I drove those at British Telecom and if you didn't know, they were classed as a HGV due to having a GVM over 3500kg. They could not be driven on a B category car licence. You needed a minimum of a C1 licence or higher C licence. If you are going to remove the cherry picker in order to bring it back under 3500kg and within the B category car licence , then you would need to submit a fresh weight declaration to DVSA. I believe this would require a specialist certificate confirming the new GVM before DVSA will then issue a new plate. If this isn't done, it will still be classed as a HGV even without the cherry picker as well as still falling under a higher HGV MOT category and a higher driving licence category . And you are correct, all existing BT vehicles were resprayed grey around 1992/3 when they changed from the old pre privatisation post office yellow. However, they didn't respray any vehicles when BT subsequently dropped the grey in favour of the new white in the late 90s. Instead, simply introducing the new white colour as older grey vehicles were replaced.
Yeah this is a gross weight of 4000kg so need a c1 license, I’m hoping to get it downplated with dvla to 3500kg to make life easier with mots etc. it was last owned by a crane company for agricultural use so it’s also registered as limited use taxation class too which means I need to get all this changed so I have a bit of a paperwork challenge on my hands 🤣
Haha 😂 nope litrally just going to get it back on the road and use it as a van for a little while. I wanted to get on the Capri project but the escort van turned into a bigger job than planned 🤣 so the transits definitely not going down that route. Hopefully have the escort van on the road for summer for some meets
Nice one Chris that was a good idea welding the plate on and using the hydraulic Jack it worked a treat 👍🏻 have you been doing some work on your escort van mate?
Thank you, I’ve done this before in the past using heavy duty chains which is the better option but it works and then simply cut them off and sand welds down so you can re use the drums, escort van is now on a rollover jig and just put a vid out, hoping to start on the welding this weekend ( I only get Sundays off to work on them 😅 )
I drove those at British Telecom and if you didn't know, they were classed as a HGV due to having a GVM over 3500kg. They could not be driven on a B category car licence. You needed a minimum of a C1 licence or higher C licence. If you are going to remove the cherry picker in order to bring it back under 3500kg and within the B category car licence , then you would need to submit a fresh weight declaration to DVSA. I believe this would require a specialist certificate confirming the new GVM before DVSA will then issue a new plate. If this isn't done, it will still be classed as a HGV even without the cherry picker as well as still falling under a higher HGV MOT category and a higher driving licence category . And you are correct, all existing BT vehicles were resprayed grey around 1992/3 when they changed from the old pre privatisation post office yellow. However, they didn't respray any vehicles when BT subsequently dropped the grey in favour of the new white in the late 90s. Instead, simply introducing the new white colour as older grey vehicles were replaced.
Yeah this is a gross weight of 4000kg so need a c1 license, I’m hoping to get it downplated with dvla to 3500kg to make life easier with mots etc.
it was last owned by a crane company for agricultural use so it’s also registered as limited use taxation class too which means I need to get all this changed so I have a bit of a paperwork challenge on my hands 🤣
Another great project on the horizon.👌👍
class job !!!
Thank you
'Im not gonna go mad with it' . . . . . . Thats what we all say Chris!!! 😃. . . . . Full resto inbound then?? 🤔
Haha 😂 nope litrally just going to get it back on the road and use it as a van for a little while. I wanted to get on the Capri project but the escort van turned into a bigger job than planned 🤣 so the transits definitely not going down that route. Hopefully have the escort van on the road for summer for some meets
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Nice one Chris that was a good idea welding the plate on and using the hydraulic Jack it worked a treat 👍🏻 have you been doing some work on your escort van mate?
Thank you, I’ve done this before in the past using heavy duty chains which is the better option but it works and then simply cut them off and sand welds down so you can re use the drums, escort van is now on a rollover jig and just put a vid out, hoping to start on the welding this weekend ( I only get Sundays off to work on them 😅 )
Wow what a job to do especially on your own, you are a legend, can't wait till the next video, good luck 👍
Thank you so much 😀