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, Peter Waring, Principal Engineer, 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: ERF
Model: EC 8X4
VIN No.: SAF65C4DB0S094421
Make: Patchell
Model: 3CV
VIN No.: 7A8KJ020299991105
Schedule 2
Conditions
1. Bolster attachments to use existing design with 285,000km 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 re-certification 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 26th day of September 2000.
P. WARING, acting under authority sub-delegated to me by way of an instrument of delegation dated 1 March 1999.