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Thread ID: 76881 2007-02-19 07:35:00 Carrying of passengers Valerie (4740) PC World Chat
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525705 2007-02-19 07:35:00 Can anyone advise if it's legal to carry passenger(s) on the tray of a flat deck ute and/or in a boat being towed on a trailer?

Thanks
Valerie (4740)
525706 2007-02-19 07:46:00 Why do people need laws to stop them pulling stupid stunts?

Anyway, Click the seatbelt and away you go.

What?, No seatbelt?
Metla (12)
525707 2007-02-19 07:50:00 Its best to carry them on the boot. wotz (335)
525708 2007-02-19 08:46:00 Can a passenger ride in a light trailer or boat while it’s being towed?

This is not recommended. Riding in or on a vehicle, or an object which is being transported on a vehicle, in a manner or position that may cause injury is prohibited e.g. no-one may sit on a load while it is being towed.

www.ltsa.govt.nz
godfather (25)
525709 2007-02-19 09:00:00 and it also includes campervans!

if you are stuck with a single cab ute what some of the guys do is fit seats on the deck.
tweak'e (69)
525710 2007-02-19 19:15:00 Never mind legal - think about safe.
Would you put a child there and drive?
How would you feel when they fall out?
pctek (84)
525711 2007-02-19 19:53:00 its actually not that bad. worse thing is a side on impact accident or rolling over and being flung off the ute. head on accident you simply get crushed up against the the headboard which you are sitting against.

mind you you also tend to FREEZE riding oon the back too ;)
tweak'e (69)
525712 2007-02-19 20:26:00 Campervans have to have a seat belt installed for each berth.
We have the normal belts in the cab of our 4 berth motorhome plus two more in the seating area. All checked during the 6 monthly COF test.

The answer to the original question, NO.
Sue (33)
525713 2007-02-19 23:11:00 Hey hey hey :D, When I was seven I was thrown from the back of a ute,head first into the rear cab window, Luckily it had bars over it, (to stop tools breaking the window) and I merely had my head shattered (no points for originality to anyone who says "well, that explains a lot), Hows that for sh1ts and giggles kiddies??:thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:

Good fun for everyone...woot woot....I personally would love to hand out a beating with an iron bar to anyone retarded enough to stick a kid on the back of a ute......
Metla (12)
525714 2007-02-19 23:13:00 I personally would love to hand out a beating with an iron bar to anyone retarded enough to stick a kid on the back of a ute......

So have you yet then?
pctek (84)
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