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Vehicle Standard (Australian Design Rule 62/01 – Mechanical Connections Between Vehicles) 2006

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Administered by
  • Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts

This item is authorised by the following title:

Superseded version
F2006L0145311 May 2006 - 17 July 2007

This standard was originally made under section 7 of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 and from 1 July 2021 continues in force as if it were a national road vehicle standard determined under section 12 of the Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018 (see Schedule 3, Part 2, item 2 of the Road Vehicle Standards (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2018).

This Standard repeals each vehicle standard with the name Australian Design Rule 62/01 — Mechanical Connections Between Vehicles that is: (a) made under section 7 of the Motor Vehicles Standard Act 1989; and (b) in force at the commencement of this Standard. This Standard also repeals each instrument made under section 7 of the Motor Vehicles Standard Act 1989 that creates a vehicle standard with the name Australian Design Rule


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Incorporated by reference

  • Australian Standard 1771 - 1987 "Installation of Fifth Wheel and Turntable Assemblies" : s6.2

  • Australian Standard 2175-1995 “Articulated Vehicles-Kingpins" Appendix D : s7.2

  • Australian Standard 2213 - 1984 "50 mm Pin-type Couplings and Drawbar Rings for Trailers" : s8.1.1

  • Australian Standard 4177.2 - 1994 "50 mm Towballs" : s9.1

  • Australian Standard 4177.3 - 1994 "Coupling Body for Ball Couplings" : s10.1

  • Australian Standard 4235 - 1994 “Articulated Vehicles - Design criteria for fifth wheel skid plates" : s7.3

  • ISO 8718 - 1988 “Commercial road vehicles-Drawbar couplings and eyes for hinged drawbars-Strength test" : s8.1.2

  • ISO 8755 - 1986 "Mechanical connections between towing vehicles and trailers - 40 mm drawbar coupling" : s8.1.2

  • Vehicle Standard (Australian Design Rule - Definitions and Vehicle Categories) 2005: s4.1