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Laden weight:<br />
the weight of vehicle or trailer when carrying a load, also known as the Gross Vehicle<br />
Weight (GVW).<br />
Light trailer:<br />
(called simply ‘trailer’ in this booklet) is a trailer with a technically permissible<br />
maximum laden mass (see definition below) of not more than 3,500kg. In other<br />
words, the trailer <strong>and</strong> its load when fully laden must not weigh more than that<br />
amount. This category of trailer includes anything from small domestic <strong>trailers</strong><br />
to general duty <strong>trailers</strong> including flatbed or plant <strong>trailers</strong>, car transporters, trailer<br />
caravans, horse boxes, livestock <strong>trailers</strong>, <strong>and</strong> so on.<br />
Maximum Authorised Mass (MAM)<br />
this is the weight of a vehicle or trailer including the maximum load it can carry in<br />
accordance with the manufacturer’s design specifications. It is also known as Design<br />
Gross Vehicle Weight (DGVW).<br />
Manufacturer’s statutory plate:<br />
a plate fitted to a vehicle by the manufacturer that shows the technical in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
needed to identify the vehicle, <strong>and</strong> gives the in<strong>for</strong>mation about the permissible<br />
maximum laden masses. Examples of manufacturers’ plates fitted to <strong>drawing</strong> vehicles<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>trailers</strong> (along with explanations of the in<strong>for</strong>mation they display) are shown in<br />
Figures 3 <strong>and</strong> 4 on the next page.<br />
8 <strong>Road</strong> <strong>safety</strong> <strong>advice</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>driver</strong> <strong>licensing</strong> <strong>rules</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>drawing</strong> <strong>light</strong> <strong>trailers</strong>
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