Greetings all!
My project is to find a 40 year+ historic ridget lorry with a box on it and park it up somewhere on the public highway and use it as storage.
It is free road tax for 40 year+ vehicles 
The truck need not have an engine gear box or anything ells. All it has to be is a shell on wheels with a log book
There are plenty of classic cars on feebay but no lorries
Located Manchester
If you’re going to present it as a road legal vehicle then wouldn’t you need an O license? Or at the very least insurance?
Any vehicle parked on the road has to have Tax, even if exempt, insurance and M O T, unless exempt. Good Luck.
If its on the public highway, it will need lights at night.
trucken:
If its on the public highway, it will need lights at night.
Very topical, I’ve just been reading today about a driver who’s said he’s had a £1000 fine for parking in a layby at night with no lights.
trucken:
If its on the public highway, it will need lights at night.
That’s simple, solar panel to recharge the batteries.
SWEDISH BLUE:
Any vehicle parked on the road has to have Tax, even if exempt, insurance and M O T, unless exempt. Good Luck.
Both MOT and tax can end at 40 years old.
gov.uk/historic-vehicles
WhiteTruckMan:
If you’re going to present it as a road legal vehicle then wouldn’t you need an O license? Or at the very least insurance?
Surely that’s a commercial thing? Private use = wouldn’t be required. (or e.g. showmans vehicle?)
When I drove…
Night’s for Edward Stobart Transport, the entire fleet was antique.
An assortment of European sheds was always on hand. Many with defects so give the tyres a good kicking if you buy from him.
ahoy truckers:
Greetings all!My project is to find a 40 year+ historic ridget lorry with a box on it and park it up somewhere on the public highway and use it as storage.
It is free road tax for 40 year+ vehicles
There are plenty of classic cars on feebay but no lorries
Located Manchester
Itll be a little bit like the TARDIS. Leave a truck full of goodies parked at the roadside every evening, and every morning youll have an empty one to refill.
Try here
Neighbour has a big luton van in his drive he uses for storage, but if you keep it on the road it still needs to be road legal and have insurance
Zac_A:
trucken:
If its on the public highway, it will need lights at night.Very topical, I’ve just been reading today about a driver who’s said he’s had a £1000 fine for parking in a layby at night with no lights.
wait what. the layby isn’t part of the carriageway is it
stu675:
SWEDISH BLUE:
Any vehicle parked on the road has to have Tax, even if exempt, insurance and M O T, unless exempt. Good Luck.Both MOT and tax can end at 40 years old.
gov.uk/historic-vehicles
You still have to notify DVLA to tell then it is being used/kept on the road, otherwise it will be classified as not taxed. In the days of the tax disc, my car had a tax disc showing Nil in payment.
ETS:
Zac_A:
trucken:
If its on the public highway, it will need lights at night.Very topical, I’ve just been reading today about a driver who’s said he’s had a £1000 fine for parking in a layby at night with no lights.
wait what. the layby isn’t part of the carriageway is it
Yes
stu675:
WhiteTruckMan:
If you’re going to present it as a road legal vehicle then wouldn’t you need an O license? Or at the very least insurance?Surely that’s a commercial thing? Private use = wouldn’t be required. (or e.g. showmans vehicle?)
OP hasn’t said if it’s for personal use, or maybe small business storage.
stu675:
ETS:
Zac_A:
trucken:
If its on the public highway, it will need lights at night.Very topical, I’ve just been reading today about a driver who’s said he’s had a £1000 fine for parking in a layby at night with no lights.
wait what. the layby isn’t part of the carriageway is it
Yes
I remember being told that if there is a physical divide, grass verge, raised kerb etc its not part of the highway so lights not required but if no divide then it is so they are needed. I know some one who puts rechargeable bicycle lights front and rear and he says he’s had no problems!!
SWEDISH BLUE:
stu675:
SWEDISH BLUE:
Any vehicle parked on the road has to have Tax, even if exempt, insurance and M O T, unless exempt. Good Luck.Both MOT and tax can end at 40 years old.
gov.uk/historic-vehiclesYou still have to notify DVLA to tell then it is being used/kept on the road, otherwise it will be classified as not taxed. In the days of the tax disc, my car had a tax disc showing Nil in payment.
Historic vehicles still have to be taxed in the same way as anything else if on the road, although the tax charge is nil you still have to go through the motions. Or can be sorned if not on the road, then it can be unroadworthy or uninsured. Either way DVLA send a reminder every year and if you don’t do one or the other you can be fined, just like if you don’t tax your modern vehicle. If it’s taxed/on the road it must be roadworthy and insured. DVLA know whether it’s insured and people have been nicked for having tax but no insurance as the computer picks it up.
Bernard
Zac_A:
trucken:
If its on the public highway, it will need lights at night.Very topical, I’ve just been reading today about a driver who’s said he’s had a £1000 fine for parking in a layby at night with no lights.
Think i met that bloke, he couldn’t get over how 2 faced the copper was, only the previous day that same one chalked a bay off for him at tesco 
all the places you can park at night why would you park in a layby or the services
albion1938:
SWEDISH BLUE:
DVLA know whether it’s insured and people have been nicked for having tax but no insurance as the computer picks it up.
Bernard
But has anyone been done yet for having no insurance while the vehicle is parked up?
SWEDISH BLUE:
stu675:
In the days of the tax disc, my car had a tax disc showing Nil in payment.
How did you qualify for nil payment?