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hrh_dave:
BTM - P16LET says it was bought at Malcolm Websters at Ingleby Greenhow..... Hauls everything from furniture to sheeps, handy little things they are :)
madmatt:
--- Quote from: "P16LET" ---Just out of curiosity, why would you need it braked anyway? ....as a single axle trailer you're limited to 50mph....
--- End quote ---
Can I ask where on earth you got that idea from? I've read umpteen pages of information and I've done my towing test and not come across this at all?
The speed limits for towing are 60mph on Motorways and dual carriage ways
50mph on single carriageway roads regardless of number of axles
P16LET:
madmatt
--- Quote ---Can I ask where on earth you got that idea from? I've read umpteen pages of information and I've done my towing test and not come across this at all?
--- End quote ---
No need to get quite so shirty! :shock:
As it happens, I read it in the highway code quite a few years ago now and was advised by a trailer salesman of the same thing prior to buying my P6e (...not Malcolm Webster at Ifor I hasten to add)...perhaps it was on the basis that I was going to be towing livestock, and caning down the motorway at 60, although legal, is perhaps not that great for what is in the back?!...and similarly, perhaps my confusion about legal towing speed being under the actual limit is better than the ignorance demonstrated by a large proportion of trailer users, who feel compelled to drive at 70+?? :shock: :roll:
I will stand corrected on this point and am grateful being enlightened, but would have appreciated you doing it in something of a more courteous manner. :(
Range Rover Blues:
I remeber a time when you were limited to 50 unless you had the kerbweight of the car and the MAM of the trailer displayed, then you could stick a 60 sign on the back.
Ja1983:
i havew a copy of the highway code in the disco (freebie from work) which i will check through ... when time and memory merge to satisfy the moment...
as far as i knew, it was 60 on the motroway, and 10mph below on others... although i tthink 30mph is still 30... i could be (an frequently am!) wrong... so dont quote me!
it wasnt long back when i was on the a1 i saw a caravan impersonating a fish... i went for the outer lane, and passed in horror to see it been pulled by an elderly chap in a corsa...... i sped up and kept an eye on him in the rear view mirror- out of my way!
lets look on the tube shall we...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q7K1bBhjkY :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UCZF_UnG10 :shock: :D
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