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i nI am considering using an ex Post Office FCK 2i-ton
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boxvan as a fitter's mobile workshop dealing with customers over a 15-mile radius.
Would I need the vehicle specially taxed? Must I obtain an operator's licence and will 1 need to keep a log book? A The designation of the vehicle you quote is probably relevant only to the Post Office and it is not understood whether the vehicle is 2i tons laden or unladen.
However, dealing with the question of operators' licensing first, Part V of the Transport Act 1968 makes it necessary for a person using a goods vehicle on a road for the carriage of goods for hire and reward or in connection with any trade or business carried on by him to hold an operators' licence.
Certainly, the vehicle would be being used in connection with both a trade and a business and the operator would, in that connection, need an operators' licence. Moreover, as Section 92 interprets "goods" to include goods or burden of any description and there is little doubt that the Licensing Authority would regard the equipment carried as "burden," this is an added factor in determining that an operator's licence would be required.
Normally, if the vehicle is subject to operators' licensing then the driver would need to observe the drivers' hours rules and keep a log book. However, if the vehicle you quote is not to be used outside a 25-mile radius of its operating centre and the driver does not drive more than 4 hours each day then in accordance with Regula. tion 12 (2) of the Drivers Hours (Goods Vehicle) (Keep. ing of Records) Regulation: 1970, there is no requiremeni to keep records.
The vehicle will have to bt taxed in accordance with tht scale laid down in Schedule 4 of the Vehicles (Excise) Adi 1971 as amended by the Chan. cellor of the Exchequer in hit Budget in April. Withoui knowing the unladen weigh1 of the vehicle, it is not pos. sible to tell you what the annual rate of duty would be.
QThe other day our breakdown vehicle had returnee from recovering a broken down unit which it hauler into the workshop. However because the yard was prett) full, the driver left his vehich just outside on the road Although it was not ereatini an obstruction, the police tolc me that it must not be lefi outside displaying tradi plates. Why is this, please? A The issue of trade plates it provided for in Section H (1) of the Vehicles (Excise; Act 1971. Here it is laid dowr that the holder of a trade licence shall not be entitle( by virtue of that licence t( keep any vehicle on a ma( if it is not being used thereon However, neither can yok leave it on the road withou trade plates unless it is taxe( and displays a current roa( fund licence disc. If it is no otherwise taxed and operate; only under trade plates then is no alternative but for it t( remain in your yard whet not being used to recove broken-down vehicles o otherwise deal with them.