How to tell if you need a towing licence

[Marula]

It would probably be cheaper to read up and then take the test, if you fail you will probably have gained the knowledge required to pass next time.

 

 

 

Total cost £230, probably cheaper than training and less time consuming or irritating

 

 

Are you talking the trailer license or the class 1 & 2?

[openspaceman]

Hi Skyhuck that's also possible as have my bus pass too.....

 

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So have I and used it once in 5 years, it would have been faster to walk.

[Justme]

so how much can I tow behind my mog, seeing as i passed my test pre 97

 

 

No idea. Is it a lorry or agri registered?

 

What does the weight plate say?

 

Do you have any other licence apart from the B BE C1 C1E D1 D1E?

 

If not and its not agri then I will assume that it is a sub 7500kg Mog so GTW will be limited by your licence to 8250kg.

 

GTW is based on real weights.

 

This could be miles out as I dont have enough facts to work on.

[Justme]

So what's the biggest thing they would fail on ?

 

 

Big list.

 

Most would fail the hitching & unhitching.

Some on the reverse but not many of the experienced ones

(some tractor drivers cant do it)

All would fail on the drive for things like

effective obs

mirror use

anticipation

use of speed

speeding

appropriate speed

Lane choice at junctions / roundabouts

 

On a 1 hour assessment (remember the full test is about 90 mins) which includes a bit of talk & some coaching to see if they can fix faults easily once identified (more on that later) most would rack up about 4 serious or dangerous fails. Add in the fails for the hitch & you are looking at 4-7 fails on a 1/2 test.

 

Re identified faults. I am not too worried with where they are but if they can respond to training quickly.

[Justme]

I'd say class 1 and 2 from experience, the split gear box and procedure would baffle you without training. If you touch a curb anywhere you're done, if you do your test in a small town or village it's bloody difficult with training, without, no chance.

 

Your out of date the gearbox procedure has gone

 

Its all auto boxes now for LGV / PSV.

[Justme]

Once you have your B+E licence your only really limited up to a transit and a trailer up to about 1.8 tonne depending on if it's a single or a double cab. Some tree firms run 7.5ton trucks which then they need a C+E licences.

 

I guess a transit can take 1000kg & most 3500kg trailer will take 2-2500kg. So about 3000kg plus payload.

 

7500kg trucks need C1 & C1E not C or CE.

[Justme]

My mother was in the WRNS in the war and before she went her uncle persuaded her to take her driving test.

 

When she ended up at the Naval Station at Treligga in Cornwall aged 17, she found that she was the only Wren there with a licence so she had to drive the ambulance and the fire tender, both large machines but the fire tender really was a quite big lorry, which #i think towed a big trailer, so she always maintained that she had a licence to drive a lorry till the day she died

Was she correct?

 

 

 

During the war you can get an exemption to drive any vehicle for operational needs. She would also have had a C1E licence so 7500kg trucks were ok & back then the restriction did not apply so it was the full 12000kg GTW.

 

Plus fire tenders have exemptions.

[Marula]

Your out of date the gearbox procedure has gone

 

 

 

Its all auto boxes now for LGV / PSV.

 

 

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!!! Those cheating little bastards...... I would have loved an auto on test day!

[swinny]

Got my b+e, dont know why people hold themselves back!

 

Need to do 7.5t test next n trailer test again:001_rolleyes:

[openspaceman]

My mother was in the WRNS in the war and before she went her uncle persuaded her to take her driving test.

 

My dad drove in burma in 1944 for the RAF this qualified him for a full english licence for all categories when his provisional was converted to full in 1946, he never drove again till I gave him lessons in 1971 and never got the hang of it so gave up

 

When she ended up at the Naval Station at Treligga in Cornwall aged 17, she found that she was the only Wren there with a licence so she had to drive the ambulance and the fire tender, both large machines but the fire tender really was a quite big lorry, which #i think towed a big trailer, so she always maintained that she had a licence to drive a lorry till the day she died

Was she correct?

 

Sort of, IIRC we all could claim grandfather rights for lorries by stating you had driven lorries commercially for more than 12 months prior to 1967, you may have needed to be over 21 at the time. Failing to claim meant you lost the entitlement.

 

Then the test was 2 axle to 16 tonnes (class 3??) Multi axle rigid to 26 tonne and artic to 28tonne (class 1). I didn't claim but think I was probably too young at the time (and hadn't driven more than bedford RL)

 

A chap I know who came from a posh family was driven to his private school by his elegant mother in the early 60s. They were stuck in a traffic jam when the driver of a tank transporter had a heart attack and his 17 year old squaddie co driver couldn't . Stubbsy's mum climbed into the lorry and set off down the road with it to a parking place, she had been in the ATS during the war, he was gobsmacked.