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towing a disco with an A frame
james 100:
--- Quote from: Bluestrobe on February 14, 2009, 22:11:32 ---DON'T DO IT IS HIGHLY ILLEGAL :twisted: :twisted: :evil: :police:
Unless the brakes are coupled on the vehicle you are towing and your vehicle it is against the law and you will be charged, friendly warning, your choice!
Get sensible and put it on a trailer and stay legal, even under recovery legislation, recovery vehicles are only meant to tow a vehicle for the minimum distance necessary to remove it from a road it is causing an obstruction on. Anything else should be flat bed or trailer.
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What about the big motorhomes that tow small smart cars/fiat 500's behind on a A frame? How does that work?
auf_wiedersehen_pet:
--- Quote from: james 100 on February 15, 2009, 11:47:58 ---
--- Quote from: Bluestrobe on February 14, 2009, 22:11:32 ---DON'T DO IT IS HIGHLY ILLEGAL :twisted: :twisted: :evil: :police:
Unless the brakes are coupled on the vehicle you are towing and your vehicle it is against the law and you will be charged, friendly warning, your choice!
Get sensible and put it on a trailer and stay legal, even under recovery legislation, recovery vehicles are only meant to tow a vehicle for the minimum distance necessary to remove it from a road it is causing an obstruction on. Anything else should be flat bed or trailer.
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What about the big motorhomes that tow small smart cars/fiat 500's behind on a A frame? How does that work?
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And what if there was a driver in the towed car to operate the brakes?
Eeyore:
The legality of towing depends on distance and circumstance. You can tow a vehicle for emergancy recovery, and that's your lot.
However as pointed out, long distance towing with an aframe is a no-no. The wagon would be best trailered.
Motorhomes still have to comply with the 750kg trailer weight. Sometimes thay have complex arrangements to effect braking on the towed car, but more often than not, they're towing illegally (there ain't many cars less than 750kg in this day and age).
Eeyore:
--- Quote from: Eeyore on February 15, 2009, 13:04:36 ---The legality of towing depends on distance and circumstance. You can tow a vehicle for emergancy recovery (providing its road legal), and that's your lot.
However as pointed out, long distance towing with an aframe is a no-no. The wagon would be best trailered.
Motorhomes still have to comply with the 750kg trailer weight. Sometimes thay have complex arrangements to effect braking on the towed car, but more often than not, they're towing illegally (there ain't many cars less than 750kg in this day and age).
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Bluestrobe:
What Eeyore said!
Yes someone can be in the car operating the brakes but only for a very short emergency recovery.
The towed vehicle should be road legal as well.
Even recovery operators doing suspended recovery should only do that for the minimum distance before it should be placed on a flatbed or a trailer, any vehicle towed on an a frame becomes a trailer and motorhome types are breaking the law unless using an approved brake coupling setup, there are an increasing amount of them using small trailers for the cars now and they are either extremely law abiding or have previously been nicked for it and shown the error of their ways.
As has been said get a trailer and be LEGAL, on top of that if you have an accident whilst towing illegally your insurance is null and void
Go online and look up Road Traffic Act, it's all there.
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