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A standard driving licence will allow the holder to drive motor homes weighing up to 3,500kg. To drive a larger C1-class vehicle weighing up to 7,500kg requires an additional test. Those who passed their test before 1997 and are not yet 70 can drive both vehicles without taking the extra test. 



If you have the oldie exception for 7.5 tonnes you can tow up to half of that again (so 10&3/4 tonnes MMA = total train weight - in any combination so in principle a 2 tonne truck and an 8 & 3/4 trailer, but that would not be recommended.)

No double or articulated trailers unless someone has a showman's licence and is happy to have 2 drivers in the cab, have the vehicle adapted only for show use, move at 20 mph, and report to the police in each county you cross ?


Joking aside, the towing thing  is useful for scouts with camping gear or minibusses and and canoe trailers, though there is the caveat it cannot be driven for reward.

Problem is all the leaders with older style licences are getting a bit long in the tooth and the bar for the C1 or D1 category is set too high for a 20 something to train up to get the ticket just to drive something for a few long weekends per year, so a lot of groups with younger leaders do things with car convoys with one or two kids in each car, which are probably much worse environmentally, as well as socially.


I see battery vehicles may need a re-visit of the maximum authorised mass and train weights anyway to get greater  maximum ranges, we do not all live within 100 miles of a charge point.

A standard driving licence will allow the holder to drive motor homes weighing up to 3,500kg. To drive a larger C1-class vehicle weighing up to 7,500kg requires an additional test. Those who passed their test before 1997 and are not yet 70 can drive both vehicles without taking the extra test. 



If you have the oldie exception for 7.5 tonnes you can tow up to half of that again (so 10&3/4 tonnes MMA = total train weight - in any combination so in principle a 2 tonne truck and an 8 & 3/4 trailer, but that would not be recommended.)

No double or articulated trailers unless someone has a showman's licence and is happy to have 2 drivers in the cab, have the vehicle adapted only for show use, move at 20 mph, and report to the police in each county you cross ?


Joking aside, the towing thing  is useful for scouts with camping gear or minibusses and and canoe trailers, though there is the caveat it cannot be driven for reward.

Problem is all the leaders with older style licences are getting a bit long in the tooth and the bar for the C1 or D1 category is set too high for a 20 something to train up to get the ticket just to drive something for a few long weekends per year, so a lot of groups with younger leaders do things with car convoys with one or two kids in each car, which are probably much worse environmentally, as well as socially.


I see battery vehicles may need a re-visit of the maximum authorised mass and train weights anyway to get greater  maximum ranges, we do not all live within 100 miles of a charge point.