Can popular PBS trucks enter mainstream regulations?
When Australia’s Performance Based Standards (PBS) Scheme commenced it was envisaged that new and improved truck and trailer configurations would emerge and that some of these would be so popular that they would become common under the Scheme. If these popular PBS configurations could somehow be added back into the mainstream mass and dimension regulations, their level of adoption by the industry and their consequent impact on the broader economy would both increase significantly. This paper examines the rise of the PBS ‘truck and dog’ combination, and presents a proposal for how this combination may be treated under mainstream regulations without undue compromise on the safety checks and balances that have hitherto applied to it under the PBS Scheme.
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Authors:
- Di Cristoforo, R
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- Publication Date: 2014-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 9p
- Monograph Title: Expanding horizons: 13th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Transport Technology, San Luis, Argentina, 27-31 October 2014
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Heavy duty vehicles; Heavy vehicles; Policy, legislation and regulation; Trucks by number of axles
- Geographic Terms: Australia
- ATRI Terms: Articulated vehicle; Axle configuration; Heavy vehicle; Performance based standard (PBS); Transport regulation
- Subject Areas: Motor Carriers; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01553543
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 17 2015 1:46PM