JIDANCE to vehicle operators on the correct method of coupling
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hides and trailers with mixed two and three-line braking systems Issued today by the Department of Transport.
'=ollowing a recent amendint to the Construction and e Regulations to introduce EEC iking directives, vehicles with o-line braking systems will beme increasingly common in tam n and operators will need
know how they can be upled to vehicles with the indard three-line braking item used by British manufac.ers.
rhe directives will apply to all hides manufactured on or er October 1, 1982 and first 3d on or after April 1,1983.
rhe guidance, prepared by the p in conjunction with the ciety of Motor Manufacturers d Traders, the Road Haulage sociation and the Freight Transport Association, is contained in a technical booklet which tells fleet engineers how vehicles must be modified to enable conventional three-line drawing vehicles to safely draw a two-line trailer.
Advice is also contained in a leaflet telling drivers how to couple two and three-line
vehicles, in a poster warning of the danger of incorrect coupling and in self-adhesive labels srecommended for display on vehicles to indicate whether or not they have been modified to tow two and three-line trailers.
These publications are all available from DoE/DTp Stores, Building No 3 Victoria Road, South Ruislip, Middlesex, HA4 ONZ.