This SAE Standard applies to all self-propelled machines with a gross vehicle mass greater than 5000 kg that are utilized to clean material from highways, parking lots, airfield runways, outside paved areas that are principally exposed to vehicular traffic. These machines may also be involved with road construction/repaving work. Primary ethods for material removal and cleaning can be by mechanical, pneumatic, washing and flushing systems, or in a combination of any system.

To identify self-propelled cleaning equipment, which are grouped into self propelled sweepers and cleaning equipment classified under the Earthmoving Machine category of SAE J1116.