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Glossary:Goods road motor vehicle

A goods road motor vehicle is a road motor vehicle designed to carry goods (e.g. a lorry), or any coupled combination of road vehicles designed to carry goods, (i.e. lorry with trailer(s), or road tractor with semi-trailer and with or without trailer).

Lorry is a rigid road motor vehicle designed, exclusively or primarily, to carry goods.

Road tractor is designed, exclusively or primarily, to haul other road vehicles which are not power-driven (mainly semi-trailers). Agricultural tractors are excluded.

Trailer is designed to be hauled by a road motor vehicle. This category excludes agricultural trailers and caravans.

Semi-trailer is goods road vehicle with no front axle designed in such way that part of the vehicle and a substantial part of its loaded weight rests on a road tractor.

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