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Limited trade places and schedule 13 Road Traffic Act 1960
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TWO correspondents have recently raised the question as to whether paragraph 10 of the 13th Schedule to the Road Traffic Act 1960 permits goods to be carried under a Limited Trade Licence if they are being removed to a place of safety from a disabled vehicle.
In an article on Limited Trade Plates (CM, August 2 1968) I explained that with minor exceptions goods cannot be carried with this type of plate. Regulation 40 of the Motor Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 1964 expressly forbidding it.
The 13th Schedule to the Road Traffic Act 1960 lists cases where carriers' licences (i.e. A, B or C licences) are not required and paragraph 10 states that such licences are not required when a vehicle is towing a disabled motor vehicle or when it is removing goods from such a vehicle to a place of safety. There is no reference in this paragraph to limited trade licences and as the paragraph is only making a concession with regard to carriers' licences I do not think that any relaxation of the regulations concerning trade plates is intended or can be assumed.
Scutt v Luxton (1960) 48 LGR 129 supports this view for in this case it was held that it was not permissible, even with General Trade Plates, for a breakdown lorry, after towing a disabled vehicle to a repair depot, to carry that vehicle's load to its des.ination.The Regulations concerning General Trade Plates are far less restrictive than those governing Limited ones so there would seem to be little chance of an offence not being committed if this work was done with the limited licence.