on my way home tonight i passed 2 trucks for the circus, or i believe to be as it was dark and the circus is coming to my area.
anyway one was a rigid pulling a standard sized trailer 13 metres or something on a olly, wagon and drag style.
but about 2 minutes later i passed another one but this time it was pulling 2 trailers that long.
is that even legal?
Yes.
Fairground vehicles are classed as locomotives and can pull more than one trailer.
oo never knew that.
bestbooties:
Yes.
Fairground vehicles are classed as locomotives and can pull more than one trailer.
correct… and are subject to specific speed limits.
Can anybody remember years ago in the TRUCK magazine there was a article about a firm that were using DAF ballast tractors pulling two trailers. I think they were used close to a dock area but were used on public roads. From what I can remember it was classed and taxed as a locomotive and speed limited to 20mph. 
I think it was Denby with the Daf ballast tractor, they went on to develop a prototype for a tractor unit and two trailers too.
Big Bear:
Can anybody remember years ago in the TRUCK magazine there was a article about a firm that were using DAF ballast tractors pulling two trailers. I think they were used close to a dock area but were used on public roads. From what I can remember it was classed and taxed as a locomotive and speed limited to 20mph.
There were several of these running around Teesport and Denby ran one to deliver trailers to the ports. In Teesport there was a specialist police unit set up to administer them. I remember the locos operated by Les Harriman. Bulkhaul and TDG as well as a few others.
They were a ballasted tractor unit pulling a converter dolly with a semi trailer hung on the back. It was done as a stop gap to take heavy tanks and containers to the ports when the 44 tonne intermodal rules only allowed for 6 axle trucks to run to a railhead…
I worked for a German company at the time and we ran 6 wheel MAN 410 Roadhaus. We were also Channel Tunnel trained and were able to self certify & seal loads bound for Europe without waiting for the British Rail inspector gadgie.
How silly was it that I could load 26 tonnes in Seal Sands and deliver it direct to Trafford Park or Willesden, but could not drop it in Hull or Teesport?
Thanks for the feed back Did they pull two trailers 
passed the trucks again today during my class 1 test, sitting at ingleston showground, saw the trucks sitting there,
ballasted truck with 2 trailers sitting right at the end.
Big Bear:
Thanks for the feed back
Well sort of, the locomotives pulled a short trailer with a ringfeder type coupling, this convertor trailer (dolly is fitted with a fifth wheel with a standard artic coupled to that.
But the showmans trailers definately do pull 2 trailers. You will often see an artic with a living van hung behind.
Thanks to Diesel Dave. I learnt something about ADR today.
Going back to my post about the locomotives around the dock area. I learnt that they are prohibited from carrying dangerous goods while pulling 2 trailers.
This would have put the kybosh on ■■■■ Denby and Stan Robinson with the LHV they developed. It could never have been used on ADR work
I wonder if Ruth Kelly actually went for a ride in one to see for her self how well they follow before giving them the big no no?
Driveroneuk:
I wonder if Ruth Kelly actually went for a ride in one to see for her self how well they follow before giving them the big no no?
She said that she would need a lot of persuasion, well someone must have been persuading her with the ugly stick 
Driveroneuk:
I wonder if Ruth Kelly actually went for a ride in one to see for her self how well they follow before giving them the big no no?
i think youve answered your own question tbh.
i dont even think shes ever been in a lorry let alone one that good drivers owuld be able to drive and make it look like a doddle.
Then there’s “A Trains”
and “B Trains”
Gogzy mate, where did you see this? I saw onr today at the Newbridge roundabout…did so many ‘double-takes’ that I just about wrote off my motor 
. Very impressive though Ive gotta say!
Paul.
i saw them heading towards dunfermline on the m90. though this was late at night so all i saw was the flashing beacon on the roofs. then the trailers as it passed.
I used to drive one of these contraptions for Les Harriman, then for TDG, from ICI Wilton to Tees dock around 8 times a day. It drove great in a straight line forwards, reversing it took about a day to learn. If you were used to driving artics, then you had to switch your brain around and steer looking at the dolly under the trailer
Ah the good old days,
Mick
I think showman are limited to 100 ft long and 2 trailers.