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80km speed limit to slow with trailer!

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  • #32
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,079 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Trailer behind a transit could carry upto 2500kgs

    I don't think this is correct if you just have a regular B licence..


  • #33
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    Green farmer wrote: »
    That transit looks like a double axel rear wheel one. Start with 3,500kg, subtract the chassis cab itself, possibly 1,500 kg , subtract the demountable ifor box, possibly another 1,000kg and your left with 1,000kg payload, maximum. A small 8ft livestock trailer behind your car might carry as much, without the added running costs.

    A lot of us older farmers can drive up to 7.5 ton and pull another 5 ton....EC1 on the license


  • #34
    Justjens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Justjens


    Travelling back from Cambridge with a Defender 90 towing a well loaded trailer, heading for the ferry (probably late!) came up behind a caravan when all of a sudden it started doing Riverdance.

    If I'd hit the brakes God only knows where I would have ended up so I pulled into fast lane and just hoped it was the caravan I collected!

    Fair fecks to the driver as he did manage to save it, but I wouldn't like to have been sitting beside him for the rest of his journey.......

    It can all go pear shaped very quickly and no amount of training will help, the only thing we can control is our speed.


  • #35
    Green farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,004 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    rangler1 wrote: »
    A lot of us older farmers can drive up to 7.5 ton and pull another 5 ton....EC1 on the license

    Look after that, you wouldn't want to try and get one of those today. I could only imagine the amount of theory tests, red tape and specifications they'd make you go through. I've got the trailer licence a few years ago. Had to reset the driving test again and a theory test ( wasn't invented when I originally did test ) just to get the extra tick in the box.


  • #36
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,758 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    doolox wrote: »
    ...at anything less than 100kph with a truck on the leftmost lane and you will soon know that they are doing 100 kph. The entering traffic are officially supposed to increase from 30kph to 100 kph in a matter of 50 meters. Impossible to do.
    There is a nice long merging lane / auxillary lane for the next few km: http://binged.it/1eXAbw8
    rangler1 wrote: »
    A lot of us older farmers can drive up to 7.5 ton and pull another 5 ton....EC1 on the license
    Don't you need to do a driver's CPC? http://rsa.ie/RSA/Professional-Drivers/Driver-Hours/


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  • #37
    Arrow in the Knee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 959 ✭✭✭Arrow in the Knee


    Victor wrote: »
    Don't you need to do a driver's CPC? http://rsa.ie/RSA/Professional-Drivers/Driver-Hours/

    Back in the day they were handing out whatever category of license you wanted like confetti and no driving test required I was told.


  • #38
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    Victor wrote: »
    Don't you need to do a driver's CPC? http://rsa.ie/RSA/Professional-Drivers/Driver-Hours/

    Yes if you drive for a living...probably not for farm work


  • #39
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    80km/hr is plenty with any livestock or builders trailer, loaded or un-loaded. If you have to break hard you cannot be sure what way the trailer may react. I think it is common sense to drive at or under 80.


  • #40
    Green farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,004 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    Arrow in the Knee wrote: »
    Back in the day they were handing out whatever category of license you wanted like confetti and no driving test required I was told.

    Back in the day my grandmother had a full drivin licence, despite the fact that she never actually sat in the front seat of a car. I also had a grandfather who had a bus driver licence. He did his driving test in cork city. The test consisted of pulling up at the top of st.patricks hill and the tester placing a match box on the bonnet of the car. My grandfather then had to drive from the top of the hill to the bottom without the match box falling off. when he got to the bottom , he was handed his licence.


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