Can I tow a car trailer?

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Hello,

I can get my hands on a large car transporting trailer for £300 which weighs about 750KG. According to DVLA, I can tow a trailer up to 750KG, as long as the combined weight of my car and the trailer is not over 3500KG. I'm 18, so can I tow one?

Would I need to alter my insureance?
Cheers

-Pos
 
lol, I can have a total of 3500KG though (including car and trailer), I can tow a trailer up to 750KG unladen if I've read it correctly.

Do I need extra insurance to tow a trailer?
 
i thought you could tow up to 750 unbraked trailer, (not unladen!)? - what would be the point of towing a 750kg unladen trailer if it was the max...unless you just like towing empty trailers?
 
Category B vehicles may be coupled with a trailer up to 750kgs MAM (allowing a combined weight up to 4.25 tonnes MAM) or a trailer over 750kgs MAM provided the MAM of the trailer does not exceed the unladen weight of the towing vehicle, and the combination does not exceed 3.5 tonnes MAM.

So you can tow a trailer over 750kgs so long as the MAM of the trailer does not exceed the unladen weight of the towing vehicle. Therefore at a guess a 90's unladen weight is about 1.2 tonnes(don't go all pedantic I'm only guessing) so you can tow a trailer with a MAM of that weight. This assumes that the trailer is plated with all it's weights, capacities etc which many aren't. Fook me the more you read all these daft new rules the more confusing it gets. Thank fook it don't apply to me:)
 
The weights quoted for the trailer are for the maximum gross weight of the trialer not the actual weight of the trailer. So no you can't tow a trailer that weighs 750kg. The gross weight of the trailer will propably be shown on a plate on the trailer itself.

The unladen weight of a 90 is between 1487kg and 1603kg depending on which model & engine you get. The GVW or MAM of all 90's is 2400kg.

So the maximum GVW or Mam of any trailer can not exceed 1100kg. 1.1Tonnes
 
Thread hijack alert!
Back to basics, if i passed me test after 1997 then im gonna need another test before i can tow a trailer of any decent size?Ive got a rangie and a 110 and i pull quite heavy trailers.Im breaking the law?
 
for 110's the GVW or MAM is

Unlevelled suspension 3050kg
levelled suspension 2950kg

So the maximum mam of any Trailer you can pull defaults to 750kg

as the rules say any unbraked trailer upto 750kg or any trailer as long as the combined GVW or MAM doesn't exceed 3500kg therefore the 750kg limit comes into effect for 110's.
 
Yep even towing the empty trailer would make it illegal. As the MAM is 2.4tonnes So adding the drilling rig wouldn't make any differrence, to the penalty points and fine you'd get if you got a pull.
 
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