawing trailers or semi-trailers will not be affected by the fact that a trailer is unplated. So long as the tractor or tractive unit is plated, the axle limit will be 10 tons, not nine; but an artic with an unplated trailer may still not exceed 20 or 24 tons gross.
To help dealers, plates will not be required to show date of vehicle manufacture; this avoids an "old stock" impression.