Case law has indicated that a demountable body or container which can be lifted on and off a vehicle is not a load but part of the vehicle and has to be included when calculating the vehicle’s overhang.
News to me! Certainly changed since i did my cpc. When did this occur?
Goaty:
Case law has indicated that a demountable body or container which can be lifted on and off a vehicle is not a load but part of the vehicle and has to be included when calculating the vehicle’s overhang.
Has anyone got a link to this case law?
One thing I did find is that Cartright, SDC and a couple of other manufacturers offer pull out bumpers as an optional extra
Lucy:
newmercman:
That is indeed correct, that’s why the front corners of a 13.6m box are chamfered in and why newer multi pin skellies have an extra set of pins solely for 13.6m or 45’ boxes45ft and 13.6m boxes are actually supposed to go on different pins. The front ones are theoretically for 45fts ONLY, and there are big signs - certainly on our trailers - saying they are NOT to be used for 13.6 swapbodies.
Yeah, my mistake 
