Downgrading 5t van to 3.5t

[Luke Jones]

Hi, 

 

Was I am looking at downgrading a 5t Iveco daily to 3.5t. Was wondering if anyone has ever done this before and knows any contacts? 

 

Thanks 

[Justme]

Why?

 

Buy a 3.5t to start with.

 

You will get more legal payload.

 

If you want the capacity of the  bigger one then just go that way &

dont run over loaded.

 

It might soon be easier to run vehicles over 3.5t so possibly now is not the time to be doing this.

[doobin]

What whisperings have you heard as regards >3.5t licensing?

[carlos]

i did this a long time ago on a big camper van and used a company called svtech, it was a easy enough process .

[dumper]

Been whispers for a while of hybrid and dual fuel/ electric going to 4 or 5 tonnes can’t  see them uprating diesel or petrol though

[Justme]

1 hour ago, doobin said:

What whisperings have you heard as regards >3.5t licensing?

Well for a start everyone might get the C1 licence with no test.

 

Some of the questions were about CPC ect.

 

Not much point giving everyone the licence and keeping all the other limits the same.

[Justme]

Just now, dumper said:

Been whispers for a while of hybrid and dual fuel/ electric going to 4 or 5 tonnes can’t  see them uprating diesel or petrol though

That happened a while ago to 4.250T. They are now looking at doing it just for elec & removing or reducing the need for extra training.