7.5 ton lorry regs.

[colnerov]

This chap doesn't seem to have much trouble considering it's his blind side. Methinks he's done it before. Colin

 

[fizzy]

This is my favourite

 

[Woody.v8]

This is my favourite

I reckon he's done that before

 

[tom2207]

Amazing ,,, I couldnt do that ,,,if i had two crew , and 40 a acre car park .

 

[roofman]

Technically all true , but the road tax changes too , I used to down plate 10 tonners to 7.5 tonners as they were better sprung better braked and usually had more horses , again thats long gone.
dont forget the servicing by some one with all the paper work for oil and battery disposal and brake testing etc , I think they were talking about bunded parking , with restricted drain off , not sure , as I sold my 18 tonner last year , It was a mobile stage , so had a showmans exemption , but it was just getting harder and harder to keep on the right side of the law .. soon it will be 3.5 ton vans , if there is anything making money the government will tax it , and the motorist is an easy target. HGV's are even easier to squeeze cash out of so they do.
I still drive recovery trucks from time to time , and keep my licences in date but its not easy, but the regs are different for recovery hours too , that helps.

They have done the same with van mounted cherry pickers,it was possible to MOT exempt them using a loophole but that has now been sewn up and every time a cherry picker changers hands with a current exemption on it the new owner finds out his V5 must be updated to exclude this..current owners who don't sell can keep ticking the box every time they tax the van online that nothing has changed and retain this exemption.

 

[tom2207]

They have done the same with van mounted cherry pickers,it was possible to MOT exempt them using a loophole but that has now been sewn up and every time a cherry picker changers hands with a current exemption on it the new owner finds out his V5 must be updated to exclude this..current owners who don't sell can keep ticking the box every time they tax the van online that nothing has changed and retain this exemption.

yep , all the little ''dodges'' are getting sewn up, the fh16 i drive is plated to 72 tons as its a very spec recovery truck , but the tax is the same as a car , and tacho exempt . It wont last , at one point there was talk that fuel would go up and abolish road tax , so those who use their vehicles most would pay most through the increased fuel prices,,, but no ,,, fuel went up , and so did tax. When you need a lorry nothing else will do the job ,but a lot now work round needing a lorry . So the government will just move the tax to the next thing in line , vans will be next.

 

[8ob]

They have done the same with van mounted cherry pickers,it was possible to MOT exempt them using a loophole but that has now been sewn up and every time a cherry picker changers hands with a current exemption on it the new owner finds out his V5 must be updated to exclude this..current owners who don't sell can keep ticking the box every time they tax the van online that nothing has changed and retain this exemption.

Our cherry pickers are registered as agr machines so are still tax/mot exempt, that agr exemption can apply to any oddball creation as long as its for agr/hort/forestry.

Bob

 

[arther dailey]

they will be taxing trailers next ,ifors and the like

 

[tom2207]

they will be taxing trailers next ,ifors and the like

wouldnt be surprised , then they will need an mot / psv , like commercials .

 

[colnerov]

Hi, It's all in progress. A few years ago I was talking to owner of a local MOT and garage who was drafted onto a steering group looking at MOTing trailers one of the problems was that trailers had no individual chassis number or specific construction regulations, hence why the trailer SVAs came in as part of that process. They always do one step at a time so we don't notice it creeping up.

Colin