Hampshire B+E trailer category

Samir02392 · Post by **Samir02392** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:39 am

Hello im looking for someone preferably in the Portsmouth area that does the b+e training.. Im hoping to get it so I can get a boat and trailer.

Cheers,

Samir

hammyloz · Post by **hammyloz** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:44 pm

here you go buddy i hope this link helps you out

http://www.stevedavisadi.co.uk/B+E.htm

Samir02392 · Post by **Samir02392** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:17 pm

Thanks

It looks like I wont need one, im planning on hooking up a small fishing boat with a trailer onto a estate car.

If I read correctly the boat and trailer cannot weigh more than the car and both the boat, trailer and car cannot weight more than 3.5 tonnes combined.. I think I got that in a breath lol

hammyloz · Post by **hammyloz** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 5:59 pm

also when did you pass your driving test as im sure you would have what is known as grandad rights if it was a while ago

Samir02392 · Post by **Samir02392** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:54 pm

Oh no im not on grandad rights I have been driving since 2005. Im only looking for small boat to fish off so im assuming wont need the B+E

Dorsetfly · Post by **Dorsetfly** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:38 am

If you passed your test after 1997 I think everybody needs a special licence to pull any kind of trailer. Or was it that you couldn't drive anything over 3.5 tonnes. Might be both actually, brains addled these days.

eccles · Post by **eccles** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:17 pm

You need to really check your weights mate. My neighbour bought a boat hoping his estate car would be adequate to tow it up the slipway but he soon found out differently to his embarrassment. He has now got a Chelsea tractor of some sort with a bit more guts in it to pull his boat in.

Post by **flattiefanatic** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:35 pm

I think you will be fine.

Your full car licence allows your to tow a trailer (unbraked) with a load up to 750kg (inc. trailer weight). It is also possible to tow more than 750kg so long as:

1. The combined weight of the car and trailer doesn't exceed 3.5 tonnes.

and

2. The weight of the trailer doesn't exceed the towing limit of the car.

Legally if a trailer can take more than 750kg, it will have some form of brakes fitted normally over-run brakes, I think. If the trailer doesn't have brakes of any sort, you should be ok.

If in doubt, find out about the weight limits of the trailer and car.(copied from license inquiries)

Post by **rabbi2** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:32 pm

Spot on Flattie mate. A lot of caravan owners unfortunately are braking the law without even realising it
Cheers
keith