Mog on Arbtrader

[TIMON]

Be honest Ti,

 

It's hard to find parking spaces at the cafe isn't it?

 

 

Ha ha. Didn't you know that "breadvan" was one of the mogs applications..

[skyhuck]

if its agri registred, its not allowed on the motorway

 

Do you have a reference for the legislation that states this?

[Brushcutter]

Do you have a reference for the legislation that states this?

 

My first guess would be the highway code.

253.

Prohibited vehicles.

Motorways

MUST NOT

be used by pedestrians, holders of

provisional motorcycle or car licences, riders of motorcycles under 50 cc, cyclists, horse

riders, certain slow-moving vehicles and those carrying oversized loads (except by

special permission), agricultural vehicles, and powered wheelchairs/powered mobility

scooters (see

Rules 36 to 46

inclusive)

Laws HA 1980 sects 16, 17 & sch 4, MT(E&W)R regs 3(d), 4 & 11, MT(E&W)(A)R, R(S)A

sects 7, 8 & sch 3, RTRA sects 17(2) & (3), & MT(S)R reg 10

 

I know a unimog counts as a fast tractor so is capable of going on the motorway as it can go faster than 20mph which if memory serves in the minimum speed for the motorway. I'm sure it's the taxation class that means its an agri vehicle and thus not able to use it. However if it was registered as an HGV it meet the construction and use regs to use the motorway.

 

My take on it was that it isn't allowed but i see at least on if not 2 Unimogs on the A1/A1m each morning. I think it's another agri grey area.

[agrimog]

its not a grey area, if your mog is registerd as an agricultural machine, its not allowed on the motorway, if its an HGV, it is, and once registerd as an agri it is near immpossible to change it back, asif you ever would

[skyhuck]

My first guess would be the highway code.

253.

Prohibited vehicles.

Motorways

MUST NOT

be used by pedestrians, holders of

provisional motorcycle or car licences, riders of motorcycles under 50 cc, cyclists, horse

riders, certain slow-moving vehicles and those carrying oversized loads (except by

special permission), agricultural vehicles, and powered wheelchairs/powered mobility

scooters (see

Rules 36 to 46

inclusive)

Laws HA 1980 sects 16, 17 & sch 4, MT(E&W)R regs 3(d), 4 & 11, MT(E&W)(A)R, R(S)A

sects 7, 8 & sch 3, RTRA sects 17(2) & (3), & MT(S)R reg 10

 

I know a unimog counts as a fast tractor so is capable of going on the motorway as it can go faster than 20mph which if memory serves in the minimum speed for the motorway. I'm sure it's the taxation class that means its an agri vehicle and thus not able to use it. However if it was registered as an HGV it meet the construction and use regs to use the motorway.

 

My take on it was that it isn't allowed but i see at least on if not 2 Unimogs on the A1/A1m each morning. I think it's another agri grey area.

 

Most mog's are registered as Agricultural "machines" rather than tractors. You are correct regarding the two tractor speeds.

 

Before I bought my first mog (about 17 years ago) I rang the police and asked to speak to a traffic officer with good knowledge of Mway traffic law. A Sargent Forrest (yes I thought it was very fitting too ) rang me back. I asked him if an agg registered mog could go on the motorway, he looked in his books and told me that in order to go on the Mway the vehicle had to be over 50cc, be capable of doing more than 25mph on the flat under its own steam and be road worthy, i.e. comply with all the legal requirements for a road vehicles.

 

I have done tens of thousands of miles on the Mway in I'm mogs and have been pulled while on the Mway twice, on one of those occasions I was prosecuted for being over weight, nothing was said about me being on the Mway in a mog.

[Brushcutter]

Most mog's are registered as Agricultural "machines" rather than tractors. You are correct regarding the two tractor speeds.

 

Before I bought my first mog (about 17 years ago) I rang the police and asked to speak to a traffic officer with good knowledge of Mway traffic law. A Sargent Forrest (yes I thought it was very fitting too ) rang me back. I asked him if an agg registered mog could go on the motorway, he looked in his books and told me that in order to go on the Mway the vehicle had to be over 50cc, be capable of doing more than 25mph on the flat under its own steam and be road worthy, i.e. comply with all the legal requirements for a road vehicles.

 

I have done tens of thousands of miles on the Mway in I'm mogs and have been pulled while on the Mway twice, on one of those occasions I was prosecuted for being over weight, nothing was said about me being on the Mway in a mog.

 

Have a look at this. 11.1 Agricultural Machines.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/544635/v355x1-notes-about-tax-classes.pdf

 

 

Looks like ag vehicle covers lots of things including tractors. So a fast tractor is in that and still subject to rule 253 -about no agri vehicles, even though it meets the requirement of performance.

 

At least that is my interpretation of it. This is why i still think it's a little grey. Infact i think i've confused myself on the whole subject.

 

if you've been stopped and got away with it then it must be OK at least where you are. Around here the police are having a bit of a clamp down on ag vehicles, speeding, lights and tyres are all things people are getting pulled for.

 

Type can a mog go on the motorway into google and most of the posts are on arb talk about it.

[TIMON]

Anyway...... I'm selling the mog if anyone is interested! 🙂

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Anyway...... I'm selling the mog if anyone is interested! 🙂

 

Can it go on the motorway?

 

Hold on, there aren't any in Cornwall......

[Richard 1234]

Can it go on the motorway?

 

 

 

Hold on, there aren't any in Cornwall......

 

 

It would be OK here in Lincolnshire too as we don't have any motorways either!