Towing capacity of a peugeot 307, 1.4 petrol

DJ98

Looking to get a small trailer to hold approximately 10 ewes or 13-14 lambs to bring them to and from the mart, what options are available for the above car, would I require a trailer licence?

ganmo

You can tow up to 750kg on your car licence including the weight of the trailer

anthony500_1

Max you can tow is 750kg gross, this includes sheep in your case and weight of trailer.

So 10 sheep at 50kg head is 500kg only leaving 250kg for weight of trailer.
So if you can get a trailer in or around 250kg empty your sorted and keep the sheep to 50kg your flying it
Othrrwise you will need a BE licence.

Now what the car is allowed tow I don't know. Check the owners manual or chassis plate it will tell you the gross train weight of car and trailer combined

tomwaterford

Back axles v.light and weak spot on peougeot so thread carefully

_Brian

ganmo wrote: »

You can tow up to 750kg on your car licence including the weight of the trailer

This is partly correct but mostly incorrect.

With a regular B license you can tow.
An unbraked trailer with a design gross weight up to 750kg
OR
A braked trailer where the combined designed gross weight of both car and trailer is up to 3500kg
BUT
You must not exceed the manufacturer stated towing capacity of the car.


My guess is the towing capacity will be ~1000-1200kg for that car size with a braked trailer.

You need to look at the plate on the car and it will tell you what you can tow with that specific car.

White Clover

_Brian wrote: »

This is partly correct but mostly incorrect.

With a regular B license you can tow.
An unbraked trailer with a design gross weight up to 750kg
OR
A braked trailer where the combined designed gross weight of both car and trailer is up to 3500kg
BUT
You must not exceed the manufacturer stated towing capacity of the car.


My guess is the towing capacity will be ~1000-1200kg for that car size with a braked trailer.

You need to look at the plate on the car and it will tell you what you can tow with that specific car.

Brian, on my car it states gross train weight as 3360kg and gross vehicle weight of 1950kg.
What is the towing capacity of my car?

_Brian

1450kg with a braked trailer

Now, the really important point to note is that the gross train, vehicle & trailer weight referred to is the designed gross weight.

For example You can't pull a triple axle ifor just because it's empty and weighing 1450kg, that trailer has much too high of a "designed" gross weight, probably 3500kg

1450kg would cover the likes of a single axle trailer.
At work we recently bought a new single axle 8*4 it has a designed gross weight of 1400kg. With creels and a ramp it's an awful handy yoke

_Brian

Where things are "interesting" is on home made trailers.

We have a home built 8*4 twin axle builders style trailer. It's probably 30 years old and built to no standard or designed gross weight.

I wonder if i was stopped with that how would the RSA or traffic corp decide on its designed gross weight.

Could I argue it was 1400kg.

Similar purpose built trailers are plated to ~2000kg

_Brian

Then there's the whole farce of plating trailers up or down.

If you have a purpose built trailer most companies will stamp you a new plate with different weights (within reason), it costs about €200 last I heard.

So they will take a trailer currently plated for say 2000kg and plate it down to 1400 kg and charge you for the service. That would make a larger trailer legal to pull on a B license. But if you actually go over the 1400kg you can be prosecuted for overloading.