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[feeutfo]

Some here may find this familiar...

Car surplus to requirements, so has been un insured for a while, tax recently expired. Need to move it 40miles.

Insure and tax it. Drive it away. Expensive.

Or tow/trailer it. I don't have a vehicle big enough to tow, so Question here is do I have the required license to drive a flatbed if I could find one to hire? Bike and car license cover it?
Car is approaching two ton in weight.

Further thought, it's a private sale, would it be easier for the owner to insure it temporarily, just to get it taxed for 6months? Then cancel the insurance once taxed? Not aware if an Mot issue, presume Mot in place. I can drive it away then. Not sure if sorned though.

[venom]

If you passed your car test before 1997 you can drive up to 7.5 ton GVW  or do you know anyone with trade plates then no need to tax

[Kevin Wood]

How heavy is the vehicle? EDIT: Please read the manual

As said, old gits middle aged folk like us will have the 7.5 tonne entitlement, so ought to be able to drive a vehicle that will uplift it if it's a "normal" sized car. Not if it's a steam loco, admittedly.

[henryd]

How heavy is the vehicle? EDIT: Please read the manual

As said, old gits middle aged folk like us will have the 7.5 tonne entitlement, so ought to be able to drive a vehicle that will uplift it if it's a "normal" sized car. Not if it's a steam loco, admittedly.

Unless its a small transporter that the car may well fit onto but may well exceed the GVW if the car weighs 2 tonnes

[zirk]

Would have thought Driver with Trade Plates for a couple of hours would be the cheapest (beer tokens) option.

[feeutfo]

Quick call to a self drive car transport hire firm reveals I would be legal. But the omega exceeds thier load limit of 1.5tons.

[bigboykarl]

couldn't you tow it with your mig with an a frame ??

[Kevin Wood]

couldn't you tow it with your mig with an a frame ??

Car needs to be road legal for that.

[MaxV6]

Further thought, it's a private sale, would it be easier for the owner to insure it temporarily, just to get it taxed for 6months? Then cancel the insurance once taxed?

new continuous insurance rule might put kybosh on that

[bigboykarl]

yeah your right kevin a was just reading a thread on pistonheads about it..funny how i see 4x4's towing other 4x4 on a frames going to a place called frickley for some off road fun..

[Kevin Wood]

yeah your right kevin a was just reading a thread on pistonheads about it..funny how i see 4x4's towing other 4x4 on a frames going to a place called frickley for some off road fun..

Yes.. Not saying it doesn't happen. It's the worst combination, IMHO. A 2 tonne unbraked trailer.

Personally, having experienced haw well an Omega tows at the weight limit, I'd rather chuck it on a Brian James and take a risk on someone spotting it's overweight. At least I know I can stop the combination if something goes wrong.

[feeutfo]

couldn't you tow it with your mig with an a frame ??

Car needs to be road legal for that.

yes if the cars wheels are on the road, it has to be legal. Towed or not, makes no odds.

[venom]

Quick call to a self drive car transport hire firm reveals I would be legal. But the omega exceeds thier load limit of 1.5tons.

That would've been a transit size flat bed which is 3.5 ton GVW, you need a cargo/LDV 45 size but without a digital tachograph

[bigboykarl]

just read a thread that said if u lift the front wheels like on a towing dolly then u don't have to be legal....but then u fall fowl of the 750kg /unbraked load law

[aaronjb]

Further thought, it's a private sale, would it be easier for the owner to insure it temporarily, just to get it taxed for 6months? Then cancel the insurance once taxed? Not aware if an Mot issue, presume Mot in place. I can drive it away then. Not sure if sorned though.

That's how I just picked up the Jag - although I heard some post offices will refuse to tax a car on temporary insurance cover so I insured it for 12 months, sent the seller the PDF insurance cert, he went off and taxed it and I turned up the next day with the price of the car + price of the tax and drove it home.

Now I'll cancel the insurance and cash in the tax..

Almost certainly cheaper - even at the full cost of the tax - than hiring a flat bed big enough to carry a 2 tonne car.