New Qld (and National) Dimensions

Here is a very good instruction issued by QLD Transport on 01 January setting out the latest load dimensions, supposedly in accordance with the National Standard. Worth printing off.

Lang

www.tmr.qld.gov.au/Safety/Vehicle-standa...rojecting-loads.aspx

Cheeze Lang, you need to be a maths professor to work it out. :

Mate,

It is pretty basic. They just covered everything they can think of.


Maximum 2.5m wide (including any overhang).No more than 150mm out the side of skinny trucks/utes/trailers but if you are already 2.5m wide no overhang allowed.

Maximum hanging off the back of the tray or trailer is 1.2m without a flag. Maximum behind the axle (or centreline of bogies or middle wheel of triples) 3.7m. You can play with your overhang up to this distance. ie if you are already 3.7 out the back no overhang allowed. If you have a real short tray, a ladder can stick out past the axle line up to 3,7m but if it exceeds 1.2m past the end of the body/tray you need a flag - same distances out the front if you say have a long pipe on a roof rack.

As you say, all the other dimensions in the instruction on wheelbases, trailer lengths etc do take a couple of adding and subtraction sums.

Unusual for a government instruction is a bit of common sense advice that regardless of what the figures say, the whole aim is to keep it safe. Things like, even if the load is within the legal dimensions but hard to see (a bit of waterpipe over the tailgate of your ute) you should put a flag or something visible on it. You can have reflectors now on overhangs - might save the boaties having to fit light boards on the back additional to the trailer fixed lights. This is why they now must have a flag on their outboard props because they are more than 1.2m past the back of the trailer.

I think it is a well laid out instruction and handy to keep in the glovebox.

Lang

You're not implying that one of our fearless law enforcers might get it wrong???

Stranger things have happened.