Truck hire - moving house

Pete67

Anyone know if you need a 'Drivers Card' to hire a 7.5 ton truck for a short period? I have a class C license but it's been I while since I've been in trucks and I think most have electronic tachos now?

guil

ya dont need to use a tacho card as long as it's under 7500kg's and its not being used for hire or reward

-Corkie-

He needs one for anything over 3.5t..

sean1141

i got a lwb transit two weeks ago when my sister was moving house. you can put some amount of stuff into them and drive them on a car licence

JMSE

Pete67 wrote: »

Anyone know if you need a 'Drivers Card' to hire a 7.5 ton truck for a short period? I have a class C license but it's been I while since I've been in trucks and I think most have electronic tachos now?

I wouldnt bother getting a digicard just for a one-off. If you want to be seen to be making an effort, bring an older (pre '06 spec) round tacho chart and fill in your starts and stops on it manually. Any lorry driver who can speak English will give you one no bother, as for the others, I just dont bother trying to explain myself in pigeon anymore. Soz.

-Corkie-

I was going to say hire out an Octavia instead...:p

darragh o meara

Pete67 wrote: »

Anyone know if you need a 'Drivers Card' to hire a 7.5 ton truck for a short period? I have a class C license but it's been I while since I've been in trucks and I think most have electronic tachos now?

All modern trucks will have digital tachos fitted. But if your doing a short journey you can do it without the card, I think it's 10 miles and under that's classified as a short journey. A tacho card can be pickedup for €50 iirc.

Pete67

Thanks folks, looks like I need to apply for the card so, it's a round trip of approx 400 miles. I see the RSA issue them, anyone know how long it takes to get one?

JMSE

Just hire a truck without a digital tacho.

darragh o meara

JMSE wrote: »

Just hire a truck without a digital tacho.

Anything over 3.5 tonnes needs a tacho so it'd be a very small truck to not have one.

To the op, the lwb transit or sprinters are very big inside and might be worth a look plus will be a lot easier and cheaper to hire too. If your set on a truck talk to whoever is gonna hire it to you their sure to have come up against this problem hundreds of times. They might even have a few older trucks with disc tachos for this, the digital tacos came in back in 07 so trucks won't be that old.

On another point I've driven trucks all over this fair country and I've yet to have been pulled up on a tacho issue. I've been asked for a disc twice but the cop had no idea how to read it, on one occasion I gave him a disc that was a few weeks old and not even for that truck as the truck had a digital tacho ( immoral and not recommended under any circumstances) Outside of Ireland though they do ask a lot for them and they know exactly how to read them, most countries police even have the readers for the digital cards and can read every last detail

mondeoman2

Pete67 wrote: »

Thanks folks, looks like I need to apply for the card so, it's a round trip of approx 400 miles. I see the RSA issue them, anyone know how long it takes to get one?

We use 'Dan Ryan' truck rental in work,all their pre 2007 trucks don't have the digital tachos,;)

JMSE

darragh o meara wrote: »

Anything over 3.5 tonnes needs a tacho so it'd be a very small truck to not have one.

I meant hire a truck which has the old type tacho.

knifey_spoonie

Have a look here, You can rent a 3.5t canter with box body. No worries about a taco either

TrailerBob

Also http://WWW.vanrentals.ie they're behind red cow hotel. I have a 3.5 ton canter from them at the mo with 14 foot body. big enough for most house moves. very good to deal with too.

crosstownk

knifey_spoonie wrote: »

Have a look here, You can rent a 3.5t canter with box body. No worries about a taco either

Yep - I'd second this. I rented a 3.5t from Avis when I moved a few years back. No issues with the tacho.

JMSE

could just get these poor divils to help you