Section 14: Weight requirements

Ontario

Vehicle Weights and Dimensions — For Safe, Productive and Infrastructure-friendly Vehicles

Part III — Preconditions for Designated Vehicles or Designated Combinations

14. (1) The following designated vehicles and vehicles within designated combinations must be designed to load equalize within the meaning of subsection (2):

1. Designated trucks 3 and 5.

2. The semi-trailer in designated tractor-trailer combinations 2 to 7, 9, 10 and 15.

3. The pony trailer in designated truck-trailer combination 2. O. Reg. 457/10, s. 14 (1).

(2) A vehicle load equalizes if,

(a) in the case of designated truck 3, the weight of the auxiliary self-steering axle or forced-steer auxiliary pusher axle is not more than 500 kilograms greater or less than 33 per cent of the weight on the tandem axle;

(b) in the case of designated truck 5, the weight of the self-steering axle is not more than 500 kilograms greater or less than the average weight per axle of the tandem axle;

(c) in the case of the semi-trailer in designated tractor-trailer combinations 2 to 7, 9 and 10, the weight of each self-steering axle is not more than 500 kilograms greater or less than the average weight per axle of the tandem, tridem or quadruple axle;

(d) in the case of the semi-trailer in designated tractor-trailer combination 15, the weight of the tandem axle is not more than 500 kilograms greater or less than 67 per cent of the weight of the tridem axle; and

(e) in the case of the pony trailer in designated truck-trailer combination 2, the weight of the self-steering axle is not more than 500 kilograms greater or less than the average weight per axle of the tandem axle. O. Reg. 457/10, s. 14 (1).

(3), (4) Revoked: O. Reg. 457/10, s. 14 (1).

(5) A semi-trailer forming part of designated tractor-trailer combinations 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 15 must be equipped with,

(a) a device that accurately displays the total weight on the trailer axles in kilograms; or

(b) a device and a table or chart, from the combined use of which the total weight on the trailer axles in kilograms may be readily and accurately obtained. O. Reg. 413/05, s. 14 (5); O. Reg. 457/10, s. 14 (2).

(6)-(8) Revoked: O. Reg. 457/10, s. 14 (3).

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