Hi,
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what a B-group licence holder can tow, particularly as the goal posts are able to move.
I have a Group B+E licence, so I know that the limit of any trailer I can tow is 3500kg MGW, which means if it has a ball hitch I can tow it, so the ONLY limit is the towing capacity of my car. Anything over 3500kg MGW shouldn't have a ball hitch, and if it has a ring-hitch I wouldn't want to tow it anyway, whatever it weighed.
Wouldn't it be nice if something similar could be applied to Group B only licence holders? So what would be sensible. 1000kg MGW?
Thats probably more generous than the present system allows (car ULW > trailer MGW). But does it exclude too many caravans? 1500kg MGW? Is that too much? It will include a lot of caravans, but of course be controlled by the tow car's ULW. How about making the trailer's MGW to be no more than the car's ULW, and forget the 3500kg limit for combined MGWs. That way, if you want to tow a heavy trailer, you can, but it will cost you ...... a Discovery (2000kg ULW) could tow a 2000kg MGW trailer, well below the maker's towing limit of 3500kg. (At present, a Group B only is limited to towing less than 1000kg with a Discovery).
I realise that all this is controlled by the EU, so what do our Continental cousins do. Doh! Of course they all drive campercars on the mainland.
But here in UK, it would help if the caravan manufacturers incuded the MGW in the model name, rather than its length.
602
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what a B-group licence holder can tow, particularly as the goal posts are able to move.
I have a Group B+E licence, so I know that the limit of any trailer I can tow is 3500kg MGW, which means if it has a ball hitch I can tow it, so the ONLY limit is the towing capacity of my car. Anything over 3500kg MGW shouldn't have a ball hitch, and if it has a ring-hitch I wouldn't want to tow it anyway, whatever it weighed.
Wouldn't it be nice if something similar could be applied to Group B only licence holders? So what would be sensible. 1000kg MGW?
Thats probably more generous than the present system allows (car ULW > trailer MGW). But does it exclude too many caravans? 1500kg MGW? Is that too much? It will include a lot of caravans, but of course be controlled by the tow car's ULW. How about making the trailer's MGW to be no more than the car's ULW, and forget the 3500kg limit for combined MGWs. That way, if you want to tow a heavy trailer, you can, but it will cost you ...... a Discovery (2000kg ULW) could tow a 2000kg MGW trailer, well below the maker's towing limit of 3500kg. (At present, a Group B only is limited to towing less than 1000kg with a Discovery).
I realise that all this is controlled by the EU, so what do our Continental cousins do. Doh! Of course they all drive campercars on the mainland.
But here in UK, it would help if the caravan manufacturers incuded the MGW in the model name, rather than its length.
602
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