National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act No. 93 of 1996)RegulationsNational Road Traffic Regulations, 2000Chapter VI : Fitness of VehiclesPart IV : Loads on vehicles238. Load on tyres |
| (1) | No person shall operate on a public road a motor vehicle— |
| (a) | which is fitted with pneumatic tyres, where any wheel massload is in excess of the wheel massload referred to in the appropriate part of the standard specification SABS 1550 "Motor Vehicle Tyres and Rims: Dimensions and Loads", Part 1: "General", Part 2: "Passenger car lyres", and Part 3: "Commercial vehicle lyres"; or |
| (b) | where any pneumatic tyre is not mentioned in the standard specification referred to in paragraph (a), where the wheel massload is in excess of the wheel massload approved by the manufacturer of the tyre concerned: |
Provided that for the purposes of determining the pressure in a tyre the temperature of the tyre shall be disregarded.
| (2) | No person shall operate on a public road any vehicle fitted with tyres, other than pneumatic tyres, if the wheel massload exceeds eight kilograms per one millimetre width of any such tyre. |