Towing a caravan?

Having had this issue myself, I have looked into it quite a lot a while back.
There didn't seem to be anything suggesting there was anything alse than the 2 different types of licence, depending on when you passed.

Therefore:

You can drive any vehicle up to and including a gross weight of 3.5 tonnes - PLUS a trailer not exceeding 750kg.

OR

A vehicle and trailer combination not exceeding 3.5 tonnes.

The combination has to meed varying standards, maximums and all sorts else but that's the basics...

Have a look on the caravan club's website. They've got a section on it that's very helpful.

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by BanditPat

:O 115 quid to do a car and trailer test. what a rip off

And that's if you know how to tow a trailer, otherwise you'll have to shell out a couple £100 on training too, and doon't forget the trailer rental on top of that (unless you have a mate who has a trailer as below and will tow it to the testing/training centre and back for you), the test is done with a twin axle horse box.

Which you cannot go and pick up from a rental shop unless you have the license for it. I would think most training places will go with you to pick it up though.

Here's my thread about it a while ago
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=146718

[yorkie_chris]

So if I passed my car test say yesterday morning... could I drive a 3.5 tonner?

Looking at the page bibio posted it looks like that if my cars unladen weight was 1350kg with a kerbside of weight of about 1800kg then I could tow a caravan that weighed up to 1350kg, Or have a misinterpreted it? I read something on a caravan site then that seemed to support this and a decent sized caravan doesent seem to weigh a ton or much over whicih is good good.

Originally Posted by 2hys

when i passed my car test in 1999 i got B and B1 so i could drive up to 3.5 (sprinter vans), i did once tow a hired car transporter trailer before i got my C+E , the bloke chceked my licence relising i didn't have the +E bit at the time, said that as long as the combined weight did not execed 3.5t then i would be ok (mk3 camels ear, one ton trailer + striped out mini) dont think it was right all as trailer must not exceed 750 kg!

I thought B1 was a quad or a trike with a max unladen weight of 550kg?

Originally Posted by BanditPat

I thought B1 was a quad or a trike with a max unladen weight of 550kg?

so it is! i thought it was the 3.5 limit, you learn something everyday. i know new licences only have B on them, yes YC you can drive up 2 a 3.5t after you pass your test.