{"id":792,"date":"2012-01-24T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T11:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/news\/?p=139"},"modified":"2012-01-24T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T11:49:43","slug":"sdc-gets-approval-for-all-five-longer-semi-trailer-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/sdc-gets-approval-for-all-five-longer-semi-trailer-models\/","title":{"rendered":"SDC gets approval for all five longer semi-trailer models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trailer manufacturer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdctrailers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SDC<\/a> has been granted approval by the Vehicle Certification Agency, an executive agency of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dft.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Department for Transport, <\/a>for all five of its longer semi-trailer models.<\/p>\n<p>Under the stipulations of the ten year longer semi-trailer trial all specifications of trailer must meet the turning circle requirement set out in regulation 31A(1) of the Construction and Use regulation 1986 \u2013 meaning the tractor (either 4&#215;2 or 6&#215;2) and trailer must be able to turn in a 12.5m circle.<\/p>\n<p>SDC models meeting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dft.gov.uk\/vca\/aboutvca.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VCA mandatory requirements for Vehicle Special Order<\/a> are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>14.65m self steer rated for 44-tonnes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>15.65m self steer rated for 44-tonnes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>15.65m single Tri Dec command steer rated for 44-tonnes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>15.65m single Muldoon command steer rated for 44-tonnes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>15.65m twin Tri Dec command steer rated for 44-tonnes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SDC managing director Mark Cuskeran says: \u201cWe are delighted to be the first manufacturer to achieve our LST Model Report which makes our range of trailers road legal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were quite confident that our trailers would pass the physical testing carried out by the VCA as we have currently 70 longer semi-trailers in build.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trailer manufacturer SDC has been granted approval by the Vehicle Certification Agency, an executive agency of the Department for Transport, for all five of its longer semi-trailer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 13:34:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}