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Q We run a commercial breakdown vehicle — unladen weight of
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5 tons — fitted with an hydraulic jib. At present we use the vehicle on trade plates and wonder if we could tax this vehicle as a mobile crane, thus dispensing with the use of plates.
Also, if this vehicle were taxed as a mobile crane would it be possible for our mechanics, who do not hold an hgv licence, to take the required test in this vehicle?
A A mobile crane is defined in the third
Schedule to the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971: "Mobile Crane means a vehicle designed and constructed as a mobile crane; and (a) is used on public roads only, either as a crane in connection with work being carried on, on a site in the immediate vicinity or for the purpose of proceeding to and from a place where it is to be used as a crane; and (b) when so proceeding neither carries nor hauls any load other than such as is necessary for its propulsion or equipment We expect you use your breakdown vehicle for recovering lorries which have broken down or which have been involved in an accident, and this use does not fall within the above definition, primarily because you carry or haul a load.
Your drivers who do not hold a driver's hgv licence should take their test on a goods vehicle of the appropriate class which is licensed in the ordinary way. They cannot take a test on a vehicle bearing trade plates.