# Protection Against Shifting Cargo—Any vehicle without a front-end structure or equivalent device as required — Vehicle inspection defect categories: MOT major, minor and dangerous verdicts

For Protection Against Shifting Cargo, defect is Protection Against Shifting Cargo—Any vehicle without a front-end structure or equivalent device as required; category is Reject; inspection item number is 6; defect reference is b; inspection item is Safe Loading, recorded from its source on 2026-08-06.

- **Defect:** Protection Against Shifting Cargo—Any vehicle without a front-end structure or equivalent device as required _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Category:** Reject
- **Inspection item number:** 6
- **Defect reference:** b. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Inspection item:** Safe Loading
- **Authority:** US 49 CFR Appendix A to Part 396 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> b. Protection Against Shifting Cargo—Any vehicle without a front-end structure or equivalent device as required.

## Source

- https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/appendix-A_to_part_396

Last verified: 2026-08-06. Review by: 2027-02-02.
Part of [Vehicle inspection defect categories: MOT major, minor and dangerous verdicts](https://referencesource.org/vehicle-inspection-defect-categories/).