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14th September 2011, 08:43 AM
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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
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14th September 2011, 09:21 AM
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Sorry but a car on a dolly does not become a trailer and even if the dolly wheels are braked the car's wheels touching the road won't be so it doesn't comply with trailer law. A towing dolly is ONLY legal for recovery from a breakdown or accident to a place of safety and then it is limited to 30mph on single carriageways and 40mph on dual carriageways or motorways. I've researched this lot quite extensively in the past due to lots of motorhomers towing cars behind on A frames which by the way don't co0mply with trailer law either.
The answer to getting your car to IVA is to drive it, trailer it or transport on a flatbed/recovery type truck. D.
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14th September 2011, 02:02 PM
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Assuming your going to Southampton for iva it's about an hour run maximum providing you don't break down, a bit longer if you don't go on the motorway.
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14th September 2011, 05:50 PM
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im sure its to do with total mam's when it comes to towing on an later type licence (what i have)
total mam of car and of trailer must be less than 3500kg (mam= maximum alowable mass) i asked a traffic copper about it and he said i could not tow a trailer! then i showed him the back of my licence  but no one has been able to give me a stright answer and some trailers dont have marking so what happens then?good thing is i can tow a trailer of any size with a motor bike or trike after i passed my bike test 
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14th September 2011, 05:55 PM
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14th September 2011, 06:12 PM
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14th September 2011, 06:12 PM
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It's no wonder there is so much confusion, my previous quote was also from a page on the gov.uk website about towing..
So.. The maximu trailer weight a class B can actualy pull is 1750KG, so long as the car they have is exactly 1750KG too. TT
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