Implications Of Going Over 3500kg (1 Viewer)

[Feltwell]

Back to the original question - for me at least the implications of going over 3.5t have been £70 or so a year off my road tax and no insurance increase! What a nonsense.

The main problem seems to be for those who haven't got the C1 licence, generally through age, either too young or too old (and not taken the relevant medical). Horsey-types seem to be quite badly affected as many horse boxes are over 3.5t - the younger riders, in order to drive them, have to take LGV training & test. I guess that's why you see more small van-based horse boxes on the road now.

Have any motorhome drivers on here had to that the test to get C1? What a pain - the rules around digital tachograph use are complex, having to learn all that in order to take a test to drive a vehicle that has no tacho fitted! LGV drivers - what was Class 1 - have to take so many hours of re-training every 5 years I understand in order to retain their licence, I don't believe this applies though if you're not carrying goods for resale.

 

[Feltwell]

As an aside - be careful if you ever need to send your licence off that they keep the C1 entitlement on it. That happened to my Dad some years ago, he sent his off for change of address and they took the C1 off. It was only because he noticed & complained that they added it back on.

Alas now, as an insulin-using diabetic, they have taken it off him anyway. Another nonsense - I can't see how driving a 3.5t MH is less dangerous than driving a 4t MH for any medical condition.

 

[peterc10]

Unladen weight is NOT mass in running order.
Unladen is unladen. No water, no gas, no driver, no nothing, except perhaps fuel in the tank.
Mass in running order is usually quoted with a nominal driver weight, gas on board, fuel in the tank and water on board. The amounts vary by manufacturer.
Therefore, there might be more motorhomes that slip into those sub-3050kg speed limits than you think.

It ain't as simple as that. Have a look at the definition I got from the Government's website (Post No 38) as to what they say it means. Part of it says

It includes the body and all parts normally used with the vehicle or trailer when it’s used on a road.

That could be taken to be a lot more than just the weight from the converters. I reckon my batteries, solar panels, safe and many other things would be included in that definition. I normally use them all when my motorhome is on the road.

The whole thing is daft.

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[Judge Mental]

X250 have a speed limiter option as at my first service last year on my 2013 maxi I was asked if I wanted it switched on....

 

[Ken and Marion]

The mass in service is noted on the V5 for my van. 2950 kg.