Revision question · Environmental issues

Which large vehicles are more likely to damage the road surface?

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Vehicles with a mixture of tyre makes

Vehicles with a mixture of re-cut and new tyres

Vehicles with faulty spray-suppression equipment

Vehicles with faulty suspension

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Vehicles with faulty suspensionThis was the right answer

Faulty suspension, including ineffective dampers, can increase changing wheel loads and road deterioration. The vehicle’s static weight already acts on the road with sound suspension. Report the defect and arrange repair; there is no universal damage percentage or automatic conclusion about nearby buildings or buried services.

Reviewed reading for this question

Working dampers help control road-loading forcesReviewed guidance summary · The reviewed modelling specifically compares maintained and failed dampers; the misleading archived explanation is corrected separately.

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