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Checks you should carry out every time you tow a trailer, caravan or horsebox with a car, to make sure you're towing safely and legally.
What you need to check inside and outside of the vehicle when you do a lorry or other HGV walkaround check.
Health and safety issues and regulations for farm vehicles, machinery and equipment: risk assessments and good practice.
Axle, wheel bearing, wheel and tyres, tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS), and suspension (including springs, shock absorbers, and suspension arms and joints) rules and inspection for car and passenger vehicle MOT tests.
Nosewheel detached whilst taxiing, RAF Northolt, South Ruislip, Middlesex, 1 June 2022.
Product recall for Burley Ballz® QR Skewers presenting a risk of injuries
The length that a motor vehicle can extend past the rear axle and details of vehicles which are exempt from this rule.
Check if you need to register a trailer to take it abroad, create an account to register your trailer, manage details of registered trailers.
You must register commercial trailers over 750kg gross weight and all trailers over 3,500kg gross weight before towing them through some European countries.
Failure of nose landing gear axle, on departure from London Stansted, 15 September 2017.
Vehicles which must have the annual test - buses, coaches, lorries and trailers, booking and fees.
Product recall for Rock Exotica Omni Block 1.1 Aluminium Swivel Pulley presenting a risk of injuries.
Find out if you need the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) qualification to drive a lorry, bus or coach, or if you could be exempt.
Check the tariff classification for automated component placement machines used to manufacture printed circuit assemblies.
The UK suspension of the MAGEC system (modified MAGEC X system only) has been lifted as of 23 February 2024
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