3.5 ton or bigger??

[openspaceman]

BobG has nailed it.

 

Yes

 

I suppose the reasoning is that B+E is what is needed for personal use, e.g. caravans anything heavier is commercial so can be limited without infringing personal rights.

 

Now what does one do to avoid lapsing the LGV and HGV entitlements?

[Arbtech Tree Services]

The logic is that you can pull a heavier trailer whilst your LGV license is valid, however if your tickets lapses then you only have C1E with code 107 limits. Remember your LGV will lapse if you don't reapply every 5 years whilst your C1E is valid until you are 70. A lapsed LGV does not give you the right to pull a trailer behind a 7.5 tonner, the 107 code is there to remind you of this.

 

So imagine the situation where you have just renewed your licence and your LGV medical. You now have a licence which is valid for 10 years but the LGV part is only valid for 5. If the 107 code was removed because of your C+E entitlement then that would be fine and dandy for 5 years but if,say, you then failed your next medical the 107 code would then come back into force but would you bother to get your licence renewed to reflect this?

 

All coming back to me now, was towing over 750kg behind 7.5t over 20 years ago but didn't think anything of it as I've always had the class I, so looks like paying the doctor and optician every five years will be cheaper than a C1+E test and to be honest if I went over 3.5t with the truck I'd skip the 7.5t and get something more useful anyway.

 

Regards,

 

Steve.

[Arbtech Tree Services]

...Now what does one do to avoid lapsing the LGV and HGV entitlements?

 

Renew every five years, doctors and opticians reports for which they charge.

 

Regards,

 

Steve.

[Justme]

Electronic tacho & CPD?

[Marc Lewis]

Someone said today that even with a pre 97 licence, if you want to drive 7.5 ton for business use, you will need another cert/test/licence, sounded something like cbt (obviously not cbt), can anyone expand on this?

[Craig.]

Someone said today that even with a pre 97 licence, if you want to drive 7.5 ton for business use, you will need another cert/test/licence, sounded something like cbt (obviously not cbt), can anyone expand on this?

 

Driver CPC, I would guess they meant.

[Arbtech Tree Services]

But not for what we do, exemptions run along the lines of the tacho ones.

 

Regards,

 

Steve.

[Marc Lewis]

Thanks craig

[Marc Lewis]

Are you talking about my post arbtech ts?