Anyone else out in the playground wonder at the regulations for tow vehicles and what they can legally tow.......
For example my Motor Home has a GVM of 10.5 Tons. Normal weight when loaded and full water tanks and fuel tanks runs around 8.5 tons.
I tow a Suzuki Grand Vitara flat towed behind the MH.
I have been researching the ADR's re tow weights because I want to change the A Frame.
Amazed to find I must weigh three and a half times the vehicle I tow.
How then do we have tugs that can tow three and a half ton Vans and weigh less than the Van.
Now the caravan industry are proposing FOUR tone Vans.
Mystified.
macka17 said
04:48 PM May 30, 2017
4 ton vans equates to US Utes and small trucks only.
even 3 ton are illegal behind most of todays vehicles.
When you add\subtract the figures in\on both vehicles.
Getting up to those weights.
I reckon ALL should be 5th wheelers.
and all drivers of such have Semi licences.
The roads would be a LOT safer then.
With ALL drivers having a modicum of
serious driving instruction,Training.
Not an old retiree
not having had much more than family car and 6x4 before.
Anyone else out in the playground wonder at the regulations for tow vehicles and what they can legally tow.......
For example my Motor Home has a GVM of 10.5 Tons. Normal weight when loaded and full water tanks and fuel tanks runs around 8.5 tons.
I tow a Suzuki Grand Vitara flat towed behind the MH.
I have been researching the ADR's re tow weights because I want to change the A Frame.
Amazed to find I must weigh three and a half times the vehicle I tow.
How then do we have tugs that can tow three and a half ton Vans and weigh less than the Van.
Now the caravan industry are proposing FOUR tone Vans.
Mystified.
even 3 ton are illegal behind most of todays vehicles.
When you add\subtract the figures in\on both vehicles.
Getting up to those weights.
I reckon ALL should be 5th wheelers.
and all drivers of such have Semi licences.
The roads would be a LOT safer then.
With ALL drivers having a modicum of
serious driving instruction,Training.
Not an old retiree
not having had much more than family car and 6x4 before.