Do you mean me wrote,
It seems they have, thankfully, closed this loophole. Just re-checked the regs on the Direct.gov site and they have brought the weight limits back in. A couple of years back they dropped them and said that a motorhome was only limited by a maximum size it could be. There are though, still people out there who have argued the case that what they did last year was legal and how can it be illegal to do it now.
I quite believe there are people arguing the case and carrying on with what they did before until they might get pulled and can make a case of it, it would be a very interesting court case to listen to. Because its in one of those grey areas there are always conflicting answers to the problem by the different authorities involved, VOSA says one thing, the Police another, the Licensing Authority sticks to weights for the license category and those with the vehicles claim something else. Can readers remember the problems in different parts of the country with the Four and a half hour rule being broken up to take Fifteen minute breaks instead of a full Fourty Five, it caused a lot of confusion and blokes were getting done in some areas until it was sorted out.
I would say though the easiest answer is to read the plate for any vehicle, and a motorhome shouldn’t be exempt one of those, to see what legal weight it is and therefore the license required to drive it with or without a trailer. Cheers Franky.
