Kenworth T470 - Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards Compliance

Section 2
Safety & Compliance
08/09
2-2
FEDERAL MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY
STANDARDS COMPLIANCE
As an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Kenworth Truck Co. ensures that our products comply with all applicable
U.S. or Canadian Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. However, the fact that this vehicle has no fth wheel and that a
Body Builder (Intermediate or Final Stage Manufacturer) will be doing additional modications means that the vehicle was
incomplete when it left the build plant. See next section and Appendix A for additional information.
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An Incomplete Vehicle Document is shipped with the vehicle, certifying that the vehicle is not complete. See Figure 2–1.
In addition, afxed to the driver’s side door frame or edge is an Incomplete Vehicle Certication label. See Figure 2–2. For
further information on Vehicle Certication and Identication, see APPENDIX A “VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION.”
These documents list the U.S. or Canadian Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard regulations that the
vehicle complied with when it left the build plant. You should be aware that if you add, modify or alter any
of the components or systems covered by these regulations, it is your responsibility as the Intermediate
or Final Stage Manufacturer to ensure that the complete vehicle is in compliance with the particular
regulations upon completion of the modications.
FIGURE 2-1. Incomplete Ve-
hicle Certication Document
FIGURE 2-2. Locations of Certica-
tion Labels - Driver’s Door and Frame
NOTE
U.S. EPA Noise Label (U.S. registered vehicles only)
Final Stage Manufacturer
Label to be Installed by
Final Stage Manufacturer
Chassis Serial
Number
Major Components and
Weights Label
Incomplete Vehicle
Certication Label
Safety Mark (Canadian
Registry Only)
Tire, Rim and
Weight Rating
Data label
As the Intermediate or Final Stage Manufacturer, you should retain the Incomplete Vehicle Document for your records. In
addition, you should record and retain the manufacturer and serial number of the tires on the vehicle. Upon completion of
the vehicle (installation of the body and any other modications), you should afx your certication label to the vehicle as
required by Federal law. This tag identies you as the “Intermediate or Final Stage Manufacturer” and certies that the vehicle
complies with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. (See Figure 2–2.) Be advised that effective September 1, 2006, a new
regulation affects the intermediate and nal stage manufacturer certication process and documentation.
In part, if the nal stage manufacturer can complete and certify the vehicle within the instruction in the incomplete vehicle
document (IVD) the certication label would need a statement that reads, “This vehicle has been completed in accordance
with the prior manufacturers‚ IVD where applicable. This vehicle conforms to all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standards [and Bumper and Theft Prevention Standards if applicable] in effect in (month, year).”
However, if the vehicle can not be completed and certied with in the guidance provided in the IVD, the nal stage
manufacturer must ensure the vehicle conforms to all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). The nal
stage manufactures certication label would need a statement that reads, “This vehicle conforms to all applicable Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards [and Bumper and Theft Prevention Standards if applicable] in effect in (month, year).”