Trailer number plates.

[Exfarmer]

@Exfarmer I refer you to this part of @Courier's post. When you hire a tractor, do you become the keeper? If not I don't believe you can put one of your own number plates on the trailer

Hiring a tractor is no different to leasing, you are the temporary keeper. It would be totally correct to place your own plate on the trailer, or use one matching the tractor.

 

[Lazy Sod]

Hiring a tractor is no different to leasing, you are the temporary keeper. It would be totally correct to place your own plate on the trailer, or use one matching the tractor.

If you take on a lease on a tractor, you are the keeper and your name goes on the logbook, even though you are not the owner. If you hired a tractor for the harvest period, for example, you wouldn't be the keeper.

 

[michael N123]

come to cumbria were none of this matters

 

[roscoe erf]

I don't get this at all. Whats hard about one number plate for each tractor and have a number plate holder on each trailer and swap it according to towing vehicle.

that would never work cant think of any industry that would put up with that ..............................

 

[Netherfield]

Back before side loading silage, one local dairyman had one of his trailers with 4 plates on the back door,and written above 'One of these up front'.

 

[Pond digger]

You don't actually need to display a registration plate on a trailer just so long as you have a two black on white plates visible i.e. One on EACH SIDE of the towing tractor.

Saves all that faffing about with needing to display rear plates which must then be lit as well !!!

From: -

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/pdfs/uksi_20010561_en.pdf


Fixing of registration plates: works trucks, road rollers and agricultural machines
8.
—(1) This regulation applies to works trucks, road rollers and agricultural machines.
(2) A registration plate must be fixed on the vehicle in a vertical position or, where that is
not possible, in a position as close to the vertical as is reasonably practicable—
(a) on both sides of the vehicles, so that the characters of the mark are easily
distinguishable from both sides of the vehicle, or
(b) on the rear of the vehicle, so that the characters of the mark are easily distinguishable
from behind the vehicle, or
(c) where the vehicle is towing a trailer or trailers and the plate is not fixed on the sides
of the vehicle, on the trailer or the rearmost trailer (as the case may be) so that the
characters of the mark are easily distinguishable from behind the trailer.
(3) Where the towing vehicle is an agricultural machine, a plate fixed on the trailer may,
instead of displaying the registration mark of the towing vehicle, display the mark of any other
agricultural machine kept by the keeper of the towing vehicle

I’ve never seen a vertically mounted number plate: what are they on about? You’d have to cock your head to read it surely? Number plates are all mounted horizontally, aren’t they? I’m baffled (doesn’t take much mind)!

 

[Highland Mule]

I’ve never seen a vertically mounted number plate: what are they on about? You’d have to cock your head to read it surely? Number plates are all mounted horizontally, aren’t they? I’m baffled (doesn’t take much mind)!

Vertically mounted = readable from the side (and not from a helicopter...)

 

[Pond digger]

Vertically mounted = readable from the side (and not from a helicopter...)

Oh I see. Thanks.