The Radioactive Material (Road Transport) (Great Britain) Regulations 1996

Restrictions on travel in vehicles transporting radioactive materials

34.—(1) No person shall travel in a vehicle which is transporting radioactive material unless:

(a) he is the carrier of the material or travels with the permission of the carrier of the material;

(b) he travels in a personnel compartment; and

(c) the material is transported in a goods compartment.

(2) No person except the driver and his assistant or assistants may travel in a vehicle transporting a package, overpack, tank or freight container bearing category II-YELLOW or III-YELLOW labels in accordance with Schedules 18 and 19.

(3) In this regulation reference to travelling in a vehicle transporting a package, overpack, tank or freight container shall, where the vehicle transporting the package, overpack, tank or freight container is a trailer, include reference to the vehicle by which the trailer is drawn.

(4) Except where a vehicle is solely transporting a consignment of excepted packages, to which the provisions of marginal 10 240 (1)(a) shall apply, no person shall travel in a vehicle which is transporting radioactive material unless the vehicle is equipped with firefighting appliances in accordance with marginal 10 240 of ADR.

(5) Paragraph (4) shall not apply where no more than 10 packages are transported in one vehicle at any one time and the sum of the Transport Indexes (TI) for the packages does not exceed 3.