Transporting abnormal loads

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Services

• Register your trailer to take it abroad

  Check if you need to register a trailer to take it abroad, create an account to register your trailer, manage details of registered trailers.

• ESDAL abnormal load notification

  Use the ESDAL system to plot your route when transporting abnormal loads

• Get an abnormal load trailer keeper's certificate to use it abroad

  Get a 'certificate of keeper' for your abnormal load trailer if you want to use it outside the UK, or replace a lost certificate.

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Guidance and regulation

• Securing loads on HGVs and goods vehicles
  • Manual
  • 20 July 2023
  • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• How to prevent vehicles from hitting bridges
  • Guidance
  • 9 July 2014
  • Department for Transport
• Using abnormally large or heavy vehicles on the road
  • Guidance
  • 27 September 2018
  • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

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Policy papers and consultations

• Increasing the weight limit for fuel tankers
  • 2 April 2024
  • Department for Transport and Department for Business and Trade
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 17 May 2023

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Organisations

• Department for Transport
• Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
• Department for Business & Trade
• Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency