Could a lorry be an Agriculutral vehicle?

Those trucks are known as volumetric batching plant or mobile batching plant.

Lorries as tractors:

You most certainly can run lorries as tractors but it can be tricky to get the application right.

From the outset, I have never done it myself. The Zetros truck I use was registered as a tractor in Germany from brand new. I brought it in to the country before Brexit and had no problem transferring that status once registered in the U.K..
However, I had looked into it all before I found my truck and had some very helpful and excellent advice from a woman named Tina at DVLA.
You will need lots of photographic evidence to support your application and unfortunately you will have to do all the work to your truck before you apply. They will want to see agricultural tyres on it and a close up of the tyre size and if it’s got anything agricultural sounding printed on the tyres then it’s all good. They like to see pictures of the different types of equipment you could mount on your truck. I intended to send library pics of muck spreaders, sprayers etc as well as a spreader body. You’ll need to fit an approved hitch for agricultural trailers. I also found pics of the same model of truck with a rear 3 point linkage although mine was never fitted with one. If you’re intending pulling trailers then they will want to know what type and what you will be carrying. It would be wise to only list agricultural produce .
The truck will have to be limited to 40 mph and you’ll need to provide evidence that electronic limiters have been installed.
Make sure you apply to convert to an agricultural tractor, NOT an agricultural machine. It does make a big difference to what you are allowed to do with it, especially when it comes to towing trailers.
 

quattro

Member
Location
scotland
On the look out for a water bowser and or a slurry tanker…… can buy a sensible looking rigid lorry for sub 10k which is competitive with the above.
Any idea if it can be reclassified? Wouldn’t be going more than 5 miles from base. Don’t fancy the cost of inspections and Trainning if it can be helped
Yes it can be done
 

Lowland1

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Mixed Farmer
Our neighbours who ran a big baling operation used to cart all their straw with Volvo artics that were classed as tractors or at the least were exempt from HGV regulations. I think there are all kinds of questions such as mileage covered per year what is being hauled etc.
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
There used to be one based near Aberystwyth. Llanfarian to be precise. Used by a sheep farmer with land all over the place and towing a large livestock trailer behind. It had been converted and certified to be legal and I think it had a drawbar at the back and didn’t use the fifth wheel as a hitch. When I was on the road a lot, I saw it several times pulled over by VOSA who used to harass him no end, but really couldn’t make anything stick because it was running as a tractor. I don’t recall it running on anything other than truck tyres.
 

bitwrx

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Check owt mah tractor (or maybe agri machine; not sure).

Originally came to us as a Bedford TL, from an ag contractor. Since being with us, the body has been re-trucked onto the DAF you see here. Necessary formalities have been gone through with DVSA. Involved before and after pics and some paperwork which was sorted before my time in the business, so not 100% sure on the details.

Was fairly painless as I understand it, probably aided by it being clearly only able to be used for purely agricultural straw and forage harvesting purposes.

We have it serviced every year, and have a brake test done at the local HGV place, just to show we're on top of things if anything bad were to happen on the road.

From a practical point of view, once you've been down the headland tramline a few times, it'll cruise along at 90kmh if the field is big enough to get up to speed. Air suspension is a revelation compared to leaf spring rear, particularly unladen.

Total cost to purchase the truck and swap the body over was £15k.

PS - does anyone know how to fit wafer weights to the front end of a larry?
 
There used to be one based near Aberystwyth. Llanfarian to be precise. Used by a sheep farmer with land all over the place and towing a large livestock trailer behind. It had been converted and certified to be legal and I think it had a drawbar at the back and didn’t use the fifth wheel as a hitch. When I was on the road a lot, I saw it several times pulled over by VOSA who used to harass him no end, but really couldn’t make anything stick because it was running as a tractor. I don’t recall it running on anything other than truck tyres.
It was one of my former colleagues uncles and he was pulled over most weeks, generally because he twas towing on a drawbar rather than the 5th wheel. I saw him as far south as Cardigan occasionally. Only ever saw it on road tyres, nothing agri about it other than the drawbar float behind it.
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
@Al R didnt you used to have a tipper lorry for carting grain that was an ag vehicle?
Yeah we did, running on red just like a tractor yet did 60mph 👌🏼 Mainly used in the grain store as it was only 22’ long total length holding 12t so it could get around the ultra tight grain store with ease.
 
Location
southwest
On the look out for a water bowser and or a slurry tanker…… can buy a sensible looking rigid lorry for sub 10k which is competitive with the above.
Any idea if it can be reclassified? Wouldn’t be going more than 5 miles from base. Don’t fancy the cost of inspections and Trainning if it can be helped


That sounds like he wants to mount a tank on the back not use it as a "tractor"
 

Farmer_Joe

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
The North
There used to be one based near Aberystwyth. Llanfarian to be precise. Used by a sheep farmer with land all over the place and towing a large livestock trailer behind. It had been converted and certified to be legal and I think it had a drawbar at the back and didn’t use the fifth wheel as a hitch. When I was on the road a lot, I saw it several times pulled over by VOSA who used to harass him no end, but really couldn’t make anything stick because it was running as a tractor. I don’t recall it running on anything other than truck tyres.
guy round here does same carting straw, just looks like a std tractor unit with road tyres but has agri hitch and trailer 🤷‍♂️
 

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