Trailer spec question

Saw a grain truck today (Riodens I think) Kenworth 608 with body over the drives towing 5 axle dog. Question is do these out fits need to be specificly enginered to get vic rego? Could someone for example buy/hire tandem dolly and tri tipper and set up behind body truck? Provided GCM and length requirements are met of course.

Pharmr Brown
Gudday M8

round the suburbs on a selected route
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probly/much the same axle space nz to a B duble
but with a F Long Drawbar

rule of thumb sez when the towed trailer is heavier than the truck towing the the trailer by draw bar..the item with the greater weight decides where the rig could/would end up



Cya
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evening all i have seen those cartage aus trucks pulling into a quarry i do deliveries into man do they work hard some of those trucks are only 440 horse plenty of banging and groaning going on cheers whale

What would be the licence requirements to drive one of these jigers HC or MC?

Swishy

My thought on those is its a lot of weight relying only on a ring feeder/drawbar.

Trevor

Saw a grain truck today (Riodens I think) Kenworth 608 with body over the drives towing 5 axle dog. Question is do these out fits need to be specificly enginered to get vic rego? YES Could someone for example buy/hire tandem dolly and tri tipper and set up behind body truck? NO Provided GCM and length requirements are met of course.

Farmer Brown, These operate under the PBS scheme.

Bit of light reading for you..

www.ntc.gov.au/DocView.aspx?documentid=00238

www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/Moreinfoand...ceBasedStandards.htm

Thanks Vic. I recond there would probably be sumthin like that. :

As for licence I guess it would be HC. But would expect that running under the PBS scheme it would depend on any conditions that the vehicle is running under in this configuration.

Going by the Vicroads site. A HC is:-

A prime mover to which is attached a single semi-trailer that has a GVM more than 9 tonnes plus any unladen converter dolly; or A rigid motor vehicle to which is attached a trailer that has a GVM more than 9 tonnes plus any unladen converter dolly.

And a MC is:-

A Heavy Combination vehicle with more than one trailer. The vehicle must be B-Double rated and have all the relevant documentation, permits etc. (The trailers may not be dollies. The combination must be at least 22 metres in length, in B-double configuration, and loaded to 75 percent of its carrying capacity.)

To a degree the above indications of MC also indicate why can't just put a Dolly under a tipper. As it says for the MC no dollies. And for the HC unloaded dollies only.

gday fella,s whats the 75 % load capacity mean as far as mc license ?? whale

That quote would be related to the vehicle in which you take your test. Used to be that you could run empty for the test.