not allowed to tow yet

[flissiebell]

hi all i only passed my driving test a couple of yrs ago and im hoping to take out our foldout camper, where can i get a licence to tow solo plz help

flissie

 

[Steve_1]

You don't need any special licence.

I thought I was in this sitution too, but when I looked into it I found that you are allowed to tow an un-braked trailer up to 750KG and a braked trailer up to 100% of your cars kerbweight providing the total weight of car + trailer does not exceed 3500KG

 

[rayc]

Melissa, I'm sure you can already tow with the licence you have. To check the details see the Home page / towing law / licences for details of your entitlement.

 

[Lutz]

You can find official information about what you may or may not tow without a special B+E licence on the following website:

http://www.dvla.gov.uk/drivers/vehicle_cat_desc.htm#Cars
In short, so long as car plus trailer together don't weigh more than 3500kg and the maximum permissible weight of the trailer does not exceed the kerbweight of the car, you don't need to pass another test.

 

[flissiebell]

Hi ty i can tow but nothing bigger than a shoe box tbh as my licence wont cover me 4 nething bigger, i hav to do a test. I will check out the dvla n see where i go from there

ty again

Flissie

 

[Lutz]

I don't know where you get the idea from that you can only tow a shoe box unless you pass the test for a B&E licence. You may now drive a car/caravan combination weighing up to 3500kg so long as the caravan doesn't weigh more than the kerbweight of the car. Assuming an average car sort of car with a kerbweight of about 1200kg and fully loaded about 1650kg, you could legally tow a decent sized caravan of up to 1200kg and still meet both criteria. If you stick to the recommended 85% of the car's kerbweight as your limit rather than the legal maximum, the caravan would weigh 1020kg and you'd have an even bigger margin.