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Road Transport (General) Regulation 2021
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#### 68 Method of determining wheel loads
68 Method of determining wheel loads
> > (1) For the purpose of determining the wheel load of a wheel of a motor vehicle or a trailer, the wheel is to be weighed in a way so that the wheel or wheels are weighed together with the portion of the vehicle and load supported by the wheel or wheels.
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> > (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the wheel may weighed—
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> > > (a) alone, or
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> > > (b) together with another wheel or wheels forming an axle group of which the wheel being weighed forms part.
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> > (3) If a wheel is weighed together with other wheels, the wheel load of the wheel being determined is the mass of all the wheels weighed divided by the number of wheels weighed.
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> > (4) In this Division, wheel load means the mass transmitted to the road by a wheel.