ASAE/ASABE S276.8 : Standards PDF Share

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Implements of husbandry/agricultural equipment and other slow movingmachines, either self-propelled or towed, are often moved betweenoperational sites that are not contiguous. Transport may involve movingon public roads (infrastructure) at ground speeds less than 40 km/h (25mile/h). This standard provides a means of identifying such slow movingequipment to communicate to third parties traveling on such public roadsas to the relative speed of such equipment to other vehicles utilizing thepublic roads.

This Standard establishes specifications that define a unique identification emblem, the Slow-MovingVehicle Emblem (SMV Emblem), to be used only for slow-moving machines (vehicles), when operated ortraveling on public roads. The requirements and applications of the standard are defined in the standard. Thepurpose is to communicate to third parties the slower speed capabilities of the slow-moving vehicle to othervehicle(s) using public roads. The primary application of this SMV emblem will be with implements of husbandrybut may be used with other machines or vehicles that travel at speeds less than 40 km/h (25 mile/h) and incombination with a Speed Information Symbol (SIS) on vehicles which travel at speeds between 40 km/h(25 mile/h) and 65 km/h (40 mile/h).