Car transporter licence

[jamesd]

HI all

I have a freelander and was gonna buy a trailer to tow a car to events. It'd only be a bmw 323 or similar on the trailer. DO i need the EB licence or am i ok wit the standard B?

thanks

[Larryk]

I think its done on the amount of axles on the trailer, but not 100% sure. As far as I know you don't need the EB if you have a single axle trailer, but if you go to twin axle then you need the EB

[thehatchet]

You need the EB licence to pull a double axle trailer over 750kgs. Also you can only pull up to 750kg on a B licence

[Dave]

if the trailer and load weighs more than 750kg you need a B+E license. So you will need to do the license.

[jamesd]

I thought the total trailer,load and vehicle had to be under 3500kg with a B?Sorry bout the questions.just trying to work out how much this'll cost me

[Dave]

I thought the total trailer,load and vehicle had to be under 3500kg with a B?Sorry bout the questions.just trying to work out how much this'll cost me

That's a B+E! If you check your license, beside trailer it will say 750kg! Your freelander also will have a maxed braked tow weight which is the max weight your jeep can take using a braked trailer. It should say that in your owners manual. There's something about MAM as well which I think is the max vehicle train weight or something and your trailer needs to be plated to match the towing weight of your vehicle or lower than the max towing weight of your jeep.

Guards are supposed to clamping down on it big time so better safe than sorry!

[DaveM-sport]

B licence is 750kg trailer and 3500kg MAM
BE is 7000kg MAM and trailer within towing capacity.


With a B licence. You can tow any trailer upto the weight of 750kg but the MAM must be below 3500kg. i.e; if you have a jeep weighing 3000kg just for example, you'll only be able to pull a trailer of 500kg even if the towing capacity of the jeep might be 3.5-7 tonne while you'd still be able to tow 750kg if you just had a small van.

Realistically, all you'll legally carry to a track with a B licence is something like a very light autograss buggy


If you have a BE licence, you can tow any trailer once the MAM is below 7000kg and you don't exceed the towing capacity of the vehicle your towing with.

For example, a Freelander may only be able to tow around 2 or 2.5tonnes so the trailer and freelander combined can only be around 3.5-4tonne or so while a Defender, Navara or something bigger could tow 3.5 so MAM should be about 6 or so.

Some US trucks can tow 5 or 7 tonnes but with a BE licence unless you've had it since before 1989, you'll still be restricted to a 7000kg train weight which is where you could get caught easily say if you had a recent BE licence and something like a Chevy so with the weight of that plus the trailer you might reach the 7000kg limit with very little load.