Empty trailer definition

Empty trailer means a trailer that does not contain freight. A trailer that contains only items used for the handling or securing of freight, such as moving blankets, straps, moving dollies, and tool kits that are used in the transport of other items in the trailer, or to maintain the tractor or trailer on the road, is considered an empty trailer.

Related to Empty trailer

  • semi-trailer means any trailer designed to be coupled to a motor vehicle in such a way that part of it rests on the motor vehicle and that a substantial part of its mass and the mass of its load is borne by the motor vehicle;

  • Semitrailer means every vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a

  • Antique trailer means every trailer or semitrailer, as defined in this section, that was actually

  • Pole trailer means every vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach or pole or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads such as poles, pipes, or structural members capable, generally, of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.

  • Trailer means every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers