Pursuant to Regulation 16A (1) (f) of the Heavy Motor Vehicle Regulations 1974, and pursuant to powers
sub-delegated to me by the Director of Land Transport Safety, I, Simon Christopher Whiteley, Manager Safer Vehicle Policy, hereby exempt the vehicles specified in Schedule 1 of this notice from the requirements of the Code of Practice for the Attachment of Logging Bolsters to Trucks and Trailers Used in the Transport of Logs, subject to the conditions specified in Schedule 2 of this notice.
Schedule 1
Vehicle details
Make: Kenworth
Model: T650 truck
Registration No.: YT 6567
VIN No.: 6F5000000XA420280
Make: Hino
Model: FY truck
VIN No.: JHDFY1KULXXX10166
Make: Evans
Model: 4-Axle convertible trailer
Registration No.: Z 1867
VIN No.: 7A8511060295611231
Make: Evans
Model: 3-Axle convertible trailer
VIN No.: 7A85N050200384030
Schedule 2
Conditions
(1) Bolster attachments to use existing design with 250,000km recorded truck operation without failure.
(2) Minor modifications to the existing design are only permissible if the certifier can demonstrate by calculation or approved type test that the performance and life of the bolster attachments have not been diminished by the modifications.
(3) This exemption will expire on recertification of the bolster attachments to a type testing process approved by the Log Transport Safety Committee and the
Land Transport Safety Authority, or on the expiry of
6 months, whichever occurs soonest.
Signed at Wellington this 28th day of March 2000.
S. C. WHITELEY, acting under authority sub-delegated to me by way of instrument of delegation dated 3 May 1999.