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chapter 5 — skills for driving trucks and trailers

Marking/identification — A front-end structure must be attached according
fast fact to its manufacturer’s recommendations. It must also be identified in one of
two ways:
TAC is the Transportation
Association of Canada. To 1. permanently marked with its model number or serial number, the name
determine whether your and address of its manufacturer, and its rated capacity for cargo weight.
vehicle is a TAC vehicle, 2. identified by a copy of a letter, signed by the manufacturer or a
refer to the Commercial
Transport Regulations. TAC professional engineer and carried in the vehicle, that certifies its model
vehicles must meet different number or serial number, and its rated capacity for cargo weight.
standards from non-TAC
vehicles. Load projections

Loads that project beyond your vehicle can cause problems. Projections
fast fact take up additional road space and may intrude on other traffic lanes and
space beside the roadway, especially when you’re turning your vehicle. Allow
Front load projections on yourself extra room when you transport cargo that has projections.
trailers can’t extend more You must follow the standard limits for load projections unless you have a
than a two metre radius permit that allows you to extend your limit.
beyond the articulation
point for TAC (BC) vehicles Front — Loads can’t extend more than one metre beyond the front wheels.
or 2.25 m for non-TAC (BC) Or, if the vehicle is equipped with a front bumper, the load can’t extend more
vehicles.
than one metre beyond the front bumper.

Here are two examples
of acceptable front load 1 m
projections. In the top
illustration, the load extends
a maximum of one metre
beyond the front bumper.
The bottom illustrations
show two views of the same
load. This load extends a
maximum of a two metre
radius measured from the
kingpin (TAC (BC) vehicle).

Sides — Loads can’t be more than 2.6 m wide. Vehicles transporting loose
hay or straw can’t be wider than 3.1 m (vehicle and load).

2.6 m

Since the load on this
vehicle exceeds the legal
width requirements, you’ll
need an oversize permit.
See Oversize and overload
permits later in this chapter.

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