Performance Requirements

COL4/6/2022 CH. 5 SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTION OF CERTAIN VEHICLES

(a)Brake performance shall conform to the requirements set forth in the most recent Uniform Vehicle Code of the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws and Ordinances.

(b)Linkage between any combination of vehicles shall conform to the current recommended practice of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

(c)Vehicles in regular operations shall be permissible only when such loads are transmitted to the highway surface through wheels equipped with pneumatic tires, and no such tire equipment shall be designed for use or used with an operating inflation pressure in excess of one hundred five

(105)pounds per square inch.

(d)Vehicles in regular operation shall be permissible only when on said vehicles, the wheels of the last axle in contact with the highway surface are covered by fendering and/or mud flaps, or a similar device that will deflect any object thrown by the wheels in motion.

(e)Vehicles in regular operation shall have their identification numbers painted in a contrasting color and at a minimum height of three

(3)inches. These numbers shall be in a conspicuous place on the front and rear of that vehicle. The company name will be clearly displayed on the side doors of all vehicles in regular operation. Numbers, license plates and all lights shall be wiped clean before any and all hauls.

(f)Vehicles operated on any highway and loaded and carrying any of the following loads shall have said load covered and secured in such manner as to prevent said load or covering from being loosened, detached or in any manner creating litter or constituting a hazard to other users of the highway:

(1)Any trash, refuse or garbage of composition which is of such nature as to permit any portion or piece of such to be loosened or detached.

(2)Sand, soil, crushed rocks or aggregate of less than four inches (4") per unit/pebble or other standard measure for such aggregate. COL4/6/2022 CH. 5 SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTION OF CERTAIN VEHICLES

(3)Any liquid or similar load that if leaking will cause a road hazard.

(4)Any other load, which in the opinion and discretion of the Guam Police Department, the Guam Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Public Health and Social Services, or the Department of Parks and Recreation, poses a potential hazard or potential litter is such load were not covered and/or secured.

(5)The Guam Police Department shall promulgate rules and regulations, pursuant to the Administrative Adjudication Law, governing the enforcement of this subparagraph (f), which regulations shall not include any requirement for a permit for the private hauling of loads unless the same are hazardous and being hauled commercially, but shall include a requirement that trucks must be equipped with mudflaps to prevent their tires from ejecting pebbles and other debris to following vehicles.