towing???

[General Baxter]

bah trailer test is easy anyway

[strcnova]

Right my mate had exactly the same problem.
The age limit change two months before his birthday (age 28)so its caused him no end of grief. He looked into the trailer test and the cost was over £400 quid!!!. All he wanted to do was tow his mk2 Fiesta rally car with a volkswagen Passat estate. (oh yeah and his car weighed just over 840kgs!!)
In the end he is using a trailer from a friend and has a qualified driver that can tow with him and thats getting him round it.
He is also looking into doing a trailer test with the caravan club as it is about half the cost he was looking at.

[mikey14sr]

Originally Posted by National Trailer and Towing Association
A-frame for transportation is illegal. It is still OK for use to recover a vehicle to a place of safety.

Tell that to the hoards of motorhome drivers I've seen today with merc A class's dragged behind them, which was allready illegal on the continent .

In the end he is using a trailer from a friend and has a qualified driver that can tow with him and thats getting him round it.

So long as it's his mate driving it when the trailer's loaded, that's fine, because no-one (except armed forces maybe?) is allowed to pull a loaded trailer on L plates.

But yeah basicly if you want to be certain of being within the law do the trailer test. Or if you think you might fancy driving a truck in the future, do the rigid test (C) then the artic test (C+E), as passing the artic test automaticly gives you trailer entitlement in every lower class ('tis a little expensive though).

[General Baxter]

Tell that to the hoards of motorhome drivers I've seen today with merc A class's dragged behind them, which was allready illegal on the continent .

wrong, they are attched to the motorhome brakes, thus making it a 'trailer' not recovery

[*Dave*]

so what is my best option?

[mikey14sr]

Get shot of the corsa, buy something like a vectra estate (at least a 2l (1500kgs towing capacity), preferably a v6 (1800kgs towing capacity) and a trailer, and you should be able to drive that together just on a cat B licence provided you stay under both the GCW stamped on the VIN plate and 3500kgs in total.

If the GCW exceeds 3500kgs, or the GVW of the trailer exceeds the ULW of the tow-car, you'll have to go do the trailer test.