The other day I passed a convoy of fair (showman’s) trucks on the motorway and 1 of them was an old ERF unit with a trailer loaded with dodgems and also towing another trailer which was twin axles done out as living accommodation and if that wasn’t enough there was also a small caravan tagged on the end. I’d certainly hate to reverse that
But is it legal to have all that pulled by one unit? Know idea what the length of it was.
i saw a very similiar rig in southampton last week. a unit pulling a mobile home size caravan with a small trailer behind it. i wondered if it was legal too. can we tow 2 trailers in this country?
I think the fairground folk are a bit of a law to themselves.
I’ve seen similar outfits and also see traffic cops just drive straight past them.
I thought that if the load exceeds 60ft long you are required by law to fit flashing beacons ?
Showmans’ Exemption, officer.
thought that if the load exceeds 60ft long you are required by law to fit flashing beacons ?
never heard of that rule before and i,ve certainly never been stopped for it
chaversdad:
thought that if the load exceeds 60ft long you are required by law to fit flashing beacons ?never heard of that rule before and i,ve certainly never been stopped for it
So why aren’t any of our ‘standard’ trailers any longer than 45ft then ?
Show people have an exemption, I don’t know the details of it but I am pretty sure that a lower speed limit is part of it.
We can take a 60 foot trailer without any beacons or any other special markings, provided that it is to carry an indivisible 60 foot + load. The long load only has to travel one way, you could take a load of palleted goods the other way. With the allowed 5 foot overhang, that means we can take a 65 foot load (of say steel beams). It wouldn’t need any notification to anyone either. I would mark it with either long load/wide load markers and light it, if I had the gear with me to do that. The load could be even longer than that, if you have a suitably designed trailer, so that the load could safely be put over the headboard, but it can’t extend more than 1 metre over the front of your unit. All quite legaly without any beacons, special markings or notifications.
Simon:
Show people have an exemption, I don’t know the details of it but I am pretty sure that a lower speed limit is part of it.
I think the speed limit is 30mph (on all roads).
It’s illegal to tow more than one trailer, although showmen are exempt.
Vince
Ah, not quite. I thought you could pull more than 1 trailer if the drawing vehicle came in at more than 11tonnes - think recovery truck drawing an artic.
Agricultural and Showmans vehicles are exempt, and possibly Recovery trucks
Bit ■■■■ Denby and Stan Robinson from Stafford are going to prove us wrong
Simon:
Show people have an exemption, I don’t know the details of it but I am pretty sure that a lower speed limit is part of it.We can take a 60 foot trailer without any beacons or any other special markings, provided that it is to carry an indivisible 60 foot + load. The long load only has to travel one way, you could take a load of palleted goods the other way. With the allowed 5 foot overhang, that means we can take a 65 foot load (of say steel beams). It wouldn’t need any notification to anyone either. I would mark it with either long load/wide load markers and light it, if I had the gear with me to do that. The load could be even longer than that, if you have a suitably designed trailer, so that the load could safely be put over the headboard, but it can’t extend more than 1 metre over the front of your unit. All quite legaly without any beacons, special markings or notifications.
I’ve seen 60’ trailers-they are legal in 3 states in the US. Trust me, you don’t want to drive one…