Running vehicles on red diesel

[Steve Bullman]

This always seems a grey area as it is with unimogs, but today i was told of an access hire company that told its customer you can run red diesel in a truck with mounted platform. sounds highly suspect to me, can anyone give any info on this please?

[Steve Bullman]

sorry, to add, this is not mounted on a unimog

[Yorkshireman]

yes its legal

 

however if you put a load in the bucket or elsewhere then its not

[Steve Bullman]

a load being??

 

how can it be legal?

[jpbeaver]

it also has to be over 3500kg. its then classed as a crane.

[Amelanchier]

That wouldn't be an access hire company near me would it Steve? We long lease a Z20 on a Cabstar from them and have been running it on red for about two years now. Taxed as plant as well i think. Apparently as its a dedicated platform and can't be seperated into vehicle and platform its classed as self-propelled plant. Weird but legal.

All their fleet of truck-mounts including the 26m mounted on a 7.5 are all on red.

 

Not sure about the 3.5t bit, I have a crap post '97 licence and as such am limited to 3.5t gross, which is handy as that's what the cabstar is... 3.5t dead.

[Steve Bullman]

its not near you tony.

so how about some of them arbtruck bodies that have appeared recently, with chip box, and boom, can they be run on red?

[Amelanchier]

 

Prolly not.

[Mr Ed]

Actually, they can. I've looked at the legality's of this carefully. I run my platorm on red, and I know thats fully legal - and there is nothing I can find in the lawbooks about carrying a load on a platform. I have been thinking about importing yank forestry trucks, 50ft overcenter booms with a chip body - no operators licence needed, and legal to run on red.

[MattyF]

my old man used to run his open backed transit platform on red..........used to make a good tool carier and hedge trimming rubish carrier as well