Q I wish to bay a small mobile crane X for
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removing engines and lifting other Ings on several different sites which are me miles apart. Could this vehicle be 'xed for ES a year; could I use rebated el; and do any regulations restrict the Stance it is allowed to travel?
Also, is a person without an hgv driving 7ence allowed to drive the vehicle, and is subject to DoE testing?
A mobile crane can be taxed at £5 per year (Part II Schedule 3 of the ehicles Excise Act 1971).
Section 4 of that schedule defines a obile crane as "a vehicle designed and instructed as a mobile crane which is ;ed on public roads only as a crane in inflection with work carried out on a site the immediate vicinity or for the purpose • proceeding to or from a place where is to be used as a crane". When it is so oceeding it must neither carry nor haul iy load except such as is necessary for its opulsion or equipment.
You may use rebated fuel for both 'erating the crane and transferring it from :e to site if it is licensed at the reduced te under the 1971 Act. The terms of is are set out in HM Customs and tcise Notice No. 75 obtainable from them De of charge. There is no restriction on stance.
Hgv licence requirements are governed 7 the unladen weight. If this does not .ceed 3 tons then no hgv licence is quired.
Plating and testing is governed by the nods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Dgulations 1971. Exemption from plating .c1 testing for mobile cranes is contained in tragraph 3 of Schedule 2 of these Dgulations.