How to apply horizontal moving loads

As of now the Moving Load generator in STAAD.Pro can generate

loads in vertical direction only. There is no automated facility to add
horizontal loads to these generations. This feature would be
implemented in a future STAAD.Pro version. For now as a temporary
workaround, one can make use of notional loads to have these
horizontal loads generated for each position of the moving load.
Here is an example of how this can be done. Lets say there is a load
case 100 which includes structure selfweight. It is followed by a
moving load generation case which would generate 11 load
combinations from 101 to 111
LOAD 100 LOADTYPE None TITLE SELFWEIGHT
SELFWEIGHT Y -1
LOAD GENERATION 11
TYPE 1 0 0 0 ZINC 1

Subsequently one can manually create additional cases ( using

command editor ) where any of these generated load combinations
can be combined with the horizontal load as shown below

LOAD 1001 LOADTYPE None TITLE LOAD CASE 1001

REPEAT LOAD
100 1.0 101 1.0
NOTIONAL LOAD
101 X 0.1
NOTIONAL LOAD
101 Z 0.1
The above load case 1001 is created by first combining the first of
the generated combinations 101 with the selfweight load case 100.
Horizontal loads ( Notional loads ) are then added by multiplying the
load combination 101 by a factor of 0.1 and these are applied in X
and Z directions simulating a longitudinal thrust and lateral thrust at
the moving load location.

An example is attached uploaded below

Structure1.std
There are a few factors that one needs to keep in mind though
1.

The notional loads can only be generated at nodes. So if the generated moving
load is not on a node but is on a beam, STAAD.Pro would calculate the notional load
and apply it at the nearest node.
2.
One can split the beams into segments to match with the increment in which the
moving load is generated if one needs to generate these horizontal loads at exactly the
vehicle locations.
3.
One needs to use the editor to create these load cases combining the generated
combinations with notional loads and there is no option in the GUI to do that.