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BRAKE CODING: The Heavy Brake Rule

Please read below - taken from the LTSA website. PLEASE feel free to give us a phone call or use our online chat facility for more information (or clarification) on the Heavy Brake Rule.

The Heavy Brake Rule and it's implementation (from LTSA Website)

The Heavy Vehicle Brakes Rule (HVBR) applies to all heavy vehicles. Heavy vehicles are vehicles with a gross vehicle mass of 3500 kg or more.

The HVBR covers two implementation issues:

• Standards compliance – for imported, modified or New Zealand-built heavy vehicles
• In-service brakes testing – to ensure adequate braking in all conditions of loading.

Factsheets

• Guide to vehicle tie-down points for chassis load simulation - and letter (PDF, 686 KB)
• March 2008 (PDF, 185 KB)
• February 2008 (104 KB)
• November 2007 (PDF, 89 KB)

Question and answers

Answers to some frequently asked questions about implementation of the heavy vehicle brakes rule.

Changes to chassis ratings from 1 July 2008

The Heavy Vehicle Brakes Rule came into force on 1 March 2007 and included the requirement that all heavy vehicles entering the New Zealand fleet after 1 July 2008 would need to prove they had been certified as meeting an approved brake standard.

Means of proving the heavy vehicle meets an approved brake standard are given in:

• Vehicle inspection requirements manual: Entry certification, Brakes: 8-1 Service brake and park brake (PDF, 232 KB), pages 8-1-3 and 8-1-4, and
• Vehicle inspection requirements manual: Entry certification, Technical bulletin 31 – Brakes standard compliance (PDF, 287 KB).

As a result of heavy vehicle brakes now having to meet an approved brake standard, there have been changes to the chassis ratings that can be applied to used heavy vehicles imported from Japan. From 1 July 2008 vehicles will no longer be able to get chassis ratings altered from those that were applied to a vehicle when it was on the road in Japan. The key change is that a vehicle's gross vehicle mass (GVM) must now be that on the vehicle's deregistration (or export) certificate. Nominal towing capacities will be based on Article 12 of the Safety Regulations of Japan. Towing capacities greater than these can be determined by a Land Transport NZ-recognised engineer.

The new method may create some discrepancies between the chassis ratings obtained for these vehicles and vehicles put on the road before 1 July 2008. Those earlier values were determined by a different method which is no longer able to be applied under the Heavy Vehicle Brakes Rule.

Because the new method is simpler than the previous method, there will be no charge for chassis ratings from 1 July 2008.

For chassis ratings submitted from 1 July 2008 onwards the following procedures and application forms are to be used:

• CR1 chassis rating procedure (PDF, 51KB)
• CR2 powered vehicles chassis rating request form (PDF, 51 KB)
• CR3 trailers chassis rating request form (PDF, 57 KB)