Agricultural tractors

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Hi all

I have a few questions about tractors and road safety, I though someone might be able able to help please

1: are tractors obligated just like lorries not to leave mud or debris on the road?
2: do you need a CPC and/or a licence to drive one on the road?
3: are they paying road tax ?
4: are they supposing to have a a flashing orange light when on the road
5: are they insured ?
6: are they using cheap red diesel while using public roads?

Thanks :slight_smile:
John

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L’amiral:
Hi all

I have a few questions about tractors and road safety, I though someone might be able able to help please

1: are tractors obligated just like lorries not to leave mud or debris on the road?
2: do you need a CPC and/or a licence to drive one on the road?
3: are they paying road tax ?
4: are they supposing to have a a flashing orange light when on the road
5: are they insured ?
6: are they using cheap red diesel while using public roads?

Thanks :slight_smile:
John

Correct
No cpc, but you do need a licence
They need to be taxed, but it’s free
Only if on a dual carriageway
They should be
yes

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L’amiral:
Hi all

I have a few questions about tractors and road safety, I though someone might be able able to help please

1: are tractors obligated just like lorries not to leave mud or debris on the road? yes
2: do you need a CPC and/or a licence to drive one on the road? No, but (assuming the driver is old enough) they should have ‘L’ plates unless they have passed their tractor or car test
3: are they paying road tax ? Agricultural tractors had to display discs but they were FOC
4: are they supposing to have a a flashing orange light when on the road only compulsory on dual carriageways
5: are they insured ? absolutely, considering costs of a modern tractor is pretty much directly comparable to an Artic unit and much of the machinery way more than an artic trailer, insurance is a given. The cost of a modern combine, self propelled forager or sprayer would make a haulier’s bean counter have a fit
6: are they using cheap red diesel while using public roads? if they are engaged in agricultural activity then yes

Thanks :slight_smile:
John

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L’amiral:
Hi all

I have a few questions about tractors and road safety, I though someone might be able able to help please

1: are tractors obligated just like lorries not to leave mud or debris on the road?
2: do you need a CPC and/or a licence to drive one on the road?
3: are they paying road tax ?
4: are they supposing to have a a flashing orange light when on the road
5: are they insured ?
6: are they using cheap red diesel while using public roads?

Thanks :slight_smile:
John

Try tractornet ,tractor and driver or tratoring for your answers buddy :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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L’amiral:
Hi all

I have a few questions about tractors and road safety, I though someone might be able able to help please

1: are tractors obligated just like lorries not to leave mud or debris on the road?
2: do you need a CPC and/or a licence to drive one on the road?
3: are they paying road tax ?
4: are they supposing to have a a flashing orange light when on the road
5: are they insured ?
6: are they using cheap red diesel while using public roads?

Thanks :slight_smile:
John

  1. Yes of course! :laughing:
  2. No CPC and no licence unless under the age of 17 (category f, can be taken at the age of 16). You can drive them on a car licence but a lot of places require you to take a proficiency test for insurance purposes.
  3. No, its free but still have to report in each year like a historic vehicle.
  4. Technically yes but there is no law to say so as far as I can remember, but good practice to have one on.
  5. Yes, just like any other vehicle.
  6. Yes if doing own agricultural work, if doing work for others legally are meant to run on white.
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I have no interest in tractors, lambing or the farming industry :slight_smile: but I have to share the road with many of them

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You do see quite a lot spreading ■■■■ on the road, with an old broken number plate swinging from chains on the dirty old trailer with no working lights :laughing:

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I think tractors should be regulated like lorries. The damages caused by tractors to our roads are tremendous and I have witnessed hundreds ! I have seen diesel spillages from the road to a field and the local authorities were incapable to trace the tractor. Roads covered in mud, tractors speeding in villages, on their phones, 2 of them sat on one seat, kids bouncing in the cab, etc etc. if they were feeling a threat from the law enforcement perhaps it wouldn’t happen. It’s not like if you can’t see inside their cab either.

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fwi.co.uk/articles/24/07/201 … -crash.htm

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They shouldnt be aloud a the a1 i do know that :imp: :imp:

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It’s ok once UKIP come to power and Europe won’t be paying for their empty fields subsidies, they might have plenty of time to go on a course.

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L’amiral:
I think tractors should be regulated like lorries. The damages caused by tractors to our roads are tremendous and I have witnessed hundreds ! I have seen diesel spillages from the road to a field and the local authorities were incapable to trace the tractor. Roads covered in mud, tractors speeding in villages, on their phones, 2 of them sat on one seat, kids bouncing in the cab, etc etc. if they were feeling a threat from the law enforcement perhaps it wouldn’t happen. It’s not like if you can’t see inside their cab either.

thats why the police need to use a tractor unit to catch all the lorry drivers doing similar , and last i knew it was a fairly heavily regulated profession :laughing:

i picked up a nice big 16" auger from a drill yesterday off a roundabout , fell from a truck ,hit a car and he carried on with the car in hot pursuit tooting its horn to try and get his attention

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I live at the end of a single track road not far away from Spurn Point, (not “Sperm Point” as I got in a text last week :grimacing: ), and all the local farmers are a splendid bunch. Without fail, they pull over to let you past in your car, and they always slow down when they come by my house front. And you don’t realise how big those tracked tractors are until you get close up :open_mouth: .

Best of all though, we’re not on a gritting route so when it snows, them good ole boys come out with their loading shovels and clear the roads for us.

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Yawn,not this old chestnut again :unamused:

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6. Yes if doing own agricultural work, if doing work for others legally are meant to run on white.[/quote]
There’s not an Agri Contractor in the country running on Derv :exclamation: :exclamation: :confused:

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Do farmers still plead poverty to delivery drivers? Conveniently forgetting the various new bits of kit around the farm such as combine harvesters, sileage trailers, wifes’ Range Rover for towing Dobbins 'box to gymkhanas…

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Cotswoldcrunch:
Do farmers still plead poverty to delivery drivers? Conveniently forgetting the various new bits of kit around the farm such as combine harvesters, sileage trailers, wifes’ Range Rover for towing Dobbins 'box to gymkhanas…

As my cousin down in Southampton says in her local accent “you never see a farmer on a boike”.

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They are supposed to have an orange flashing light when towing anything. Mostly they are not bothered by the police, because the police in general haven’t a clue to what laws applies to agricultural tractors.

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Dave the Renegade:
They are supposed to have an orange flashing light when towing anything. Mostly they are not bothered by the police, because the police in general haven’t a clue to what laws applies to agricultural tractors.

Tractors which are incapable by design of exceeding 25mph, may be fitted with a flashing or rotating amber warning beacon, which may be used where necessary to warn other traffic.
If such a tractor is used on an unrestricted (i.e. 70mph national speed limit) dual carriageway, other than crossing it by the quickest manner practicable, an amber beacon must be fitted and must be kept on.
Any amber warning beacon fitted, whether voluntarily fitted or required by regulation, must be fitted in compliance with the requirements of Schedule 16 of RVLR. Schedule 16 requires the centre of the lamp to be not less than 1200 mm above the ground, and the light to be visible from at least one beacon (but not necessarily the same beacon) from any point at a reasonable distance from the vehicle (i.e. through a full 360ï‚°).

towing :question: :question:

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Dave the Renegade:
They are supposed to have an orange flashing light when towing anything. Mostly they are not bothered by the police, because the police in general haven’t a clue to what laws applies to agricultural tractors.

LOL. It would seem that it ain’t just the police, Dave. :wink: