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Written Question
Large Goods Vehicles: Testing
Monday 25th November 2024

Asked by: Will Forster (Liberal Democrat - Woking)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 to permit 44 tonne operations.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Permitted weights are governed by the Road Vehicles (Authorised Weights) Regulation 1998, as amended. Under these regulations, many goods vehicles are already permitted to operate at up to 44 tonnes.