De Saxe, CKienhofer, FNordengen, Paul A2013-01-282013-01-282012-09De Saxe, C., Kienhofer, F. and Nordengen, P.A. 2012. Tail swing performance of the South African car-carrier fleet. 12th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Transport Technology (HVTT12), Stockholm, Sweden, 16-19 September 2012http://hvttconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Ses_D_2_De-Saxe-et-al.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/646212th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Transport Technology (HVTT12), Stockholm, Sweden, 16-19 September 2012The practice of issuing of abnormal load permits to South African car-carriers (allowing a 300 mm increase in height and 500 mm increase in length) is being phased out. Such allowances will only be granted if a car-carrier complies with the Australian Performance-Based Standards scheme, which is currently the basis for a PBS demonstration project in South Africa. This study calculated that only 20% of the existing South African car-carrier fleet complies with the required 0.30 m Level 1 tail swing limit. This limit is shown to be consistent with the 3.7 m rear overhang limit enforced by the Australian Design Rule 43/04. In contrast, South African legislation allows rear overhangs of up to 7 m. This is shown to result in a tail swing of 1.25 m. A proposal to temporarily relax the 0.30 m tail swing limit to 0.45 m, and hence include around 80% of the existing fleet, was turned down by the South African road authorities.enPerformance-Based StandardsCar-carriersTail swingVehicle dimensionsSouth African Heavy Vehicle LegislationConference PresentationDe Saxe, C., Kienhofer, F., & Nordengen, P. A. (2012). Tail swing performance of the South African car-carrier fleet. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6462De Saxe, C, F Kienhofer, and Paul A Nordengen. "Tail swing performance of the South African car-carrier fleet." (2012): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6462De Saxe C, Kienhofer F, Nordengen PA, Tail swing performance of the South African car-carrier fleet; 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6462 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - De Saxe, C AU - Kienhofer, F AU - Nordengen, Paul A AB - The practice of issuing of abnormal load permits to South African car-carriers (allowing a 300 mm increase in height and 500 mm increase in length) is being phased out. Such allowances will only be granted if a car-carrier complies with the Australian Performance-Based Standards scheme, which is currently the basis for a PBS demonstration project in South Africa. This study calculated that only 20% of the existing South African car-carrier fleet complies with the required 0.30 m Level 1 tail swing limit. This limit is shown to be consistent with the 3.7 m rear overhang limit enforced by the Australian Design Rule 43/04. In contrast, South African legislation allows rear overhangs of up to 7 m. This is shown to result in a tail swing of 1.25 m. A proposal to temporarily relax the 0.30 m tail swing limit to 0.45 m, and hence include around 80% of the existing fleet, was turned down by the South African road authorities. DA - 2012-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Performance-Based Standards KW - Car-carriers KW - Tail swing KW - Vehicle dimensions KW - South African Heavy Vehicle Legislation LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2012 T1 - Tail swing performance of the South African car-carrier fleet TI - Tail swing performance of the South African car-carrier fleet UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6462 ER -