On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is rare to prohibit hgvs as such, the way this is achieved is by weight > or length. The most common is to prohibit vehicles over 7.5t, the historic > breakpoint between a vehicle that could be driven on a car license and one > requiring a hgv licence. At some point that weight was reduced, not sure > what to or when. I can still drive a 7.5t truck due to when I passed my > test. I can't remember when it changed, but it changed to 3.5t. (The range 3.5t to 7.5t is covered by the C1 driving licence.) One common weight restriction is 17.5t. I think the idea behind this is that the axle weight limit is 10t, and hgv designers have to leave a bit of leeway for how the load is positioned on/in the vehicle, so in practice the rated gross tonnage of a lorry is 8 times the number of axles. So, in effect, a 17.5t limit really means "no vehicles with more than two axles". Also, width restrictions may in effect mean "no hgv or psv", with "except for access" to allow the dustcart in. __John _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
