This is of interest to me and several friends, old license ie before they changed so we have B+E, C1+E with code 107 (so limited to gross train weight of 8250Kgs) and D1+E as I have heard lots of stories about what you can and cant do, so I was hoping to try and clarify as much as possible with regards to our situations, ie: general towing over 750Kgs.
This I can see, all ok there.
Now we are getting a bit juicy !!!! so what you are saying here then is all the licensing categories ect refer to max weights,
but in reality, say you had a car which weighed 1200Kgs (guessing the average tow car) and was able to tow a train weight of 2000Kgs (this would be load and weight of trailer) but the trailer was designed to have a train weight of 3000Kgs (this would be load and weight of trailer) but you only had a train weight of 1000Kgs (this would be load and weight of trailer)
So in this situation you have 1200Kgs car plus a train weight of 1000Kgs making GTW of 2200Kgs
and not 1200Kgs car plus train weight of 3000Kgs making GTW of 4200Kgs
Would this be legal or not :nut:
Also with reference to trailer widths this I gather is now 2.55 regardless of what is towing it obviously you need wing mirrors to be able to see down the sides though.