Introduction
It has been widely recognised and the principle accepted, both by the freight transport industry and the law enforcement authorities, that there is a need, in certain cases, to extend the responsibility of heavy vehicle overloading to the consignor and consignee, who may also benefit from the overloading of freight vehicles.
A precedent has already been set with the new dangerous goods legislation. The NDoT prepared draft consignor/consignee legislation during 2000, which was revised during 2003. It was published in October 2014 as legislation and became effective on 31 Jan 2015
How Regulations 330 A,B,C and D are likely to affect you
These new regulations, which came into effect on January 31st 2015, could have severe financial and practical implications that affect all players in the transporting of goods of more than 500 tons per any one month, on public roads in South Africa today.
Please note that these new regulations do not cancel, but further explain,...
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