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broken-doii.n vehicles with a vehicles "ambulance" but I am confused as to why a drawbar trailer with a dolly is not strictly legal hut using an ambulance i,s — surely the twotrailer ruling applies in both cases? WO is if legal to tow an ambulance to the scene of a breakdown when it does not comply with C and U Regulations about trailers?
A Regulation 136 of the Motor Vehicle (Construction and Use) Regulations allows two trailers to be drawn by a motor car or heavy motor car where one of the trailers is a towing implement and the other is a vehicle part of which is secured to and either rest on or is suspended from the towing implement.
Regulation 3 ( I) defines a towing implement as "any device on wheels designed for the purpose of enabling a motor vehicle to draw another vehicle.., in such a manner that .. . some but not all of the wheels on which the other vehicle normally runs are raised off the ground".
A dolly cannot therefore be classed as a towing implement because it does not raise any of the wheels of the vehicle with which it is being used off the ground. On the other hand a vehicle ambulance does just that.
Regulation 4 (12) exempts a towing implement from certain of the Regulations which apply to trailers when it is being drawn by a motor vehicle and not attached to another vehicle if it is not being drawn during the hours of darkness and not at a speed exceeding 20 mph.