Compliance with mass requirements
96 Compliance with mass requirements
A person who drives, or permits another person to drive, a heavy vehicle on a road must ensure the vehicle, and the vehicle’s components and load, comply with the mass requirements applying to the vehicle, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty—
for a minor risk breach—$4000; or
for a substantial risk breach—$6000; or
for a severe risk breach—$10000, plus an additional maximum $500 for every additional 1% over a 120% overload (but so that the additional maximum penalty does not exceed $20000).
If a PBS vehicle is authorised by its PBS vehicle approval to have a mass limit that exceeds a limit that would otherwise apply to the vehicle under a prescribed mass requirement, the authorised limit is taken to be the applicable limit, and the vehicle is regarded for the purposes of this Law as complying with the prescribed mass requirement.
This section does not apply to a heavy vehicle that is prescribed as a specified PBS vehicle under a regulation made under section 136.
Note—
If a heavy vehicle that is prescribed as a specified PBS vehicle does not comply with the mass requirements that apply to the heavy vehicle, it would be a class 2 heavy vehicle and could be dealt with under section 137.
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