Motor Vehicles Act 1949
62Determination of laden mass of vehicle, wheel load and load
Start here
Get a plain-English read of 62
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Motor Vehicles Act 1949.
62 Determination of laden mass of vehicle, wheel load and load on tyre (1) The laden mass of a vehicle shall be deemed to be: (a) where all the wheels of the vehicle are weighed simultaneously on a weighing machine or weighing machines, the mass shown by the weighing machine or the total of the masses shown by the weighing machines, as the case may be; or (b) in any other case, the aggregate of the axle loads on the axles or group of axles of the vehicle. (2) The wheel load on a wheel of a vehicle shall be deemed to be the load on the axle to which the wheel is attached, divided by the number of wheels attached to the axle. (3) The load on a tyre of a vehicle shall be deemed to be the axle load on the axle to which the wheel with the tyre is attached, divided by the number of tyres on the wheels attached to that axle.