Maximum load overhang

[treebloke]

This was being discussed on Land Rover forum and I thought it would be applicable to a few of us at some point. Basically I think it means (and if you fully understand it you are a better man than me) you can have a maximum 3 mtr rear overhang without a marker and a 2 mtr forward overhang. Not sure how far you can go with a marker?.

 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/11/made

[fergusonforestry]

:confused1:

 

all I got from that was agricultural vehicles exempt

[jrose]

I've looked into this, and even went into the local police station to check my findings. Basically, I need to transport 30' douglas poles on a 110 land rover, and needed to know if I can do it.

 

The rules as I understand it:

 

Front overhand can be a maximum of 2 metres

 

Rear overhang can be up to:

1 metre with no action needed,

2 metres if "End made clearly visible"

3.05 metres with a marker board such as this

 

Any more than 3.05m backward or 2m forward and you go down the road of attendants, police notification etc.

 

Here's the Department of Transport PDF

And this page has a useful table at the bottom

[Peter]

Spot on jrose. Treebloke the link you posted is referring to overhang on the vehicle itself not the load.

 

FWIW the maximum overhang to the sides of the vehicle is 305mm, without getting into police escorts etc.

[Stephen Blair]

 

This is legal:)

[agg221]

I've looked into this, and even went into the local police station to check my findings. Basically, I need to transport 30' douglas poles on a 110 land rover, and needed to know if I can do it.

 

The rules as I understand it:

 

Front overhand can be a maximum of 2 metres

 

Rear overhang can be up to:

1 metre with no action needed,

2 metres if "End made clearly visible"

3.05 metres with a marker board such as this

 

Any more than 3.05m backward or 2m forward and you go down the road of attendants, police notification etc.

 

That entirely matches my understanding.

 

I think the original link relates to the construction of the vehicle - i.e. how much overhang over the axles you are allowed to build in. This only relates to carrying loads if you go trying to make your vehicle longer to reduce the overhang. So, for example, if you have a load that projects 2.5m over a drop tailgate you can 'fix' the tailgate down to make it a fixed part of the vehicle and reduce your overhang below 2m, so you no longer need a rear marker board. However, you can only do this so much (in line with the original link). Without this, in theory you could stick a 10m tailboard on your Ford Fiesta and legally carry 16m lengths with nothing more than a bit of rag on the end!

 

There is a table of what constitutes the fixed parts of the vehicle for overhang measurement purposes. I don't know where it is online - I was emailed it by a helpful bloke at DfT when I was trying to work out if the width measurement was made over the body of the trailer or the wheel arches to determine whether my load was over width. I'll stick it up when I find it.

 

Also worth noting, the category of '2 days notice to the police' requires that you inform the county constabulary of every county you will pass through. Living where I do, that would have meant a 10min drive required notifying three counties. Rather glad the width turned out to be measured over the wheel arches rather than the body.

 

Alec

[jrose]

Glad I've got it right I still worry a bit as carrying these poles is a bit like Land Rover jousting, but as far as I'm aware I'm doing nothing wrong...

 

Note these pictures were taken off the public highway (just in case)

 

 

[treebloke]

I've looked into this, and even went into the local police station to check my findings. Basically, I need to transport 30' douglas poles on a 110 land rover, and needed to know if I can do it.

 

The rules as I understand it:

 

Front overhand can be a maximum of 2 metres

 

Rear overhang can be up to:

1 metre with no action needed,

2 metres if "End made clearly visible"

3.05 metres with a marker board such as this

 

Any more than 3.05m backward or 2m forward and you go down the road of attendants, police notification etc.

 

Here's the Department of Transport PDF

And this page has a useful table at the bottom

 

To be honest if I had to transport something which overhung in excess of the above I would get a longer vehicle:001_cool:.