towing with tractor/unimog

[18 stoner]

and you cant tow over 750kgs without a trailer licence on the road, madness

 

Not meaning to derail, but as ive found out recntly, thats not entirely true.

 

You can tow more so long as the trailer is not capable of carrying a load that combined with the towing vehicle, does not exceed 3500kgs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here we go:001_rolleyes:

[Chris Sheppard]

yes, but the trailer and load can't be more than so many % of the weight of the vehicle (or something like that) so it's still only a little trailer

[skyhuck]

A unimog can tow 27 tonnes legaly!

The trailer will have brakes so I take it that will be ok and road legal!

 

 

If it is Ag registered you CANNOT legally exceed 24tonnes gross train weight (thats mog and trailer)

[wills-mill]

Not meaning to derail, but as ive found out recntly, thats not entirely true........

 

 

Here we go:001_rolleyes:

 

 

 

The peasants are sharpening their pitchforks and lighting the torches.....

[Mozza]

Any pics of the mog mate??

[18 stoner]

The peasants are sharpening their pitchforks and lighting the torches.....

 

Lol!

 

I feel like going to bed now and facing the Wrath of Kahn in the morning:001_huh:

[garth mc garth]

you will need speed rated trailer to go behind mog, fastrac or 50kph plus tractor. tyres need to be rated for high speed use, brakes will need to be air and commercial spec and running gear ie axles will have to be a cetain type.

the old bill and vosa are tightening up on it all, down here they are quite hot on it after a wheel came apart on a spreader towed by a fastrac doing 80kph and it killed a motorist.

[18 stoner]

yes, but the trailer and load can't be more than so many % of the weight of the vehicle (or something like that) so it's still only a little trailer

 

Yes you are correct Chris, but with say a truck with a MAN of 2000kgs, its perfectly legal for a post '97 license holder to tow a chipper weighing 1200kgs.

[Chris Sheppard]

Yep, that's how i'd understood it - just that finding a vehicle light enough is the hard bit. We've been having right bother with Vosa over this sort of thing - it seems to depend on who you talk to there as to what you can/can't do

 

Unless we're within a 50 k radius of the yard, we can't tow anything at all behind our transit because it's 3.5tonne gvw and to do that we had to have a tacho exemption - to put a tacho in is something like £900 or so - already had one Vosa prohibition notice - was 400 miles away from the yard and they thought they were being nice by gibving us an exclusion which let us drive directly back to the yard at no more than 40mph.

Edited October 9, 2009 by Chris Sheppard

[18 stoner]

Big can of worms this one, unfortunately a very big part of our job.

 

Its very hard finding facts, unless you are unfortunate enough to be in the situation of having an accident, then you have a strong chance of being jumped on!