Travelling in a Lorry

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Does anyone know if it is legal to travel as a passenger in the living section of a lorry?

Also do the normal seat belt rules apply to passengers travelling in the cab?

Just out of interest really.
 
As far as I am aware if the living and cab have a cut through so are in effect connected to each other then yes you can travel in the living. Dont know about seat belts though, my lorry doesnt have them! That was something I meant to investigate the cost of, the passenger seat has a lap strap but that is it.
 
As before - passenger in back has to have contact with those in the cab so only legal if cut/crawl through.

Seat belts aren't a requirement in Commercial Vehicles but I think if fitted they must be worn - not 100% on that though
 
Yes, passengers can travel in the living if there is a cut through. I believe seatbelts must be worn if fitted.

The one people may not know though is children under 12 or might be 14 can't travel in the front seats if seatbelts are not fitted.
 
No seatbelts don't need to be worn. I have them fitted in mine but they don't work and they are never tested during the MOT
 
It's a good question to post on here, as I have also wondered that. But i no for a fact that children can not travel in the front without a car seat if under 4'2ft. and if you do have seat belts in the back, i would fit them on, because you never no..
 
You certainly don't need to use seatbelts. I never bother as there is no way that a 7T moving object will slam to a halt if it hits something (why you have a seatbelt in a car). Also, it means I can lean far forward to look left when turning out at an angle.
 
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You certainly don't need to use seatbelts. I never bother as there is no way that a 7T moving object will slam to a halt if it hits something (why you have a seatbelt in a car).

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Have you ever seen a wagon in a crash?? I they are there then wear them. Unless you want to fly through the wind screen or be impalled on the steerin wheel.
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You certainly don't need to use seatbelts. I never bother as there is no way that a 7T moving object will slam to a halt if it hits something (why you have a seatbelt in a car).

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Have you ever seen a wagon in a crash?? I they are there then wear them. Unless you want to fly through the wind screen or be impalled on the steering wheel.
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A friend of mine was driving in fog on motorway came out of a block of fog to see traffic at a stand still he was in middle lane wagon on left lane bus on right lane & a car in the middle of them. He swearved off into the dyke at side as would of crushed the car to oblivion otherwise. He ended up in not good shape & in passenger footwell. He has mand full recovery now but??? Least he wasn't carrying livestock.
 
Conservation of momentum. Unless I hit an immovable object, or a moving object of similar mass, I will not suffer any significant deceleration, i.e. need a seatbelt.

The only close shaves I have ever had driving the Green Goddess (my lorry) have been with tw@ts in small cars who have overtaken me in dangerous situations. They will scratch my paintwork (good old hammerite). I will total them.

I almost had a tw@t in to a ditch recently when I indicated left to turn in to my yard and had to move to the right to make the turn. In between indicating and moving this gimp tried to overtake me. I nearly had him in the ditch (he had to brake very hard). I would not have stopped, except to laugh at him!
 
Normal seat belt rules apply to the cab- if seat belts are fitted - as for the living area - if you have passengers travelling forward facing ie: in the direction of travel then again seatblets must be fitted by law - which is why us lorry manufacturers design the seating to be partially sideways facing and backwards facing, noramll L shaped seating configuration or horseshoe shaped at the rear of the cab. hope this helps.
 
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