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Here's one for you, my understanding is gritting trucks come under agricultural usage ie no tax, mot and use red diesel etc so surely if servicing and maintenance of a vehicle to keep it safe for the driver and other road users is essential the afore mentioned MOT must be a requirement as a basic minimum
Anyone got any ideas / advice before I dip my toes into the situation for which I have little knowledge
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A great many of these trucks have a standard chassis and interchangeable body arrangements to enable conversion to gritter /plough configuration in Winter. ( A bit like Thunderbird 2).
The question then becomes irrelevant. It is a truck, occassionally converted to a gritter. Some derogation applies to driver hours for gritting activity.
Not at all sure about the red diesel aspect, but I am sceptical.
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If the vehicle is a dedicated one then it is tax and O-licence exempt and can run on red diesel, although a tax disc must be displayed at zero cost. There are some crown vehicles that do not have to display the tax disc but have to display the exemption certificate. Some would say that these types of equipment are classed as 'plant'.
Interchangeable body vehicles come under the O-licence and are taxable, run on Derv.
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My concern is ensuring safety of the driver which an MOT would give more surety that if an MOT was not done, and records of maintenance were not available. Despite it's tax other exemptions it appears to me in an accident the first thing brought up would be road worthiness of the vehicle and MOT would help on that,
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Dedicated gritting vehicles are exempt annual roadworthy vehicle test under Schedule 2 of the Plating and Licensing Regulations
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Martin Gray wrote:Dedicated gritting vehicles are exempt annual roadworthy vehicle test under Schedule 2 of the Plating and Licensing Regulations I'd be interested to know the logic behind this, they are used on the road, are big and potentially hazardous - perhaps more so than even cars? Just to make clear, not doubting you at all that they are exempt, just wonder why? thanks. Steve
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A great number of vehicles are exempt the MOT - many being classified under the Special Types General order. This vehicles can only be used for specialist purposes and are restricted in other ways.
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Ahh, but to be VERY controversial - you do not always have to have a valid MOT to legally drive on the road with any vehicle, nor do you have to have a supervising driver when driving any vehicle with a provisional licence.
OK, OK, I know that we are odd - but all the above is true on the outer islands of Shetland - and likely other remote islands around the coast!
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