Towing a trailer - legality/insurance

pburns

Investigating the legality of towing a double-axle trailer behind a Navara on a normal Cat B licence...

The Dept. of Transport website seems pretty clear on this:
http://www.transport.ie/roads/licensing/licence/index.asp?lang=ENG&loc=1836#Towing_a_Trailer

However my mate (who has an annoying habit of being right about these things) claims that the trailer has to be single axle and below a certain length. I've heard this before but can find nothing online to verify and I'm really unsure as to whether or not it's some sort of 'old wives tale'

Regarding the EB licence - anecdotal evidence suggests very few if any have taken this particular test...

mike65

I have an EB licence but the E came free so to speak.

Mike.

pburns

mike65 wrote: »

I have an EB licence but the E came free so to speak.

Mike.

Yeah, I think I may have had the opportunity to 'tick the box' years ago when getting a licence but failed to do so for some reason.

I've contacted the Dept. of Transport which have this info on their site.
http://www.transport.ie/roads/licensing/licence/index.asp?lang=ENG&loc=1836#Towing_a_Trailer
Got a reply that Uncle Gaybo and his panic-mongers over at the RSA now have responsibility for this. Bizarely the Dept of Environment(!) somehow received my message and replied telling me to contact my local motor tax office. But the bunch of wimin in there emm-ed and ah-ed and couldn't give me a straight answer either...

Dunno why I'm bothering, no-one else seems arsed. I reckon there's loads of people driving with big trailers and are probably not properly licenced (and therefore not insured...)

groupb

I was told by my insurance company , when I told them that my car had a towbar that I could only tow a single axle trailer.