Lorry & licence weight limits
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:25 pm
A recent article in Horse and Hounds revealed that at an informal weight check on horse lorries, over half of 7.5 tonne lorries were over weight.
This didn't come as much of a surprise, as a new lorry can be over 6 tonnes dry, before you've added 3 horses, fuel, water, tack, pasengers etc.
Now I always assumed that this was a licensing issue and if you had a heavy lorry you needed an HGV licence (or hoped you didn't get stopped - probably more likely in the horsey community). My wife suggested however that it was a loading issue and that a 7.5 tonne lorry should not exceed that weight.
Can someone shed some light on this?
This didn't come as much of a surprise, as a new lorry can be over 6 tonnes dry, before you've added 3 horses, fuel, water, tack, pasengers etc.
Now I always assumed that this was a licensing issue and if you had a heavy lorry you needed an HGV licence (or hoped you didn't get stopped - probably more likely in the horsey community). My wife suggested however that it was a loading issue and that a 7.5 tonne lorry should not exceed that weight.
Can someone shed some light on this?