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Checks you should carry out every time you tow a trailer, caravan or horsebox with a car, to make sure you're towing safely and legally.
Check the tariff classification for new pneumatic rubber tyres of a kind used on motor cars, buses or lorries, and trailers.
Report you’ve changed a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) or trailer chassis, weight, tyres or brakes (a ‘notifiable alteration’) or change the weight you can carry.
Rules about the labels that tyres must display to give information about fuel efficiency, wet grip and noise classification.
Towing trailers, caravans and horseboxes with a car, including the weight and size limits, and what licence you need to have
You must register commercial trailers over 750kg gross weight and all trailers over 3,500kg gross weight before towing them through some European countries.
Get help to classify various types of vehicles such as mobility scooters, dumpers and utility vehicles, all-terrain vehicles and e-bikes for import and export.
Check if you need to register a trailer to take it abroad, create an account to register your trailer, manage details of registered trailers.
Send test and certificate forms using the technical application submission (TAS) service, including first time tests, notifiable alterations and replacing plating or test documents
Who needs to get permission from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), types of trailers that need permission and how to apply.
The rules about towing a trailer or caravan with a car changed on 16 December 2021. Find out how the changes affect you.
Guidance and reports on the Department for Transport's trial of longer semi-trailers for articulated goods vehicles.
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