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Q A number of questions have appeared
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recently about the speed limits and MoT testing of Land-Rovers. Could you please explain all the necessary information about the regulations concerning these vehicles?
AThese types of vehicle are generally classified as dual-purpose. Before trying to find which regulations apply it is necessary to ensure that the vehicle is a dual-purpose type in accordance with the regulations. These are defined as follows: A vehicle constructed or adapted for the carriage both of passengers and of goods or burden of any description, being a vehicle of which the unladen weight does not exceed 2 tons and which either has four-wheel drive or satisfies the following conditions:—
(a) the vehicle must be permanently fitted with a rigid roof, with or without a sliding panel: (b) the area of the vehicle to the rear of the driver's seat must: (i) be permanently fitted with at least one row of transverse seats (fixed or folding) for two or more passengers, and those seats must be properly sprung or cushioned and provided with upholstered backrests, attached either to the seats or to a side or the floor of the vehicle: and (ii) be lit on each side and at the rear by a window or windows of glass or other transparent material having an area or aggregate area of not less than 2 sq. ft. on each side and not less than 120 sq. in. at the rear: (c) the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and backrests of the row of transverse seats satisfying the requirements specified in sub-paragraph (0 of the last foregoing paragraph (or, if there is more than one such row of seats, the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the backrests of the rearmost such row) must, when the seats are ready for use, be not less than one-third of the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the rearmost part of the floor of the vehicle.
If your vehicle meets these regulations and is therefore officially a dual-purpose type it becomes exempt from the MoT heavy goods vehicle testing and plating scheme, but remains within the category of vehicles to be tested under the motor car annual test scheme if three or more years old; it is freed from the goods vehicle speed limit and is only restricted to normal road speed limits and the overall 70 mph maximum. It must be taxed at the goods vehicle rate if goods are carried, or at the E25 private car rate, whichever is the higher.
Dual-purpose vehicles not exceeding 12cwt unladen can be taxed at the goods rate if the operator gives an undertaking that they will never be used privately. The insurance should include business use to cover goods. If the vehicle is under 30cwt unladen weight no C licence is required, and, although the drivers' hours regulations apply, no log sheets are required.
If your vehicle does not come in the dualpurpose category and is used for carrying goods it must be classified as a goods vehicle, in which case the annual MoT heavy goods vehicle test applies if it is over 30cwt unladen and a C licence will be required; also drivers' records of work must be kept. If it is under 30cwt unladen it must be tested under the motor car testing scheme and no C licence will be required.