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Q Among my transport company's activities is the recovery of broken
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down small vehicles for which we use a Land-Rover with a twowheel trailer attached. The unladen weight of the LandRover does not exceed 30cwt and we feel justified in parking this vehicle with its trailer without lights in the way acceptable to the law when the occasion demands. We have been warned that we must leave the lights on when it is parked at night. Why should we have to do this?
A The parking of vehicles at night without lights is governed by the Road Vehicles Lighting (Standing Vehicles) (E xemptio n) (General) (No 2) Regulations 1972.
The facility to allow vehicles to be parked without lights is applicable only to goods vehicles of which the unladen weight does not exceed 30cwt. As a vehicle which can be considered to be "constructed or adapted for use for the carriage of goods or burden of any description," your Land-Rover may be held to be a "goods" vehicle and as its unladen weight does not exceed 30cwt it can take advantage of the relaxation of lighting requirements contained in the 1972 Regulations on its own.
However, with the trailer it becomes ineligible to do so. Regulation 3(d) of the 1972 Regulations specifically excludes vehicles with a trailer attached. In the Regulations "trailer" simply means a vehicle drawn by another vehicle.