{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/schedule-11/part-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/schedule-11/part-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1078",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986",
  "path": "schedule/11/part/5",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "IV (see regulation 77)",
  "heading": "MAXIMUM PERMITTED LADEN WEIGHT OF ARTICULATED VEHICLES",
  "text": "(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nItem\nType of articulated vehicle\nMaximum permitted weight (kg)\n1\nMotor vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1973 and semi-trailer having a total of 5 or more axles\n38,000\n2\nMotor vehicle with 2 axles first used on or after 1st April 1973 and semi-trailer with 2 axles while being used for international transport\n35,000\n3\nMotor vehicle with 2 axles first used on or after 1st April 1973 in which—\n(a)every driving axle not being a steering axle is fitted with twin tyres; and\n(b)every driving axle is fitted with road friendly suspension;\nand a semi-trailer with 2 axles\n35,000\n4\nMotor vehicle and semi–trailer having a total of 4 or more axles and not described in item 1, 2 or 3.\n32,520\n5\nMotor vehicle with 2 axles first used on or after 1st April 1973 in which—\n(a)every driving axle not being a steering axle is fitted with twin tyres; and\n(b)every driving axle is fitted with road friendly suspension;\nand a semi-trailer with 1 axle\n26,000\n6\nMotor vehicle with 2 axles and a semi-trailer with 1 axle being a combination not described in item 5\n25,000",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 Pt. 4 substituted (1.1.1993) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2016), regs. 1, 10(c), Sch. 2 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11 Pt. IV substituted (24.3.1994) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/329), regs. 1, 11(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/schedule/11/part/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:46:09.046037+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}