68Method of determining wheel loads

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.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the wheel may weighed—

(a) alone, or

(b) together with another wheel or wheels forming an axle group of which the wheel being weighed forms part.

(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.

(4) In this Division, wheel load means the mass transmitted to the road by a wheel.