The Goods Vehicles (Ascertainment of Maximum Gross Weights) Regulations 1976

SCHEDULE 1 MULTIPLIERS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAILERS

(1)	(2)
Class of Vehicle	Number
Part A—Motor Vehicles
1. Dual purpose vehicles not constructed or adapted to form part of an articulated goods vehicle combination	1.5
2. Break-down vehicles	2
3. Works trucks and straddle carriers used solely as works trucks	2
4. Electrically propelled motor vehicles	2
5. Vehicles constructed or adapted for, and used solely for, spreading material on roads to deal with frost, ice or snow	2
6. Motor vehicles used for no other purpose than the haulage of lifeboats and the conveyance of the necessary gear of the lifeboats which are being hauled	2
7. Living vans	1.5
8. Vehicles constructed or adapted for, and used primarily for the purpose of, carrying equipment permanently fixed to the vehicle, in a case where the equipment is used for medical, dental, veterinary, health educational, display or clerical purposes and such use does not directly involve the sale, hire or loan of goods from the vehicle	1.5
9. Three wheeled motor vehicles designed for the purpose of street cleansing, the collection or disposal of refuse or the collection or disposal of the contents of gullies	2
10. Steam propelled vehicles	2
11. Vehicles designed and used for the purpose of servicing, controlling, loading or unloading aircraft on an aerodrome	2
12. Motor vehicles of a class not mentioned above where equipment, apparatus or other burden is permanently attached to and forms part of the vehicle and where the vehicle is only used on a road for carrying, or in connection with the use of, such equipment, apparatus or other burden	1
13. Motor vehicles of a class not mentioned above which are either— (a) heavy motor cars or motor cars first used before 1st January 1968, or (b) locomotives or motor tractors first used before 1st April 1973.	2
14. Any motor vehicles not mentioned above	4
PART B—Trailers
1. Engineering plant	1
2. Trailers which consist of drying or mixing plant designed for the production of asphalt or of bituminous or tar macadam	1
3. Agricultural trailers	1
4. Works trailers	1
5. Living vans	1.5
6. Any trailers not mentioned above	3

INTERPRETATION

In this Schedule:—

“agricultural trailer”, “dual purpose vehicle”, “straddle carrier” and “works trailer” have the meanings respectively given to those expressions in Regulation 3(1) of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1973(1), as amended(2);

“break-down vehicle” means a motor vehicle on which there is mounted apparatus designed for raising a disabled vehicle wholly or partly from the ground or for drawing a disabled vehicle when so raised, and which is not used for the conveyance of goods other than a disabled vehicle wholly raised by that apparatus and which carries no other load other than articles required for the operation of, or in connection with, that apparatus or otherwise for dealing with disabled vehicles;

“engineering plant” means movable plant or equipment being a motor vehicle or trailer (not constructed primarily to carry a load) especially designed and constructed for the special purposes of engineering operations;

“first used” shall be construed in accordance with Regulation 3(2) of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1973; and

“works truck” means a motor vehicle designed for use in private premises and used on a road only in delivering goods from or to such premises to or from a vehicle on a road in the immediate neighbourhood, or in passing from one part of any such premises to another or to other private premises in the immediate neighbourhood or in connection with road works while at or in the immediate neighbourhood of the site of such works.

SCHEDULE 2 MULTIPLIERS FOR ARTICULATED GOODS VEHICLE COMBINATIONS

(1)	(2)
Class of Combination	Number
1. Articulated goods vehicle combinations where the semi-trailer is a trailer of a kind mentioned in paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 of Part B of Schedule 1 above	1.5
2. Any other articulated goods vehicle combination	2.5

(1)

(1973 I, p. 93).

(2)

The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1975/641 (1975 I, p. 2316).