Cheap Trailor ?

[Ashtonr]

Has anyone used a towing dolly to transport to the IVA test ? Seen these plans on Ebay looks fairly simple after building a Chassis

[Jimmyd]

I'll stand to be corrected but something tells me a dolly is only legal if used for roadside recovery or some such waffle.

J

[twinturbo]

Drive to the IVA.

TT

[robo]

Might be ok. Two wheeled drive cars can legally tow 60% of their kerbside weight four wheel drive are 100% of kerbside weight. Trailers dont need to be braked untill they are over 750kg, so in theory providing you comply with the rest of the towing blurb you should just about be all right. best to check all of this out because I am old and stupid.

Bob

[Davey]

Sorry to s a y it Bob but your last sentence is the only one close to the truth (only joshing pal, couldn't resist it :-) ).

Towing dollies are only legal for recovery to a safe place not for transport of vehicles.

D.

[twinturbo]

If the combined trailer + load is under 750KG then it can be unbraked and used over any distance, if over then it must be braked. Good dollys are braked and suitable for long distance towing. Generally dollies are misused.

Rember also that if you passed your test after Jan 1997, you can't tow anything over 750KG without doing a trailer test.

TT

[robo]

Originally Posted by Davey

Sorry to s a y it Bob but your last sentence is the only one close to the truth (only joshing pal, couldn't resist it :-) ).

Towing dollies are only legal for recovery to a safe place not for transport of vehicles.

D.

Cant get safer than a vosa depot. <just being old and stupid>. Us old gits take it for granted that we can tow things. As tt points out a dolly in affect would be classified as a trailer so you do need to check you license. The 4x4 boys round here tow their green laners on those solid a bar things, thats two tons of unbraked trailer and no one seems to be bothered about it.

Bob

[AshG]

Originally Posted by twinturbo

If the combined trailer + load is under 750KG then it can be unbraked and used over any distance, if over then it must be braked. Good dollys are braked and suitable for long distance towing. Generally dollies are misused.

Rember also that if you passed your test after Jan 1997, you can't tow anything over 750KG without doing a trailer test.

TT

yes you can tow more than 750kg as long of the total weight of the vehicle trailer and load on the trailer is under 3.5 tonne

[twinturbo]

Not quite sure what your saying Ash, but Class B drivers >1997 can't tow anything over 750KG.


Category B+E: Vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes MAM towing trailers over 750kgs MAM

Category B+E allows vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes MAM to be combined with trailers in excess of 750kgs MAM. In order to gain this entitlement new category B licence holders have to pass a further practical test for category B+E. There is no category B+E theory test. For driver licensing purposes there are no vehicle/trailer weight ratio limits for category B+E.



TT

[robo]

This all happened when they revised the licence cats. They dropped the gvw of a car license to 3500kg and made in affect the 7500kg an lgv license. It all causes havoc here as some of the younger drivers are not aware of some of these rules. There is also talk of trailer mot`s coming in so any home grown device may need some kind of type approval in the future. The same is happening for this year about a tow bar needing to be type approved, goodbye home grown tow bar devises.

Bob