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Smiffy

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hiluxman said:
In licence terms I think they should give 'c' category holders towing of upto 3.5t. Rather than the stupid 750kg.

I'm prity sure 3.5t behind a hgv is lot better than it behind a 4x4 or 3.5t truck.

I really dispise having to pay to do ce when I only want to put digger behind the lorry.

As with all our rules, there's no actual logic to them.
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I still don't understand why the change of licence is at 3.5t. I find little difference between driving a transit and a 7.5t whereas 7.5t to 18t is a huge difference
 
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Stroppymonkey

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hiluxman said:
In licence terms I think they should give 'c' category holders towing of upto 3.5t. Rather than the stupid 750kg.

I'm prity sure 3.5t behind a hgv is lot better than it behind a 4x4 or 3.5t truck.

I really dispise having to pay to do ce when I only want to put digger behind the lorry.

As with all our rules, there's no actual logic to them.
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One more reason I haven't bothered with C1 (yet). I want a bigger camper van one day so will do it at some point. Might as well do the C2 though instead I hear?
 
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Smiffy

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Stroppymonkey said:
One more reason I haven't bothered with C1 (yet). I want a bigger camper van one day so will do it at some point. Might as well do the C2 though instead I hear?
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£600 difference if doing CPC medical and everything all in one,I think £200 difference if no CPC or medical. Not a lot of there is a question in your mind as to whether you will ever upgrade further
 
CPS

CPS

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AusDave said:
Good grief, after reading the last days posts it gets even worse :eek:o_O

May god have mercy on you poor bast@rds 🙏
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The whole thing needs an over haul! We wife's American nephew laughed at me when when I told him that My Touareg and trailer was the largest truck and trailer combo I could "legally" drive :ROFLMAO: He was 20 at the time and could tow something like 12 ton behind his monster truck:LOL:
 
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AusDave

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CPS said:
The whole thing needs an over haul! We wife's American nephew laughed at me when when I told him that My Touareg and trailer was the largest truck and trailer combo I could "legally" drive :ROFLMAO: He was 20 at the time and could tow something like 12 ton behind his monster truck:LOL:
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Yes, we have seen the arrival of these ridiculously large American "pickup" trucks. Rarely are they used for work purposes. Usually they are seen in polished splendour, decked out with every custom option available, containing only one person and taking up the parking space of two cars.

Anyone with a license in Australia can drive one and with a 75mm ball anyone can tow a 4.5 tonne trailer full of heavy equipment with one. However their usual role is to either tow a massive pimped out caravan or a massive pimped out boat used twice a year.

Average Aussies can buy a Hilux, Ranger, (these are Australia's biggest selling vehicles by a big margin), Landcruiser, Nissan or Mitsubishi equivalent and have a 3.5 tonne towing capability on a normal license. However once again most of these vehicles are twin cab models used in the suburbs by cashed up retirees, or as a family daily driver to ferry the kids around or cashed up tradies who spare no expense on blinging out the work ute.
There are however some hardworking tradespeople who actually use these vehicles for what they were designed for :oops:

Because we don't have salt on our roads, second hand Hilux 4WD models are heavily sought out by trades apprentices to jack up to to monster truck heights with after market turbos you can hear whistling from miles away. These are taken out bush on weekends on barely visible tracks to test the limits before breaking of the suspension, chassis, diffs, motors etc. :rolleyes:
 
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Lancs Lad

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AusDave said:
Yes, we have seen the arrival of these ridiculously large American "pickup" trucks. Rarely are they used for work purposes. Usually they are seen in polished splendour, decked out with every custom option available, containing only one person and taking up the parking space of two cars.

Anyone with a license in Australia can drive one and with a 75mm ball anyone can tow a 4.5 tonne trailer full of heavy equipment with one. However their usual role is to either tow a massive pimped out caravan or a massive pimped out boat used twice a year.

Average Aussies can buy a Hilux, Ranger, (these are Australia's biggest selling vehicles by a big margin), Landcruiser, Nissan or Mitsubishi equivalent and have a 3.5 tonne towing capability on a normal license. However once again most of these vehicles are twin cab models used in the suburbs by cashed up retirees, or as a family daily driver to ferry the kids around or cashed up tradies who spare no expense on blinging out the work ute.
There are however some hardworking tradespeople who actually use these vehicles for what they were designed for :oops:

Because we don't have salt on our roads, second hand Hilux 4WD models are heavily sought out by trades apprentices to jack up to to monster truck heights with after market turbos you can hear whistling from miles away. These are taken out bush on weekends on barely visible tracks to test the limits before breaking of the suspension, chassis, diffs, motors etc. :rolleyes:
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Chill out mate😆😆 get up to Frazer with the mates and the eskys much?
 
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Monkeybusiness

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A guy on the KTM forum recently took delivery of this (it took more than a year from order to delivery) - surely you aren’t a proper Ozzy bloke unless you own one of these @AusDave?!
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