MOTOR LORRIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 79, 3 April 1928, Page 9

MOTOR LORRIES.

AMENDED REGULATIONS. SPEED AND LICENSE FEES. EXEMPTION CONTINUED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Monday. Amendments to the motor lorry regulations have been gazetted. They include a new definition of the term "motor lorry." The effect of the new definition of a motor lorry is that every motor vehicle weighing over two tons with its load, other than private cars and State-owned vehicles, will now be liable for heavy traffic fees. Road rollers, etc., are not included. The exemption is retained of certain taxis which were in use before the original regulations were issued, in 1925, and are still in the hands of the same owners as at that date. Formerly local authorities had power to allow motor lorries licensed for the carriage of passengers or for the carriage of goods and passengers, to increase their speeds by 50 per cent over the speeds fixed by the regulations. Now it is provided that these motor lorries, which are really motor cars or motor buses as defined by the Motor Vehicles Act, may travel at 50 per cent more than the fixed speed without the permission of the local authorities. Another clause alters the licensing year for motor lorries to bring it into line with the licensing year for all motor vehicles. On this occasion the period is to extend from April 1 to May 31, 1929, but thereafter the licensing year will ' run from June 1 to May 31. The concession already given in the case of motor lorries engaged solely in the conveyance of school children—a lesser scale for licensing fees—is retained, and the same concession is extended to lorries engaged solely in the conveyance of workmen employed by the . one firm to and from their work. Motor lorries and trailers of the caterpillar track type are to be allowed the 15 per cent reduction in fees, which is | granted motor lorries fitted with pneumatic tyres on all wheels. ! After June next motor lorries will have to have clearly painted on the right 1 or off side the unladen tare weight ' of the vehicle.