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• Pigeon commented on Place your bets
  "a trailer of that weight needs more than an ordinary car licence" Even for you? It wouldn't surprise me that people who passed their test recently can't do it, but I know my licence lets me drive/tow some bloody big things up to several tonnes. Not quite sure how big because it's never come up. I can't remember if I personally ever had to tow anything heavy for work, which would have been before the big reduction in the amount of extras you automatically get with a car licence that came in in the 90s, but I do remember that...
• Elderly Cynic commented on Place your bets
  True. I misread....
• Elderly Cynic commented on Place your bets
  I turned 73 during COVID, and I had the option of abandoning my 8 tonne grandfather right, or ordering a paper copy through a post office (assume they would get one for me). So I am limited to 3.5 tonnes, like youngsters. And, of course, that is only for braked trailers - unbraked ones may not exceed 750 Kg, gross. I can't remember what my car is rated for, but it's a lot less than 1400 Kg. However, a Skoda Fabia is not a large car....
• Moz commented on Place your bets
  Sydney's modern classified ads are full of "man with a van, by the hour" and similar things for just about any class of vehicle. I hired a man with a ute and a roofrack to carry 6m long coolstore panels, for example. Was ~$80 for an hour, from pick up point to drop off point. www.gumtree.com.au but they have "improved" the site to make it impossible to share search links without full tracking. Type "man with a van" into search, pick a location (in Australia, obviously) and away you go....
• Elderly Cynic commented on Place your bets
  The UK is not Australia; such services do exist, but not for all types of load (e.g. manure!), nor always at feasible prices (e.g. taking my recumbent trike to the Highlands). However, the reason I was happy to give up my 8 ton right is that I would prefer to use those rather than risk driving something that size and which I have no experience with, at my age. Incidentally, the 3.5 ton limit is gross - vehicle, occupants, luggage, trailer and contents - and it would be easy to exceed the licence limit on (for example) a new high-end...