Interpretation ID: nht71-5.26

DATE: 12/17/71

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; Richard B. Dyson; NHTSA

TO: Maxim Motor Division

COPYEE: STAN HARANSKY

TITLE: FMVSS INTERPRETATION

TEXT: This is in response to your letter concerning the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 206. Your letter(Illegible Word) forwarded to us November 10, 1971, by Mr. Stan Haransky. Associate Director of the Truck Body and Equipment Association, Inc.

You ask whether the standard would prohibit the manufacture of fire trucks without side doors on the cabs. According to your letter, the trucks are built without side doors in order to allow firemen to enter and exit the cabs quickly during emergencies.

Standard 206 does not require that any type of motor vehicle be equipped with side doors. The standard requires only that if a vehicle subject to it has hinged or sliding side doors, they must conform with the standard's performance requirements for hinges, locks and latches.

Please write if I can be of any further assistance.