3500 kg limit

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Sun 27 Jul 2025 08:42
3500 kg limit - movilogo

I used to think that in normal category B license one can drive vehicles up to 3500 kg.

However, if the vehicle is EV, then weight limit goes up to 4250 kg!

www.gov.uk/driving-licence-categories

Some motorhomes are heavier than 3500 kg which currently requires C1 license (from 3500 to 7500 kg limit). I wonder whether this is bring EV versions of those motorhomes (when available) within car license limit.

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Sun 27 Jul 2025 09:30
3500 kg limit - badbusdriver

I used to think that in normal category B license one can drive vehicles up to 3500 kg.

Depends of when you passed your test, if before 1st Jan 1997, you can drive a 7.5t truck on a car license.

But for those who passed their test later, 3.5t was the heaviest you could drive. This could be a single vehicle, or the combined weight of one vehicle pulling a trailer.

If the allowable weight has been upped for an EV, this is most certainly because of the extra weight of a battery pack. This doesn't necessarily mean you can drive anything bigger than before though, as it is quite possible that an electric van with a MAM (maximum allowable mass, what used to be known as GVW - gross vehicle weight) 4250kg will have the same payload as a similar sized ICE van with a MAM of 3500kg.

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Sun 27 Jul 2025 10:00
3500 kg limit - bathtub tom

Depends of when you passed your test, if before 1st Jan 1997, you can drive a 7.5t truck on a car license.

Don't you lose that if you're over 70, unless you have an annual medical?

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Sun 27 Jul 2025 11:07
3500 kg limit - RT

Depends of when you passed your test, if before 1st Jan 1997, you can drive a 7.5t truck on a car license.

Don't you lose that if you're over 70, unless you have an annual medical?

Yes, ish - the C1 is forfeit at age 70 unless you take/pass the truckers medical every 3 years.

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Sun 27 Jul 2025 11:05
3500 kg limit - RT

I used to think that in normal category B license one can drive vehicles up to 3500 kg.

Depends of when you passed your test, if before 1st Jan 1997, you can drive a 7.5t truck on a car license.

But for those who passed their test later, 3.5t was the heaviest you could drive. This could be a single vehicle, or the combined weight of one vehicle pulling a trailer. .

Error correction needed - the 3500kg limit applicable to those passing their car test after 1st Jan 1997 applies to car or vehicle - they can also tow a trailer up to 3500 kg making a theoretical outfit of 7000 kg.

There was a short-lived period when the combined outfit was limited to 3500 kg but the was removed some years ago.

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Sun 27 Jul 2025 17:40
3500 kg limit - daveyjp
When an empty Transit EV is circa 2500kg add in three people at 200kg it doesn’t leave much for a load. Government therefore had no choice to increase the 3500kg limit for EV vans.
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Mon 28 Jul 2025 11:13
3500 kg limit - DieselMan1966

I passed my Class B as it was then in 1985 and could drive upto 7 1/2 tonnes + a trailer. When I was diagnoed with Diabetes and on Insulin, I was recstricted to 3500kg + trailer to the MAM of the towing vehicle, there was some chat recently to increase this limit for EEV's to (I think) 5,000 kg, I could be wrong in that, there could be some more information on the DVLA website

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