Justme, thank you for a sensible reply on a rather cheeky question, could you expand on plated vs actual?
My current setup is a Skoda estate with a unbraked 750kgs trailer, could I actually buy a braked 2t IW or similar, have it plated down and have a useful amount of extra capacity? I haul firewood from the farm when the extra would be useful.
@Justme has the answer so this isn’t it, but I do know IW will issue a new plate with adjusted weight on if you send them your VIN
I got one a few years back. Bought a trailer who’s plate has rusted off but it had the number on it’s papers
I may have done that to replace one that 'fell off' a trailer that may not have been built before the regs about platingYou can even make one yourself.
Justme, thank you for a sensible reply on a rather cheeky question, could you expand on plated vs actual?
My current setup is a Skoda estate with a unbraked 750kgs trailer, could I actually buy a braked 2t IW or similar, have it plated down and have a useful amount of extra capacity? I haul firewood from the farm when the extra would be useful.
Is this the right info?..
I used to ponder what the optimum car/trailer combo might be to maximize payload. You're always going to hit one of the limits sooner or later but it would be interesting to see what you could potentially get up to.
A 3.5T transit.
Kerb weight is 1.5T (ish). (Same as a car)
Gives you a 2T payload.
No car/trailer combination is going to come close to that on a B licence, because you'll lose a couple of hundred kilos for the weight of the trailer, itself.
B1, you could have the above + a 750kg trailer, giving you maybe an extra 600kgs payload.
Cheers, it's academic now as I did the test but was weighing up options and, of course a van would win out but needed the civilian option of a car
A 3.5T transit.
Kerb weight is 1.5T (ish). (Same as a car)
Gives you a 2T payload.
No car/trailer combination is going to come close to that on a B licence, because you'll lose a couple of hundred kilos for the weight of the trailer, itself.
B1, you could have the above + a 750kg trailer, giving you maybe an extra 600kgs payload.
In that case (since you got the BE), my old transit was 3..2T Mgvw,
MAM was 5.2T.
Ex -AA, so rated to tow car transporter trailers.
I *think* that means it could pull a 3.7T (actual weight) trailer if the van was emptyish.
B1? did you mean C1?
On a B licence you can still have a 3500kg van & a 750 kg trailer.
Not seen any transit with 2 tonne payload.
Most vans are more like 800-1400kg payload.
B1? did you mean C1?
On a B licence you can still have a 3500kg van & a 750 kg trailer.
Not seen any transit with 2 tonne payload.
Most vans are more like 800-1400kg payload.
"B" licence? - the older one that allowed an extra 750kgs for a small trailer?
I might have got them the wrong way round.