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Jim Duckworth, editor of Road Transport Law and head of Transport Law Services. Waking, Surrey. helps solve your legal problems in this regular column. Write to Commercial Motor Any Questions, Room H203. Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton. Surrey SM2 SAS or phone CM's legal hotline (0181 652 3689) giving your name and number. Duckworth's answers are an interpretation of the law and should not be seen as definitive.
Driving licence complications
I was driving my Ford Cargo 7.5-tonne breakdown truck when police stopped me. The truck was carrying a car on t he platform and towing another on the spectacle lift.
I passed a driving test about 10 years ago and have a Category B licence.
The police said my licence did not cover me while towing the car on the spectacle lift because the total exceeded 8.25 tonnes—and because I did not have a licence, I could not be insured.
I have now received summonses for these offences.
I know a lot of drivers who do the same kind of work as me on a car driver's licence. Were the police right ?