Abstract
Because of the various design principles of commercial vehicles and the ever- increasing advances of vehicle combinations insuring optimum utilization of space, i.e., single trucks or buses, truck- trailer combinations, semitrailer combinations, articulated buses, platform road trains, and short coupling truck combinations, the handling characteristics of these vehicles are definitely more distinct from each other. A description of the handling characteristics as compared with existing designs will be of great importance to the classification of new vehicle combinations. This paper gives a survey of the measuring procedures applied so far and the findings as published on the handling characteristics of heavy commercial vehicles.