Issue Date 01 January 2012
3.10
Brake Efficiency Table (Vehicles with 3 wheels)
MINIMUM BRAKE EFFICIENCIES REQUIRED
PARKING BRAKE
VEHICLES WITH 3 WHEELS (CLASSES 3 & 4)
SERVICE
BRAKE
Vehicles with a
single line service
brake system
Vehicles with a split
(dual) service brake
system
Vehicles with 3 wheels with a service brake operating on
ALL wheels and a parking brake operating on at least one
wheel which were first used:
i)
before 1 January 1968
40%
25%
16%
ii)
on or after 1 January 1968
50%
25%
16%
Vehicles first used before 1 January 1968 which do NOT
have one means of control operating on at least 4 wheels
(or 3 for three wheeled vehicle) and which have one brake
system with two means of control or two brake systems
with separate means of control.
30% from first
means of
control
25% from second means of control
Note: 16% parking brake efficiency equates to a vehicle holding on a gradient of 1 in 6.25
