B+E Licence test

Another thing to remember is that you can't turn up to take the B+E with your caravan in tow . You have to use a properly ballasted trailer (which the trainers have ) and as the DVLA have moved the goalposts a couple of times since this test was introduced it would be sod's law that you turned up with the wrong trailer ! Maybe seems a bit expensive but cheaper than a fine or having an insurance claim refused because you don't have the right categories or worse still having to leave your van at the side of a road on your way to your holiday destination as you have been stopped by VOSA in a roadside check ! Kellysmum 

Another thing to remember is that you can't turn up to take the B+E with your caravan in tow . You have to use a properly ballasted trailer (which the trainers have ) and as the DVLA have moved the goalposts a couple of times since this test was introduced it would be sod's law that you turned up with the wrong trailer ! Maybe seems a bit expensive but cheaper than a fine or having an insurance claim refused because you don't have the right categories or worse still having to leave your van at the side of a road on your way to your holiday destination as you have been stopped by VOSA in a roadside check ! Kellysmum 

and if DVLA/Gov make the system that confusing there's bound to be people getting prosecuted when they thought they were legal. Just reading some of the web pages for the B&E courses and a few of them say that you can't tow anything more than a 750kg trailer with the B&E. That's not true! eg click here There's more to it than that.

Another thing to remember is that you can't turn up to take the B+E with your caravan in tow . You have to use a properly ballasted trailer (which the trainers have ) and as the DVLA have moved the goalposts a couple of times since this test was introduced it would be sod's law that you turned up with the wrong trailer ! Maybe seems a bit expensive but cheaper than a fine or having an insurance claim refused because you don't have the right categories or worse still having to leave your van at the side of a road on your way to your holiday destination as you have been stopped by VOSA in a roadside check ! Kellysmum 

and if DVLA/Gov make the system that confusing there's bound to be people getting prosecuted when they thought they were legal. Just reading some of the web pages for the B&E courses and a few of them say that you can't tow anything more than a 750kg trailer with the B&E. That's not true! eg click here There's more to it than that.

Yes Mollysmummy it is very confusing, I had a work colleague who got points on his licence because he was stopped by the police for towing a compressor behind a Transit Truck despite the fact that he already had a Class 2  LGV licence and was training for his Class 1 !  Didn't make sense but it was, and as far as I know, still is the law. Kellysmum  

..... I had a work colleague who got points on his licence because he was stopped by the police for towing a compressor behind a Transit Truck despite the fact that he already had a Class 2  LGV licence and was training for his Class 1 !  Didn't make sense but it was, ...

Bizarre 

As it is a different technique when driving an automatic compared to a manual, it has to be separate tests.

I disagree. The test is supposed to be testing your ability to tow a caravan/trailer ..... not operate the vehicle. I've already taken & passed a test to operate a manual vehicle.

It is the same with a car test. If you pass in an automatic you can only drive an automatic, it is a different technique for controlling the vehicle.

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It is the same with a car test. If you pass in an automatic you can only drive an automatic, it is a different technique for controlling the vehicle.

I know .... I passed my test in a manual. But you're digressing from the B&E bit

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It is the same with a car test. If you pass in an automatic you can only drive an automatic, it is a different technique for controlling the vehicle.

I know .... I passed my test in a manual. But you're digressing from the B&E bit

I'm not digressing at all! If there is a difference between dring an auomatic and a maual when solo, there has got to be a difference when towing!

The powers to be obviously think that it is easier driving an automatic, therefore they insist that if you pass in an automatic, drivers will find a manual more difficult.

 ... drivers will find a manual more difficult.

 

If you already have a manual test from eons back you've proved that you can use 3 pedals. The B&E test is testing how you tow a trailer, not how you operate the tow car.

Posters on here are complaining about the cost of acquire a B+E licence. The training organisation provides a trailer and tow vehicle for the training and test, some off road land to learn and practise the reversing and hitching up and unhitching of the trailer (Part of the test) delivers the training and accompanies the candidate to the test. Out of this they also have to make a living. The prices quoted seem to be be very reasonable to me.

Posters on here are complaining about the cost of acquire a B+E licence. The training organisation provides a trailer and tow vehicle for the training and test, some off road land to learn and practise the reversing and hitching up and unhitching of the trailer (Part of the test) delivers the training and accompanies the candidate to the test. Out of this they also have to make a living. The prices quoted seem to be be very reasonable to me.

maybe, but it's £600 that most people here didn't need to fork out as their licence already covered them ...... and I doubt that a new driver complete with a £600 B&E licence is an better on the road than those of that just took their time when they first hooked up a trailer/caravan ... apart from reversing it