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Hi there, Does anybody use the skip type roll on/roll off loaders on a transit base?

Thinking about using my mates with a my tow behind braked chipper rather than getting a cs100 for my trailer.

Just doing small takedowns or pruning limbs and keeping timber above 3 inch for my own firewood.

 

Any thoughts appreciated

 

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Hi,

We've got an old hook-lift with a couple of drop-side bodies -a really useful bit of kit for tree and landscape work, that we've had for over 10 years now. It's an ex-local authority 5.2 ton Iveco with a crew cab, which gets around the need for an operators licence. Great for moving compact tractors, chip and loads under 1.5 tons

 

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5 minutes ago, green heart said:

Hi,

We've got an old hook-lift with a couple of drop-side bodies -a really useful bit of kit for tree and landscape work, that we've had for over 10 years now. It's an ex-local authority 5.2 ton Iveco with a crew cab, which gets around the need for an operators licence. Great for moving compact tractors, chip and loads under 1.5 tons

 

Hello,  can u elaborate some more please on how you avoid the O licence please?

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To respond to your queries, in the best way I can ( sorry I'm rubbish with computers!) :

We were advised 10 years ago, by the truck garage/supplier, that the Iveco crew-cab hook-lift was regarded as ' a passenger carrying/multi-purpose vehicle' and as such, was 'exempt' from the requirements for an operators licence. I was surprised to see this even applied to a larger 8.5 ton crew-cab hook -lift that they had for sale, at the time. 

Sorry I don't know how to post a useful link to the gov't small-print, I'm afraid...but I just easily checked it again, on the Government website.

Otherwise, there are some impressively knowledgeable folk on here , who will be able to verify this (I trust!).

We find the crew-cab facility is actually really useful .

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1 hour ago, green heart said:

Sorry I don't know how to post a useful link to the gov't small-print, I'm afraid...but I just easily checked it again, on the Government website.

Go to the government website again and put your cursor in the address bar, click it and select all the address, copy that and post it in this thread.

1 hour ago, green heart said:

Otherwise, there are some impressively knowledgeable folk on here , who will be able to verify this (I trust!).

Not me Gunga Din as I cannot find this exemption

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55 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Go to the government website again and put your cursor in the address bar, click it and select all the address, copy that and post it in this thread.

Not me Gunga Din as I cannot find this exemption

I am guessing:

https://www.gov.uk/being-a-goods-vehicle-operator/exemptions

 

"Is a passenger carrying vehicle..."

Not convinced that a crew cab is going to classed as a passenger carrying vehicle... but hey they have got away with it for 10 years....

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