BREAKDOWN SERVICES ( MOTORHOME ) HEIGHT, WIDTH, LENGTH RESTRICTIONS.
This story happened on: 17/12/2013
So you have your M/Home and you're ready to try it out on U.K roads, if you're one of the unfortunate as a colleague of mine once was, you’ll breakdown, not a problem he thought, I’ll call my breakdown service and inform them ( thinking his other vehicle would cover it ) and when they turned up his M/H was too long for their trailer.
How many of you have been caught out by this, I must admit I was until I phoned the RAC and they informed me that my T4 coachbuilt compass calypso was within their limits.
Most of the UK breakdown services do have restrictions the RAC, AA and Green Flag all have a weight limit of 3.5 metric tonnes but I don’t know about the others, The RAC has a length limit of 18 ft and Green Flags limit is 24 ft the AA as far as I can find out don’t advertise their vehicle length.
The RAC do a scheme named “ Arrival ” which covers motorhomes and caravans exclusively for Camping and Caravaning club members but again are there limits to the H, W, L of vehicles ?
Of course the only real way to find out if your vehicle is covered is to ring your breakdown service and ask them, I think it’s the first thing you should do when your vehicle is roadworthy,
DON’T LEAVE IT TO CHANCE.
Hope this helps
Paul
royandsharont
Motorhomer