We’re not talking about a few sheets of plywood on your roof rack, we’re talking about prime movers transporting massive infrastructure for mining and civil construction, earthmoving equipment, boats bridge components and turbine blades; agricultural machines such large tractors, harvesters…
The classifications of heavy vehicles are a confusing mess of specifications and restrictions. General Access Vehicle General access vehicles are rigid and combination vehicles that meet a set of standard design requirements, sit within mass and dimension limits, and generally…
When you get a new car, you get peace of mind from a manufacturer’s auto warranty that typically comes with it. This means your wallet won’t take a hit if mechanical or performance issues occur. An example of this is…
To make road freight as efficient as possible, higher mass limit laws were created. These increase the maximum weight limits for trucks to allow more freight to be moved on one vehicle. However, more weight means potentially more damage to…
There are four main types of tanker truck. Fuel tankers transport petrol and diesel. They often have different compartments within the tanks so that they can haul different octanes of petrol, plus diesel, in the same load. Within the tank,…
As any Toyota owner knows, the dashboard is full of different warning lights. While some of these are simply informative, like the fuel low light, others indicate a more serious problem that must be addressed. Toyota cars are equipped with…
To avoid excess wear on the road and to ensure that bridges and other road infrastructure can cope, there are limits to how much weight can be placed above different types of axle. The tyres on those axles transfer the…
