Transporting abnormal loads

Services

Register your trailer to take it abroad

Check if you need to register a trailer to take it abroad, create an account to register your trailer, manage details of registered trailers.
ESDAL abnormal load notification

Use the ESDAL system to plot your route when transporting abnormal loads
Get an abnormal load trailer keeper's certificate to use it abroad

Get a 'certificate of keeper' for your abnormal load trailer if you want to use it outside the UK, or replace a lost certificate.

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Guidance and regulation

Securing loads on HGVs and goods vehicles
- Manual
- 20 July 2023
- Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
How to prevent vehicles from hitting bridges
- Guidance
- 9 July 2014
- Department for Transport
Using abnormally large or heavy vehicles on the road
- Guidance
- 27 September 2018
- Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

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Policy papers and consultations

Increasing the weight limit for fuel tankers
- 2 April 2024
- Department for Transport and Department for Business and Trade
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 17 May 2023

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Organisations