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(SOV3) Forklifts (does not include tractors, trucks or multi-purpose vehicles fitted with forks)
Front overhang (distance ahead of front of driver’s seat)—6.0 metres

(SOV4) Rigid trucks with a gross vehicle mass exceeding 3500 kg and fitted with a snow plough blade
Front overhang (distance ahead of front of driver’s seat)—4.5 metres
Width—3.1 metres

(SOV5) Verge mowers and hedge trimmers on regulation sized vehicles
Front overhang (distance ahead of front of driver’s seat)—4.5 metres
Width—3.1 metres

(SOV6) Concrete pumps, personnel lifting buckets and aircraft fertiliser loaders on regulation sized vehicles
Rear overhang—the lesser of 85% of the wheelbase or 5.0 metres

(SOV7) Aggregate chip spreaders on regulation sized vehicles
Width—3.1 metres

(SOV8) Semi-trailers and full trailers fitted with road metal crushers, screening plants or log hauliers. Trailers fitted with road metal conveyors.
Semi-trailers and full trailers fitted with road metal crushers, screening plants or log hauliers.
Width—3.1 metres
Overall length of combination—22.0 metres
Forward distance—11.0 metres at a width of 2.5 metres reducing uniformly to 10.5 metres at a width of 3.1 metres
Rear overhang—5.0 metres

Trailers fitted with road metal conveyors
Rear overhang—6.0 metres

(SOV9) Drilling Rigs fitted to regulation sized vehicles
Rear overhang—the lesser of 85% of the wheelbase or 5.0 metres
Front overhang—5.0 metres

(SOV10) Fertiliser spreaders
Width—3.1 metres
Rear overhang—the lesser of 65% of the wheelbase or 3.2 metres for trucks under 9.5 metres in length or the lesser of 65% of the wheelbase or 3.7 metres for trucks at least 9.5 metres in length

Second Schedule

Operating conditions

The special overdimension vehicles described in this notice must be operated in compliance with the requirements set out in the corresponding documents SOV1 to SOV10 (inclusive) produced by the Land Transport Safety Authority.

Signed at Wellington this 19th day of August 1998.

W. R. PETTERSSON, Senior Engineer, Safer Roads.

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General Approval—Special Overdimension Loads

Pursuant to Regulation 49 of the Traffic Regulations 1976, and by way of a subdelegation from the Director of Land Transport Safety dated 18 December 1996, I, Wayne Robert Pettersson, Senior Engineer, hereby approve the operation of the vehicle types and loads described in this notice contrary to the provisions of regulations 48b to 48d subject to compliance with the operating conditions specified in the relevant documents in the Second Schedule.

Vehicles and loads of the types described in the First Schedule and which exceed the dimension limits described in this schedule cannot operate unless a specific approval has been issued to that vehicle and load under regulation 49A.

This notice comes into effect on the 1st day of September 1998. However the period between 1 September 1998 and 1 August 1999 shall be deemed to be a transitional period in which any existing overdimension exemption relating to any of these load types remains in force.

First Schedule

Definitions

In this schedule—

The term “SL” followed by a specific number relates to a document in the Second Schedule specifying the operating requirements for a particular type of special overdimension load.

Types of Vehicles and Loads and excessive dimensions permitted

(SL1) Baled hay or wool carried on a regulation sized heavy motor vehicle
Width—2.7 metres
and no more than 1.35 metres either side of the centreline of the vehicle

(SL2) Concrete pipes with a diameter of 0.4 metres or more loaded transversely across the deck on a regulation sized vehicle
Width—2.7 metres
and no more than 1.35 metres either side of the centreline of the vehicle

(SL3) Regulation dimension heavy motor vehicles carrying steel for transmission towers, gin poles, telegraph poles or power poles, ladders for work on such poles, or fitted with sheer legs to aid the erection of such poles, where these items are the only ones exceeding the regulation dimensions