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The rules about towing a trailer or caravan with a car changed on 16 December 2021. Find out how the changes affect you.
You must register commercial trailers over 750kg gross weight and all trailers over 3,500kg gross weight before towing them through some European countries.
Check if you need to register a trailer to take it abroad, create an account to register your trailer, manage details of registered trailers.
Who needs to get permission from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), types of trailers that need permission and how to apply.
Towing trailers, caravans and horseboxes with a car, including the weight and size limits, and what licence you need to have
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.
Work out if you’re old enough or have the right kind of licence to tow a trailer from different kinds of vehicle
Headlamp, position lamps, daytime running lamps, stop lamps, indicators, hazard warning lamps, fog lamps, reversing lamps, lighting ‘tell-tales’, trailer electrical socket, electrical wiring and battery rules and inspection for car and passenger vehicle MOT tests.
Guidance and reports on the Department for Transport's trial of longer semi-trailers for articulated goods vehicles.
Apply for permission if you want to supply new large goods trailers to be used on the road.
Apply for a trailer over 3,500kg first used before 29 October 2012 to have its first MOT (annual test).
Information about what you can drive and tow depending on when you passed your test.
Rules on certificates you need to provide and details you need to record when selling small trailers and larger trailers that are exempt from annual testing.
How trailers are inspected when they're being approved under the Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) scheme to make sure they're safe to be used.
Apply for a trailer identification number (a 'ministry number') to be allocated to a new-build trailer if you'll be applying to use it on the road.
Statutory report into trailer safety.
You can tow some small trailers using motorbikes of 125cc or more
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