cooper1203:
Franglais:
True, there seems no plans at the moment to drop anything else, just the licence requirement.
But if 7.5t vehicles become more popular, then wont the operators start saying "they aren
t real trucks, you dont need a special licence, so why an O-licence?" or "I can hire one of these on my car licence, I can have tons of my gear in it,why shoudn
t I carry someone else`s?"
Why let someone drive one without a special licence, to keep costs down, but still expect them to pay for DCPC costs?Sorry i disagree. I looked into getting myself a beaver tail transporter over 3.5 tonnes was told i didnt need an o licence or cpc unless i was carrying out paid work. I was getting it for the sole purpose of transporting my own classic cars so no paid work so no cpc or o licence. As far as i know there isnt a single operator that does paid work that has said that isnt fair and tried to run a fleet of transporters without the appropriate bits of paper
There may not be a single LEGITIMATE operator. I don’t think DVSA would agree with your comments though.