Pulling Tandem Trailers

[Seth470]

Just looking into some contracting ways and just wondering if I can pull a low loader with a telehandler on it and then have a muck spreader or tipping trailer on the back.

 

[Speedstar]

Just looking into some contracting ways and just wondering if I can pull a low loader with a telehandler on it and then have a muck spreader or tipping trailer on the back.

Yes if you have beakes on the rear trailer or muckspread law is one loaded trailer & one empty trailer , you will need a second braking system if you are on oil brakes on air just have your air lines piped to the back of your low loader then you can plug your second machine in

 

[CPF]

NO
For example tow two trailers up to a certain length but neither can be loaded and loaded means even if you put your sandwich box in one of trailers ,that is classed as a load .

 

[Seth470]

Yes if you have beakes on the rear trailer or muckspread law is one loaded trailer & one empty trailer , you will need a second braking system if you are on oil brakes on air just have your air lines piped to the back of your low loader then you can plug your second machine in

okey dokey.good to know

 

[CPF]

Yes if you have beakes on the rear trailer or muckspread law is one loaded trailer & one empty trailer , you will need a second braking system if you are on oil brakes on air just have your air lines piped to the back of your low loader then you can plug your second machine in

When did the law get changed then ?
Just interested

 

[Speedstar]

When did the law get changed then ?
Just interested

that is the law as i was pulled up in the summer one sat morning by VOSA & the cops only thing that they were not happy about was they said i was speeding , with they said they were going to do me for but i have never hear a word from them,

 

[Speedstar]

NO
For example tow two trailers up to a certain length but neither can be loaded and loaded means even if you put your sandwich box in one of trailers ,that is classed as a load .

sorry but you are wrong on that one

 

[CPF]

You won't need to prove it to me let's have some documentation

 

[Boohoo]

Both have to be empty according to construction and use regulations

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986

www.legislation.gov.uk

 

[Speedstar]

You won't need to prove it to me let's have some documentation

I do not need to prove to any one , we do it all the time & have been stopped by VOSA a few times & they are happy with us so what is the problem , All so it is a a very grey area as they can be trailed appliance loaded as well & you can tow two of these

 

[s~~t shoveller]

See quite a few spreading line and fert or muck and towing a low loader with teleporter behind tractor and then the spreader behind the low loader so I presumed it's allowed...

 

[Speedstar]

we all so tow a trailer behind the loading shovel with a pick-up on it & sorry to say but that is legal as well & we have been stopped by VOSA with it & they were happy , so maybe that law is different in Scotland to England

 

[snarling bee]

I find lawyers always have the best grammar, spelling and punctuation.

 

[fieldfarmer]

Both have to be empty according to construction and use regulations

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986

www.legislation.gov.uk

It reads one trailer and one agricultural trailed appliance, it does not state it must be an empty trailer, in the reg above it, if towing two agricultural trailers they must be empty, is this the loop hole or am I reading it wrong.

 

[Scrapjockey]

I find lawyers always have the best grammar, spelling and punctuation.

Sorry to have to correct you,their secretaries have the best grammar,spelling, punctuation and frequently most of the brains.

 

[Boohoo]

It reads one trailer and one agricultural trailed appliance, it does not state it must be an empty trailer, in the reg above it, if towing two agricultural trailers they must be empty, is this the loop hole or am I reading it wrong.

Good point! However both examples given in the opening post are an empty trailer being pulled behind a loaded trailer so don't comply with the regulations.

 

[fieldfarmer]

Agreed, but i was more thinking along the lines of a tractor, pulling a lowloader with a handler on it, and also towing a 18cube dung spreader. . ( asking for a friend obviously. ).

 

[Boohoo]

Agreed, but i was more thinking along the lines of a tractor, pulling a lowloader with a handler on it, and also towing a 18cube dung spreader. . ( asking for a friend obviously. ).

In the eyes of the law that's a tractor pulling a loaded trailer and an empty trailer so tell your friend it'll all be fine if the eyes of the law don't see it

 

[fieldfarmer]

In the eyes of the law that's a tractor pulling a loaded trailer and an empty trailer so tell your friend it'll all be fine if the eyes of the law don't see it

Is it not a loaded trailer and a ag appliance?

 

[Boohoo]

Is it not a loaded trailer and a ag appliance?

No, the spreader is a trailer, not an agricultural trailed appliance. An agricultural trailed appliance is something like a baler.