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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Towing Part 2 - a car with no trailer
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Here's a question I am unsure of. Is it legal to tow a car - in this case with a proper metal towing shaft so there is no free play like there is with rope - I plan to tow it to a local airfield for brake compound testing and bedding in. I know cars can be towed, but does the car being towed have to have: a) road tax? b) insurance? The towed car will *not* be powering itself, but I will have to sit there steering it, but nothing else. The journey is not far, probably only 10 miles, but I would like it to be a legal one. Trailers have no tax, and no insurenace either as that is covered by the vehicle powering it so I wonder if this also applies in my case? i.e. I don't need to tax and insure the race car (oh g, the cost) I normally hire a trailer, but for such a short journey I dodn't want to if I don't have to. Phil |
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PDL - Oh yes - car must be fully road legal - the law classes it as a mechanically propelled vehicle as well as a motor vehicle and so if someone is steering it they are deemd to be driving it - needs insurance, tax, MOT, legally treaded tyres, working lights, etc. You've got to think that if you had an acident whilst towing it - it has got to be covered same as normal car is.
A trailer is not the same because it has no self propulsion and therefore is not a motor or mechanically propelled vehicle. The same as if any car is parked on a highway - even if it never turns a wheel - it must be insured and legal, etc. |
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According to a website which seems pretty clued-up, this is not legal unless the vehicle being towed weighs less than 750kg. And as your car has to be road legal this seems pretty unlikely.
http://www.ntta.co.uk/ says in the FAQ Quote:
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