Dear RTT Subscribers
John Lambert has just circulated on RTT a (rather large) Austroads
report on PROPOSED mass enforcement tolerances and sanction breakpoints.
I am the author of that report and the project is still "active" so
comments are welcome. You can either let others on RTT see your comments
by clicking on REPLY or send email directly to me at
mailto:[log in to unmask]
I should have thought about publicizing the report on RTT myself -
thanks John!
regards
Michael Paine

Paul Nordengen wrote:
>
> I am currently involved in a project for the South African National
> Department of Transport, which involves the development of a national
> overload control strategy for heavy goods vehicles.  One of the tasks is
> to review the current 5% tolerance that applies to all maximum
> permissible masses (single axles, axle units, Gross Vehicle Mass and
> Gross Combination Mass).  The tolerance is a prosecution guideline,
> which gives the transport operator a domain of grace, primarily to allow
> for payload distribution difficulties.  This means that the vehicle
> and/or one or more of the axles/axle units may be overloaded by up to 5%
> without the driver or transport operator being charged for overloading
> – the driver merely receives a warning.  The problem facing the
> authorities is that, because of the fiercely competitive market and
> profit incentives, many operators load their vehicles to the absolute
> limit – up to an additional 2.8 tons of payload on a 56-ton vehicle
> combination - without fear of being fined for overloading.  If the
> vehicle is found to be overloaded by more than 5% in terms of any of the
> mass regulations, the operator is charged and loses the benefit of the
> tolerance.  The load must be rectified according to the permissible
> masses excluding the tolerance before the vehicle is allowed to
> proceed.
>
> One of the possible amendments under consideration is to reduce the
> tolerance for the total vehicle mass (GVM/GCM) to 1 or 2% and to retain
> the tolerance on axles and axle units at 5% (or even increase it
> slightly).
>
> I would sincerely appreciate information or comments from other
> countries with regards any similar tolerance policies for vehicle and
> axle mass regulations.
>
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