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[Terry]

I think you're getting tied up with the weights Mr K.
The empty weight for the whole rig is he told me 2700 kgs, which puts him in tacho territory
(more than 2.5 tonnes). 6500 kgs is the permissable GTW not what it actually weighs in at.
Its a lightweight trailer built for volume more that weight carrying.

Done (Thanx) ME, forgot I had put my location in.
Have fun
Terry

[knighty1981]

well thats a bit different from "Trailer is rated at 700 kgs max.whole rig is GTW 6500 kgs"

to me that read the max. load of the trailer was 700kg, which is why i was asking if it was right

[Terry]

Sorry for the confusion,
Have fun
Terry

[geminivehicles]

i always thought anything with a fifth wheel coupling was class one

[Terry]

Don't know about the licence , but I asked about the 5th wheel and its one of those American 'bolt in the back of your pick-up truck', jobbies. Same as a normal one to look at but just scaled down.
Apparently the Transit started life as a tipper & they took off the tipping body, moved the rear axle forward & shortened the propshaft a re-inforcing plate across the top of the chassis rails, on to which they bolted the 5th wheel and Robert's your Dad's brother.

[AlanN]

Is this not a Ford SVO conversion or another company

[MATTBLACKHICUBE]

i always thought anything with a fifth wheel coupling was class one

We have an exhibition trailer place down the road from me that uses Ivecos and Sprinters with fifth wheel attachments, I couldn't get a job there because I only have a class 2 license, and the rigs require a class 1 license. I took this up with the ministry and they confirmed this.

[sixwheelphil]

Now then, miniartics. Ask anybody connected to them and you get one answer, "can't help you, it's a Grey area". Several years ago I did get a man in the local test station to tell me you need to be 18 with a full car licence to drive them. Pre licence law's changing that is. Quite how anybody manages to get these things on the road is quite beyond me, at least 4 companies involved with the manufacture of the things and a technical chap at Swansea all told me the same, "It's a Grey area". It really is a bang your head against a brick wall situation. I'm thinking we've been here before with this, who's going to be the one to root it out?.