Afternoon Gents, some advice please.
If you are a haulier who rents out trailers to subbies, and these trailers are rented yourselves from a trailer rental company, do these have to be listed on your o licence at your operating centre??
Also, if you are an owner driver who does traction work, say on ferry trailers, but you never take one of the trailers back to your operating centre, do this have to be listed on your o licence?
Regards
Answer to first question is YES.you need to have a depot capable of parking said amount of trailers at your operating centre. whether you park them there or not.
Question 2 you can only operate said amount of vehicles as your operator licence provides, whether you take them back to your depot or not, but re-read the first question.
AaronR:
If you are a haulier who rents out trailers to subbies, and these trailers are rented yourselves from a trailer rental company
This part worries me, as Id be checking the Ts & C`s of the original hire agreement if its allowed you to sub out the trailers without permission from the hire Co
peirre:
AaronR:
If you are a haulier who rents out trailers to subbies, and these trailers are rented yourselves from a trailer rental companyThis part worries me, as I
d be checking the Ts & C`s of the original hire agreement if its allowed you to sub out the trailers without permission from the hire Co
There are many trailers on the road that may be leased or hired.
I believe there was also a recent case that negates the need for a margin on an operator licence if they occasionally pull “ferry trailers.”
Exemptions include: vehicles being used for international haulage by operators established in other EU Member States.
truckyboy:
Answer to first question is YES.you need to have a depot capable of parking said amount of trailers at your operating centre. whether you park them there or not.Question 2 you can only operate said amount of vehicles as your operator licence provides, whether you take them back to your depot or not, but re-read the first question.
I’ve always been lead to believe that this Is correct…
Bit of a grey area as I believe quite a few trailer hire places don’t have an o-licence at all as with, for example, manufacturers that own trailers but hire in traction and farmers that have them all over a yard as storage. It becomes more problematic if you have an o-licence with trailers on it. You can have them for a month on hire without listing on the licence in any case and to be honest if the trailers don’t actually belong to you I wouldn’t think there’s too much they can do as dozens of trailers get laid up in any old yard all the time.
Remember too there’s no financial requirement for trailers on an o-licence.