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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: creighton foyle on May 05, 2010, 09:59:32 pm

Title: are you towing legally ?
Post by: creighton foyle on May 05, 2010, 09:59:32 pm

just watched an episode of motorway cops and they pulled over a landrover towing a car trailer (loaded) and if i understood correctly any vehicle towing a trailer in the course of a business with a train weight that exceeds 3.5t then the towing vehicle should have a tachograph. i may have misunderstood and am waiting to be corrected.

Title: Re: are you towing legally ?
Post by: Mike Halliday on May 05, 2010, 10:29:52 pm

unless you only operate within 50k of your home address, then you are exampt

Title: Re: are you towing legally ?
Post by: Mike Halliday on May 05, 2010, 10:39:25 pm

here it is off the goverment site,,,,


Vehicles with a GVW of below 7.5 tonnes carrying material or equipment for the driver’s use in the course of his work within a 50km radius of the vehicle’s normal base, where driving is not the driver’s main work activity.