http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Converted-Coach-Race-Transporter_W0QQitemZ220459015877QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item3354619ec5&_trksid=p328 6.c0.m14


Passed my car test in 1980

Italianjobtastic!

Dunno about the licence, but can I borrow it for my summer holidays?? Please, please!

Mike

you should be able to drive on a car licence as long there is no more than 9 seats over wise you need a d licence i know because i drive coaches for a living. i recomend getting training first because they don not handle like a car just to be on the safe side. but if you are use to drive trucks you will be fine

You should be able to drive up to 7.5 tons assuming you have the C1 class on your license and if it has been reclassified as a light goods vehicle.

If it is still a PSV then you want to read this
dvla page as it looks like for something that old providing it does not carry more than 8 passengers you are fine.

Why not ask the seller what license he has?

Edit - Beaten to it, and by a more authoritative source too

[Edited on 30/7/09 by Toltec]

Cheers for the quick replies guys.

Just thinking ahead really as I plan move to Malta in a few years and am trying to work out the best way to get the Viento and all my other stuff over there.

[Edited on 30/7/09 by Snuggs]

if you're not being paid to drive it, and you're not charging people to be passengers, i 'think' you can drive on a car licence

have a look here
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/WhatCanYouDriveAndYourObligations/DG_4022619

complete waste of money, yes it's nice, but no MOT no Tax, how you going to move it, you can't tow it (has to be street legal.)


tony

I think because of the load space its classed as a dual purpose vehicle, different from coaches and motorhome.

from DfT

Bi-purpose vehicle means a vehicle constructed or adapted for the carriage of both goods and not more than 8 passengers, not being a vehicle to which the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Great Britain) Regulations apply (i.e. not a passenger car, dual purpose vehicle, motor caravan or motor ambulance). Bi-purpose vehicles are thus subject to goods vehicle type approval, or if up to 3.5T gross weight, alternatively SVA.

Dual-purpose vehicle means a vehicle constructed or adapted for the carriage both of passengers and of goods or burden of any description, where the unladen weight does not exceed 2,040 kilograms, and which satisfies the following conditions as to construction:

•the vehicle must be permanently fitted with a rigid roof, with or without a sliding panel;
•the area to the rear of the driver's seat must -

•be permanently fitted with at least one row of transverse seats (fixed or folding) for 2 or more passengers and those seats must be properly sprung or cushioned and provided with upholstered back-rests; attached either to the seats or to a side or the floor of the vehicle; and
•be lit on each side and at the rear by a window or windows of glass or other transparent material having an area or aggregate area of not less than 1,850 square centimeters on each side and not less than 770, square centimeters at the rear; and
•the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the back-rests of the row of transverse seats satisfying the requirements specified in sub-paragraph b(i) above or, if there is more than one such row of seats, the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the back-rests of the rearmost such row must, when the seats are ready for use, be not less than one-third of the distance between the rear most part of the steering wheel and the rear most part of the floor of the vehicle.

Paul

[Edited on 30/7/09 by Cousin Cleotis]

there's some exception to 'classic busses' which allows you to drive them on a car license. i can't find anything about that now though