one for brit pete or inselaffe here
i remeber reading in T&D recently about developments in trucks and read about the germans bringing in a rule about 10bhp per ton
is this still in effect and are they strict because i loaded paper the other week in duisberg and couple of poles and slovaks loading at 40 ton with old volvofh 380’s
Not sure about this, but it was Barbara Castle’s 6bhp per tonne Law that killed off Scamell Scarabs here in the 1960’s.
Not heard any thing about a new rule being brought in(?)
yes there was some sort of rule for the trucks when going
over the brenner, but not for germany ,How is it
that we have have used mercedes trucks with 250, and 280
bhp, for 40tns, the only stipulation with the above is that
they were not allowed to pull a container for kombi traffic
(rail-traffic-44tn) after a dispute with the relevant german
transport office
I think that “rule” (10hp/t) is a rule of thumb as to what do you need today, kind of standard of todays trucks; coined by journalists (perhaps).
The actual legal limit is stated by an EU directive to be 5kW/t (of GCW). it was that sort of number for most countries even before EU-wide regs.
And those 5kW/t drop to something like 2.5 for heavy loads.
i have absolutely no idea what kw/t is but i read only recently maybe 2 or 3 months ago in T&D that the germans brought in the 10bhp/t which is why more modern trucks needed to have bigger engines.
it was in the best truck ever article about the newer vehicles being different by such a long way to what were then good trucks but tiny engines so i think it was more of a construction rule than a rule of thumb?
i just wondered whether the rule was still in force as many eastern europeans buy second hand smaller engines then struggle around without those of us who have decent trucks being able to overtake them and therefore ensuing huge caravans build up behind them