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    Posted: 26 Dec 12 at 9:03pm
you need a b+e if the trailer weighs more than 750kgs...

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if the car and trailer weigh more than 3500kgs combined!!!

shouldn't and doesn't really bother 'dinghy' sailors

buts its great watching caravans getting pulled on the A55 in north Wales in the summer!!!
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Indespension units just seem to be a way of connecting a wheel to a chassis. They dont do much going up and down. The best trailers are those old ones with a transverse leaf spring.......except when I had the spring break on the M1.
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with most dinghies you should be OK with a triple...
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Originally posted by MerlinMags

Tommo, since you passed your test recently you can't tow anyway! You need a seperate test.

Old fogeys like me who passed their (normal) driving test in the 90s got trailer endorsements as standard.
 
people with post 96 cat B licences CAN tow as unbraked trailers  do not come under B+E , show me a a single or even double dinghy trailer that weighs more than 750 Kg loaded ...
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hmm, I suspect "impervious to weather" != "salt water immersion proof"

I agree with other posts that standard indespension units are way overated for weight and have way inadequate travel for towing racing boats. But they are *so* cheap that you'd never sell trailers with decent suspension...

Edited by JimC - 07 Dec 12 at 3:15pm
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Originally posted by Noah

Someone will have to define 'within the trailer'. Ribs & powerboats are generally launched off their trailers - not separate trollies like us dinghy types habitually use. It is a requirement for them to be able to remove the electrical components entirely, before they're completely ruined by immersion.

The way it works is the lighting board arms slide in and out within the trailer base and so is removable, you just pull it out, then you can launch. Anyway with an LED trailer board it probably wouldn't matter anyway being "impervious to weather".
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Our industrial kit runs on nothing more than glorified indespension units and that is at 3000kg,

The trouble is, unladen it just doesn't move and bounces instead
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Agreed,
tbh the old leaf sprung trailers seem better,
we still have indespension units ( of types) on our Sonata tailer and thats rated to 2.3 tons
dinghy ones dont seem to even move
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Smart Cars do at least have suspension that works, unlike the rubbish that seems to be universal on combi trailers.
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Originally posted by Noah

On the topic of wheels, if it is acceptable for Smart cars and the like weighing what? 600Kgs+? to run around on tiny wheels then what is the problem with dinghy trailers. Fitness for purpose has to be the test & I suspect that the regulators are thinking caravans & box / agricultural trailers.
Lastly, who is to say when a trailer - without markings - was made? And who is going to enforce this? There's no traffic police to speak of anymore...


My partners Smart car actually has very wide wheels on the back to spread the load
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