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83.—(1) No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a wheeled vehicle of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table drawing a trailer, subject to any exceptions which may be specified in that item in column 3.
(regulation 83(1))
1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|
Item | Class of vehicles | Exceptions |
1 | A straddle carrier | — |
2 | An invalid carriage | — |
3 | An articulated bus | — |
4 | A bus not being an articulated bus or a minibus | (a) 1 broken down bus where no person other than the driver is carried in either vehicle or (b) [F11 trailer] |
5 | A locomotive | 3 trailers |
6 | A motor tractor | [F21 trailer], 2 trailers if neither is laden |
7 | A heavy motor car or a motor car not described in item 1, 3 or 4 | 2 trailers if one of them is a towing implement and part of the other is secured to and either rests on or is suspended from that implement 1 trailer in any other case |
8 | An agricultural motor vehicle | (a) in respect of trailers other than agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances, such trailers as are permitted under items 5, 6, or 7 above, as the case may be; or (b) in respect of agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances— (i) 2 unladen agricultural trailers, or (ii) 1 agricultural trailer and I agricultural trailed appliance, or (iii) 2 agricultural trailed appliances |
(2) For the purposes of items 5, 6 and 7 of the Table—
(a)an unladen articulated vehicle, when being drawn by another motor vehicle because it has broken down, shall be treated as a single trailer; and
(b)a towed roller used for the purposes of agriculture, horticulture or forestry and consisting of several separate rollers shall be treated as one agricultural trailed appliance.
(3) No track-laying motor vehicle which exceeds 8 m in overall length shall draw a trailer other than a broken down vehicle which is being drawn in consequence of the breakdown.
[F3(4) For the purpose of this regulation, the word “trailer” does not include a vehicle which is drawn by a steam powered vehicle and which is used solely for carrying water for the purpose of the drawing vehicle.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 83 Table substituted (11.1.1990) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/2360), regs. 1, 4(a)
F2Words in reg. 83 Table substituted (11.1.1990) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/2360), regs. 1, 4(b)
F3Reg. 83(4) added (6.5.1987) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/676), regs. 1(2), 14
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