Towing Question

[Matt-Rallye]

You can have 3500kg gross, thats trailer, load and tow vehicle.

for example my landy weighs in on the weighbridge at work at 2.2t, the trailer weighs 800kgs.. so picking up a bare shell from wolverhampton i was very borderline on my legal side!

Best bet is to just do a trailer test and be completely legal dude. im doing mine soon.

That is wrong mate!

What your Disco actually weighs is inconsequential in this situation.
The Max Gross Weight / MAM of the disco is 2700kg (ish, I CBA to find the right number) so anyone with a post 1997 licence only could only use a disco to tow a maximum of 800kg!

Again what your trailer actually weighs is largely inconsequential. I've seen your trailer and assume it has a MAM of about 3500kg (so a max load of 2700kg) but even if it was empty you'd be overweight.

2700kg MAM Disco + 3500kg MAM trailer = 6200kg Gross Train Weight.
This is even if the trailer is empty and the whole rig only actually weighs 3000kg.
And IIRC VOSA issue fines on what % you are overweight and the above makes you nearly 80% overweight.
If the Police catch you it's driving otherwise in accordance with your license which is fine, points and having your car seized as well as the insurance company raping you for the next 5 years.

In the situation you describe above you could down plate the car and trailer and still be legal though.






A 1 day trailer course and test (at about £300) for those of us that already tow would probably be less than a VOSA fine.

What it actually weighs is completely relevant you prune! If i got stopped by Vosa it makes no odds what its plated too! only matters that its under or overweight for my licence entitlements. As we have the only public weighbridge in hereford its our duty to weigh vehicles guided here by vosa for testing and im well aware of the procedures. 

They CANNOT stop you at the side of the road and tell you you are overweight, it has to be proved. Hence why i weighed my truck & trailer before setting off. 99.9% of joe public doesn't have access to a weighbridge like i do.