The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986

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Item Class of vehicle Maximum overhang Exemptions
1 Motor tractor 1.83 m. (a) a track-laying vehicle
2 Heavy motor car and
motor car
60% of the distance between
the transverse plane which
passesthrough the centre
or centres of the foremost
wheel or wheels and the
transverseplane which passes
through the foremost point
from which the overhang is
tobe measured as provided in
regulation 3(2).
(b) an agriculturalmotor
vehicle
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(i)
(j)
a bus
a refuse vehicle
a works truck
a track-laying vehicle
an agricultural motor
vehicle
a motor car which is an
ambulance
a vehicle designed to
dispose of itsload to the
rear, if the overhang does
not exceed 1.15 m
a vehicle first used
before 2nd January1933
a vehicle first used
before 1st January1966 if
—
(i)
(ii)
the distance
between the centres
of therearmost and
foremost axles does
not exceed 2.29 m,
and
the distance
specified in column
3 isnot exceeded by
more than 76 mm
heating plant on a vehicle
designed andmainly used
to heat the surface of
a road or other similar
surface in theprocess
of construction, repair
or maintenance shall be
disregarded.
(2) In thecase of an agricultural motor vehicle the distance measured horizontally andparallel to
the longitudinal axis of the rear portion of the vehicle betweenthe transverse planes passing through
the rearmost point of the vehicle andthrough the centre of the rear or the rearmost axle shall not
exceed 3 m.
Minimum ground clearance
12.—(1) Save asprovided in paragraph (2), a wheeled trailer which is—
(a) agoods vehicle; and
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