PART IVCONDITIONS RELATING TO USE

CTRAILERS AND SIDECARS

Number of trailersI183

1

No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a wheeled vehicle of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table drawing a trailer, subject to any exceptions which may be specified in that item in column 3.

TABLE

(regulation 83(1))

1

2

3

Item

Class of vehicles

Exceptions

1

A straddle carrier

—

2

An invalid carriage

—

3

An articulated bus

—

4

A bus not being an articulated bus or a minibus

(a) 1 broken down bus where no person other than the driver is carried in either vehicle or

(b)F21 trailer

5

A locomotive

3 trailers

6

A motor tractor

F31 trailer,

2 trailers if neither is laden

7

A heavy motor car or a motor car not described in item 1, 3 or 4

2 trailers if one of them is a towing implement and part of the other is secured to and either rests on or is suspended from that implement

1 trailer in any other case

8

An agricultural motor vehicle

  1. a

    in respect of trailers other than agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances, such trailers as are permitted under items 5, 6, or 7 above, as the case may be; or

  2. b

    in respect of agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances—

    1. i

      2 unladen agricultural trailers, or

    2. ii

      1 agricultural trailer and I agricultural trailed appliance, or

    3. iii

      2 agricultural trailed appliances

2

For the purposes of items 5, 6 and 7 of the Table—

a

an unladen articulated vehicle, when being drawn by another motor vehicle because it has broken down, shall be treated as a single trailer; and

b

a towed roller used for the purposes of agriculture, horticulture or forestry and consisting of several separate rollers shall be treated as one agricultural trailed appliance.

3

No track-laying motor vehicle which exceeds 8 m in overall length shall draw a trailer other than a broken down vehicle which is being drawn in consequence of the breakdown.

F14

For the purpose of this regulation, the word “trailer” does not include a vehicle which is drawn by a steam powered vehicle and which is used solely for carrying water for the purpose of the drawing vehicle.