# The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, Regulation 83: Number of trailers

Extent: E+W+S

(1) No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road a wheeled vehicle of a class specified in an item in column 2 of the Table drawing a trailer, subject to any exceptions which may be specified in that item in column 3.
TABLE
(regulation 83(1))
1
2
3
Item
Class of vehicles
Exceptions
1
A straddle carrier
—
2
An invalid carriage
—
3
An articulated bus
—
4
A bus not being an articulated bus or a minibus
(a) 1 broken down bus where no person other than the driver is carried in either vehicle or
(b) 1 trailer
5
A locomotive
3 trailers
6
A motor tractor
1 trailer,
2 trailers if neither is laden
7
A heavy motor car or a motor car not described in item 1, 3 or 4
2 trailers if one of them is a towing implement and part of the other is secured to and either rests on or is suspended from that implement
1 trailer in any other case
8
An agricultural motor vehicle
(a)in respect of trailers other than agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances, such trailers as are permitted under items 5, 6, or 7 above, as the case may be; or
(b)in respect of agricultural trailers and agricultural trailed appliances—
(i)2 unladen agricultural trailers, or
(ii)1 agricultural trailer and I agricultural trailed appliance, or
(iii)2 agricultural trailed appliances
(2) For the purposes of items 5, 6 and 7 of the Table—
(a) an unladen articulated vehicle, when being drawn by another motor vehicle because it has broken down, shall be treated as a single trailer; and
(b) a towed roller used for the purposes of agriculture, horticulture or forestry and consisting of several separate rollers shall be treated as one agricultural trailed appliance.
(3) No track-laying motor vehicle which exceeds 8 m in overall length shall draw a trailer other than a broken down vehicle which is being drawn in consequence of the breakdown.
(4) For the purpose of this regulation, the word “trailer” does not include a vehicle which is drawn by a steam powered vehicle and which is used solely for carrying water for the purpose of the drawing vehicle.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/83 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/regulation-83
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