# The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, Regulation 8: Width

Extent: E+W+S

(1) Save as provided in paragraph (2), the overall width of a vehicle of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table shall not exceed the maximum width specified in column 3 in that item.
TABLE
(regulation 8(1))
1
2
3
Item
Class of vehicle
Maximum width (metres)
1
A locomotive, other than an agricultural motor vehicle.
2.75
2
A refrigerated vehicle, conditioned container or swap body
2·60
3
Any other motor vehicle.
2.55
4
A trailer drawn by a motor vehicle other than a motor cycle.
2.55
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
8
A trailer drawn by a motor cycle.
1.5
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a broken down vehicle which is being drawn in consequence of the breakdown.
(3) No person shall use or cause or permit to be used on a road a wheeled agricultural motor vehicle drawing a wheeled trailer if, when the longitudinal axes of the vehicles are parallel but in different vertical planes, the overall width of the two vehicles, measured as if they were one vehicle, exceeds 2.55 metres.
(4) In this regulation—
“refrigerated vehicle” means any vehicle which is specially designed for the carriage of goods at low temperature and of which the thickness of each of the side walls inclusive of insulation, is at least 45 mm; and
“conditioned container or swap body” means a container or swap body used to carry goods at controlled temperatures on different modes of transport.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-8
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