pre 97 licence

[Ollie Wall]

Agreed the trailer thing is silly I can drive a tractor with a fully laden trailer only restriction is the trailer is no bigger than 2.5 metres wide! but i can't tow anything behind the landy its so frustraiting just keep on trying to bleed money out of you!!

[czhey]

I don't think you are suppose to specify 'pre 97' in a job advert- age discrimination apparently!!

But it is perfectly fine to say 'must have C1+E driving license'.

Would you apply to drive HGVs and say its not fair because you don't have an HGV license?

 

 

 

Twistedhicap- are you sure about that? I did my HGV 1 and 2, and I definitely have B+E on my license. If you do a test, you are given all entitlements below that, e.g do a C test you get C1, do your C+E and you get C1+E and B+E.

 

 

 

Charlie

[czhey]

Agreed the trailer thing is silly I can drive a tractor with a fully laden trailer only restriction is the trailer is no bigger than 2.5 metres wide! but i can't tow anything behind the landy its so frustraiting just keep on trying to bleed money out of you!!

 

You can tow 750KG, like a small chipper.

 

 

 

There is a complicated rule- something like you can tow 3500KG minus your landy's GVW (2400KG?) allowing you to tow 1100KG. as long as this does not exceed your UNLADEN weight. - Google it.

 

Charlie.

[twistedhicap]

Charlie at the time he did his it came ack with just the classes he had tested for ! and i know for a fact he did the c+e afterwards as we both ranted about it they may have changed stance but this was 6 7 years ago !

 

At the time we seamed miffed that you could take 44 tones of wagon and drag around but not a trailer over 750kgs behind a car lol !!!

[czhey]

Charlie at the time he did his it came ack with just the classes he had tested for ! and i know for a fact he did the c+e afterwards as we both ranted about it they may have changed stance but this was 6 7 years ago !

 

At the time we seamed miffed that you could take 44 tones of wagon and drag around but not a trailer over 750kgs behind a car lol !!!

 

Yes, the rules are ridiculous sometimes!

 

Reason i did HGV1 was because it meant i could drive anything (cost about £2000), just to do trailer test i was quoted about £1000, and apparently the test is harder!

[twistedhicap]

yup Dan said same ! silly country we live in !

[Ollie Wall]

ok thanks guys tbh i'm not old enough to do the HGV's, the info on the chipper towing is very helpfull!

[czhey]

ok thanks guys tbh i'm not old enough to do the HGV's, the info on the chipper towing is very helpfull!

 

Off the top of my head its 17 to do B+E (trailer license) 18 to do C1 (7.5ton truck no trailer) and 21 to do the others.

 

Don't forget about tachographs....

 

 

 

Charlie.

[scottythepinetree]

Hi Ollie, at 17, just hang on a few years mate and all those guys with the unfair advantage will have to make do with a bus pass, while you plough through the puddle at the bus stop laughing in a 7.5 tonner towing a chipper.

 

Just get your trailer license as said above. Most employers will see you as streets ahead with that at your age. Just be thankfull you don't live over here. Employers can't let you drive company vehicles until you're 25 on most insurance policies.

[David Humphries]

I'm in need of getting a couple of guys through trailer test.

 

Any one have any experience of the training?

 

How long, where you did it, cost etc?

 

appreciated

 

 

 

 

 

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