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I love speed :-P - 13/12/06 at 08:42 PM

Hi,

I have looked on the world wide wait and i cant find anything and you lot know everything so what is the longest length you can tow (i.e. length of car and trailer) if you past your test before 1997?

Thanks

Phil M

[Edited on 13/12/2006 by I love speed :-P]

I love speed :-P - 13/12/06 at 08:49 PM

Also i have been told to add, does it make a difference if its a motorhome?

Phil M

[Edited on 13/12/2006 by I love speed :-P]

RazMan - 13/12/06 at 08:58 PM

I have towed a 20ft trailer with a 20ft van without incident (legal or otherwise )

Peteff - 13/12/06 at 08:58 PM

It doesn't matter when you "pasted" your test as the new laws cover everyone. There are some touring caravans, particularly Hobby, the German ones, which fall foul of the law when towed on the road as they are too long and, when coupled with a vehicle heavy enough to tow them legally, need a HGV licence. If it's a motorhome it's not a trailer, a caravan is still a trailer. It all changed when some idiot ran onto a trainline while texting his bird with a car on a trailer behind a Disco. You can tow anything with anything till you get caught though





[Edited on 13/12/06 by Peteff]

Confused but excited. - 13/12/06 at 09:02 PM

Pasted your test to what?

Big Stu - 13/12/06 at 09:15 PM

If you passed your test after 97 you are limited to 750Kg, unless you sit a trailer test, well thats what I have been told, maybe rubish.

omega 24 v6 - 13/12/06 at 09:42 PM

There is a max combination length for goods vehicles i.e. artics and wagon and drags. I suspect that the van/trailer combination is more likely to be regulated by the MAM of the combination.

I found this site which IMHO seems to suggest that the maximum combination length of vehicle and trailer is 18 metres.

Go to the third search down on this page.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=max+vehicle+combination+lengths+construction+and+use&btnG=Google+Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7Ccount ryGB

[Edited on 13/12/06 by omega 24 v6]

[Edited on 13/12/06 by omega 24 v6]

Danozeman - 13/12/06 at 10:15 PM

Glider trailers are long how do they get on??

omega 24 v6 - 13/12/06 at 10:24 PM

quote:

Glider trailers are long how do they get on??


They're site is quoting 18mtrs as well. That a hell of a length to control if it's of any kind of weight.

I love speed :-P - 14/12/06 at 10:15 AM

thanks everybody, i new you would have the answer

Thank you

Phil M

[Edited on 14/12/2006 by I love speed :-P]

Danozeman - 14/12/06 at 10:57 AM

I once say a nissan micra towing a glider trailer. Madness................