F10 Globetrotter:
On the V5 the taxation class in section 4 changes from HGV to Private HGV. You would then pay £165 pa for your years road tax.
Insurance wise, I insure mine with the NFU. They have always given me a very competetive rate. The policy has unlimited mileage and £1,000,000 public liability and buildings insurance included. These are the norm if your showing a vehicle.
With your truck, you still need an annual full HGV MOT test carried out at any VOSA HGV testing station. You can pull a trailer but the trailer goods won’t be insured and I don’t think the trailer will either, but not certain. As long as the vehicle is not used in conjunction with any business or hire or reward away you go. Also the plating certificate is still plated as the gross vehicle weight. Mine is plated at 38,000kgs. Remember don’t overload it.
You will also be tacho exempt, but your tacho will still need a calibration certificate as per normal. Your speed limiter will need to be working if one is fitted depending on vericle age. As far as VOSA are concerned when it goes for test it’s the same as any other HGV.
Hope some of this helps. Sorry if I’ve repeated what some of the other posters have written.
When I bought my coach in 2003 the Private HGV rate was £5 more than PLG, now it is £25 cheaper. Perhaps I should have bought a lorry.
Y111RDF:
It was to save worrying about a trailer for the test really.
You don’t have to, you can hire a loaded trailer at the test centre. It will be an ancient flatbed with concrete puddings on it. I’m not sure how much it costs, last I heard was £30 but that must be 6 or 7 years ago. Maybe £50 now?
at the Leicester test centre, the trailer hire is £25 +VAT, and it is a twin axle pile of ■■■, but it is a necessary evil if you have a 6x2 unit, if it is a 4x2 unit, you won’t need the trailer, they can put the machine on the back to get the required weight over the axle
‘L’ Electric vehicles 17 Category now deprecated - tests no longer available (since 2001) for this category. Vehicles now fit into category B1 or B.
Although it does not say, I would imagine that the truck you pictured would fit into a C catagory - possibly a C1 - as it would go by the plated weight
