Can you find me this in writing?
I looked and looked for this and never found anything.
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Plating a home built trailer.
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Can you find me this in writing?
I looked and looked for this and never found anything.
TripleSix
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- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Just build yourself a new trailer.
It'll be 100% better and safer than a lot of trailers farmers drag around on the roads with bent mudguards, no lights, oil leaks, dodgy brakes and rust holes...
Clag one of these on and go for it.
It'll be 100% better and safer than a lot of trailers farmers drag around on the roads with bent mudguards, no lights, oil leaks, dodgy brakes and rust holes...
Clag one of these on and go for it.
TRAILER WEIGHT PLATE TWIN AXLE TRAILER HORSE BOX TRANSPORTER Uk chassis and Vin | eBay
Plate that is designed, produced, and sold direct to you for use on Twin Axle Braked and Un-braked trailers. Printed on 0.7mm thick aluminium plate, pre-hole punched ready for mounting with 3mm pop rivets or self tapping screws.
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Thanks for suggestion of Erentec, never heard of them !
Vehicle Certification Agency
Information on Type Approval of Motor Vehicles and Trailers
www.vehicle-certification-agency.gov.uk
Deutzdx3
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Try and dig out the paperwork, it was 8years back now. That’s how I know they have to meet regulations to go on the road. We had to do it to two trailers to be able to insure them for road use. Farm built trailers we had fabricated in the late 90’s
How much
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Vehicle Certification Agency
Information on Type Approval of Motor Vehicles and Trailers
To be fair the FAQ section of that is states :
Q2: Who will be affected by ECWVTA?
The majority of businesses affected will be the manufacturers and converters of commercial vehicles, namely buses and coaches, goods vehicles and trailers. For a more comprehensive description of the vehicles affected please refer to the vehicle category definitions within the directive.
Two business sectors which will be particularly affected are body builders, i.e. those that take a chassis and build or modify a body of any description on it before selling it to the customer, and manufacturers of commercial vehicles imported from inside or outside Europe.
It does not mention Agricultural trailer only commercial ones I would say as long as the axles , tyres , hitch and brakes are up to the specification for the load to be carried , and a plate identifying the trailer and its capacity is fixed on to it, along with lights reflective markings and so on are correctly fitted it will be acceptable
It certainly used to be the case that agricultural trailers were exempted from type approval but I think that exemption was finished a few years ago. In any event the reason I linked to that VCA page is that it describes the alternatives to type approval which are more appropriate for small volume manufacture.
Netherfield
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- West Yorkshire
And a set of theseClag one of these on and go for it.
TRAILER WEIGHT PLATE TWIN AXLE TRAILER HORSE BOX TRANSPORTER Uk chassis and Vin | eBay
Plate that is designed, produced, and sold direct to you for use on Twin Axle Braked and Un-braked trailers. Printed on 0.7mm thick aluminium plate, pre-hole punched ready for mounting with 3mm pop rivets or self tapping screws.rover.ebay.com
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Speedstar
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- Scottish Borders
are you not making a trailed appliance not a trailer as the rules on make both of these are very much different
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- Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire
I doubt very much if a bowser would fall into the trailed appliance category.
Speedstar
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- Scottish Borders
I think you will find it will, has an engine driven pump on it for a special job
First thing I would do is get the brakes tested at an HGV CENTRE not just give it a Tilly pass.
sexond thing is do is ask your insurance company to put in writing what needs doing to it to allow them to insure it on the road.
without either of those two I would NOT dare use it on the road. The next difficult question to ask yourself is... is the towing vehicle legal to tow it after the first two questions have been answered!
if you think I’m being silly and over cautious, please look up the fine given to Tophams over the very very sad fatal accident they had! The fine would break most businesses or families!
Edit, que all the JFDI comments now, none of those people will be willing to stand up in court or at a funeral should the worst happen
sexond thing is do is ask your insurance company to put in writing what needs doing to it to allow them to insure it on the road.
without either of those two I would NOT dare use it on the road. The next difficult question to ask yourself is... is the towing vehicle legal to tow it after the first two questions have been answered!
if you think I’m being silly and over cautious, please look up the fine given to Tophams over the very very sad fatal accident they had! The fine would break most businesses or families!
Edit, que all the JFDI comments now, none of those people will be willing to stand up in court or at a funeral should the worst happen
Pheasant Surprise
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- Woodbridge, Suffolk
Mike is certainly a very knowledgable and helpful guy. Although working reduced hours these days, think he wants to slow down, but perhaps not retire fully.
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- Grantham
Would Graham Smith,Redcad, be able to help with this?
Tomtrac
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- Penrith cumbria
A friend off mine has made quad and small trailors for over twenty plus years and a year or two ago the law changed so he had to send any new trailers that go on the road to get design tested structurally etc he was about to but then realised if he put a wooden floor or different paint on he had to send it off so every different variant had to be sent away
So he just gave up with road trailers and just makes them with out springs and light for off road fam use only
A farm i know got a new 8ton twin axle trailer made in ireland from a big dealer and it hasn’t a handbrake on it how can that be leagal
So he just gave up with road trailers and just makes them with out springs and light for off road fam use only
A farm i know got a new 8ton twin axle trailer made in ireland from a big dealer and it hasn’t a handbrake on it how can that be leagal
is it not just a case oc CE marking your trailer?
There is no test involved, unless you are asking someone else to undertake th CE marking in which case they may choose to do so?
Deutzdx3
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To get our trailers so they could be insured for road use they had to go to dvla and go through a test to make sure lights were in the correct place, brakes worked as they should and with in limits allowed. Basically an iva test.
The above is taken from this. https://assets.publishing.service.g.../individual-vehicle-approval-scheme-guide.pdf
Pheasant Surprise
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Do any ag. trailer makers actually type approve their trailers? Like you I was under the impression they were (still) exempted from type approval and certainly would be the case for farm built one-offs irrespective of whether it’s deemed a “trailer” or an “appliance”
My 2018 Stewart low loader has a CE mark on the trailer plate, but I don’t recall seeing or getting anything like a CoC with the delivery paperwork...is it type approved? I could check, but I doubt it.
Notwithstanding anything you buy or make that goes on the public highway, needs to be road legal and roadworthy. They may not need type approval but still must comply with the domestic Construction & Use regs and the various RTA rules around lighting etc.
They must be plated correctly according to age for axle weights etc. and if you wanted to be on top of the law should really have the brakes properly tested on a rolling road - not one of those Silly Tilly Test nonsense things.