Abstract
The TAD vehicle damage rating scale was field tested on a small scale for several months in North Carolina. A test of inter-rater reliability for highway patrolmen using the TAD scale showed there is relatively good agreement among raters as to damage type and severity level. Problems in the use of the scale are noted. A second test involved psychological scaling of the TAD manual pictures and showed that the various TAD scales lacked the desired scale characteristics of equal appearing intervals.