Tractor units.

[repton]

ROG:
Was it dowplated to under 7.5 tonnes (so it can be driven on a pre 97 car licence) with the fifth wheel covered (if that had owt to do with it?) and taxed as a private vehicle

As long as the unit actually weighs less than 7500kg (including fuel and driver/passenger) there’s nothing stopping you downplating it to that and driving it on the C1 licence that anyone who passed their car test before 1997 got thrown in for free. You don’t need to cover/remove the fifth wheel unless you want to but obviously if the unit has a plated weight as low as 7500kg then you’re not actually in practice going to be able to legally tow any normal semi-trailer with it as even an empty trailer will put enough weight on the pin to take the gross weight of the unit over 7500kg.

Paul

[dieseldave]

Coffeeholic:

dieseldave:
IIRC, there was something to do with plated weights and vehicle taxation, but that’s a completely different topic to the OP’s question, so I wouldn’t wish to confuse the issue.

It was something to do with no 5th wheel making it an incomplete vehicle which could therefore be driven on an ordinary, i.e. car not truck, licence. Doesn’t apply any more.

Thanks for that Coffeeholic, I thought it was something from the past, but I didn’t know they’d actually got rid of it.

Anyway, removing the fifth wheel was nothing to do with the original question, so I didn’t want to cause any confusion.

[jessicas_dad]

Harry Monk:
Same [zb], different year!

are you hoping for a change.

[allikat]

jessicas dad:

Harry Monk:
Same [zb], different year!

are you hoping for a change.

Oh this year there will be a change alright, the [zb] will be deeper, smellier, and we’ll be in it up to our necks.

[8wheels]

What about a Chinese 6? there’s none on that pic.

Can I drive one but only if it’s registered in China and been driven here by me?