Regulatory Guide 5.17

Truck Identification Markings

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Issue date:	01/31/1974
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January 1974 U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

REGULATORY GUIDE

DIRECTORATE OF REULATORY STANDARDS

REGULATORY GUIDE 6.17 TRUCK IDENTIFICATION MARKINGS

A. INTRODUCTION

Systems Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the assistance of the New York City Police Department. The Paragraph 73.31(e) of 1O CFR Part 73, "Physical results of the project have been published in a DOT

Protection of Plants and Materials," requires that report entitled "Truck.Top Markings for Visual vehicles used to ship by road quantities of special Identification," I DOT P 5200.8, August 1973. Chapter nuclear material identified in §73.1(b) (2) be marked on IV of this report presents guidelines for the appearance top with identifying letters or numbers which will of truck-top markings and for suitable materials.

permit identification of the vehicles under daylight

,onditions from the air in clear weather at 1.000 feet

C. REGULATORY POSITION

above ground level. This paragraph also requires that the same code of letters and numbers be marked on the sides and rear of the vehicle to permit Identification from the The methods and materials recommended in Chapter fround. This guide identifies methods acceptable to the IV of DOT publication DOT 5200.8 "Truck-Top Regulatory staff for complying with the Commission's Markings for Visual Identification" 'are generally regulations with regard to markings applied to a road acceptable to the Regulatory staff for complying with

"vehicleto enhance its identification from the air. the Commission's regulation for marking vehicles so that they can be identified from the ai

B. DISCUSSION

aides and rear of the vehicle should be similar to tnose on the top except that the size of the markings need not The Department of Transportation (DOT) has be the same.

concluded a project to determine the most useful sizes I Copies may be obtained from the Superintendent of s.iapes, location, and colors for truck-top markings. This Docmnents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

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