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In-cab height display

31st August 1995
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• Operators aught have to fit alarms to trucks carrying powered lifting equipment under new anti-bridge bashing proposals. Vehicles more than three metres high could also have to have a display of the measurements in the cab.

These are among proposed amendments to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 released for comment by the Department of Transport last week. If they go ahead, drivers would be more likely to face prosecution if they strike a bridge.

The DOT wants drivers to be responsible for displaying a cab sign noting the fifth wheel height added to the trailer height. Alternatively operators would be responsible for ensuring drivers travel with details of the height of their vehicle and of bridge risks along their route.

Powered machinery capable of rising above three metres would have to issue audible and visual alarms while raised, the proposals add, but gear that has to be locked down before the vehicle will move would be exempt.

The regulations suggest a 150mm allowance could be made for variations in heights of otherwise similar loads but stresse it will be up to drivers to prove after a bridge strike that precautions were taken_

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