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After Sales & Service at West Wood Trailers<\/h3>\n

It is very important that trailers are serviced regularly for both your own and other road users safety. It will also prolong the life of most mechanical parts and in the long run it saves you time and money.<\/p>\n

Westwood Trailers pride ourselves in after sales and our experienced staff in our fully equipped workshop can deal with all repairs, servicing and modifications. Our workshop staff are Ifor Williams Trailers accredited service technicians, qualifying through the main manufacturing plant.<\/p>\n

Over the past number of years the RSA (Road safety authority) have carried out Trojan work in making our roads a safer place to be, and they steadily along with the Department of Transport have quantified and standard set, areas of road use, including towing and trailers.<\/p>\n

From the RSA website,<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019The Road Safety Authority is introducing a number of reforms to improve the roadworthiness standard of commercial vehicles and trailers on our roads. Find out more about the implications of this reform program on RSA.ie.\u2018\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n

Also from the RSA website<\/p>\n

Trailer Road Traffic Regulations<\/h3>\n

\u2018\u2019All trailers must meet with Irish Road Traffic Regulations when in use in a public place. These regulations set out the law in relation to weights, lights, brakes, plating, under-run, side-guards, securing of loads, etc\u2018\u2019<\/p>\n

In addition to the Road safety laws set out, sporadic manufacture of trailers is now standardized through the EU Type approval mechanism. (Please refer to link below).<\/p>\n

Trailer Type Approval \u2013 from 29th October 2012<\/h3>\n

For safety, environmental, and trade reasons, the EU has set common construction standards for motor vehicles and trailers. Any trailer that has been approved to these standards can be first licensed in the State in the case of heavy goods trailers, or sold in the case of light trailers. From October 29th 2012 onwards, trailers must comply with these standards, known as European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval (ECWVTA), whereby tests are carried out on a representative trailer, and subsequent trailers manufactured are issued with approval certification from the manufacturer in order to allow them to enter into service.<\/p>\n

There are also new national schemes to approve trailers: both those manufactured in low volume in Ireland, and for trailers manufactured or imported individually. The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) is the Irish appointed approval authority and is responsible for issuing National Approvals for trailers in Ireland. NSAI has established a network of Appointed Test Centre\u2019s (ATC\u2019s) who physically examine and issue test reports for some or all of the technical requirements. These test reports are then used by NSAI to grant the trailer approvals.<\/p>\n

Information Notes have been prepared for light trailers and heavy trailers in order to provide further clarification on the system of type approval applicable to these vehicles from the 29th of October 2012 onwards.<\/p>\n

However, irrespective of type approval or national approval requirements, once trailers are in use on the public road, they must meet the requirements laid out in the \u2018C&U\u2019 \u2018CE&U\u2019, and \u2018Lighting Regulations\u2019 outlined above<\/p>\n

Every vehicle owner must ensure that his or her vehicle or combination of vehicles complies with all applicable Regulations. These are outlined in three main pieces of legislation as follows:<\/p>\n