Shafted by the EU vans and trailers now need an O licence

[R0G]

iguana said:

Which ståtes you Will be exempt from o licencing "unless you are operating för hire or reward"

You Will require a standard o licence when you are carrying other peoples goods "för hire or reward"

I think you will find that when carrying own goods with something like a 3.5 tonne van and a trailer over 1020 unladen that the operator will need a restricted O licence

[wack]

That's correct , over 1020kg needs an o licence but it'd need to be a pretty big trailer to get over that, my Brian James flatbed is 21ft total length and only comes in at 770kg

[shovelheadrob]

We have an exhibition trailer made by Ifor Williams http://www.iwt.co.uk/products/box-van/box-van-brak... the one at the bottom of the list, 1030kg unladen, fortunately one of our directors has just bought a new Discovery so we can tow it with that rather than my van.

[GC8]

Theyd have plated it down by 15kgs, if youd asked, I believe.

[iguana]

Ah excuse my odd phone punctuation post earlier, nor sure what that was all about, anyway yes its the 1020kg trailer weight thats the issue behind vans, & restricted O needed above that, very easy to be over that tho, lightest I could get my old trailer to empty was 1080kg & new one is 1500kg.

The link to the pdf in question is below-


http://assets.dft.gov.uk/publications/small-traile...

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GC8 said:

Theyd have plated it down by 15kgs, if youd asked, I believe.

How can an unladen weight be differently plated = it would need to be MADE lighter

[GC8]

Good point. Only half-read, obviously...

[shovelheadrob]

I don't know if that weight include the spare wheel, if so it might be a simple way round it, although the unladen weight is not shown on the trailer.

[R0G]

Two more links of interest - both PDFs

http://assets.dft.gov.uk/publications/small-traile...

http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&key...