As mentioned above 3500kg is the maximum weight on your licence.

Along wheel base van is fine unless its gvw is under 3500kg.

Thats why I quoted the gvw cant be over 3500kg any van over this should have a tacho fitted.

Gross train weight is maximum weight with a trailer and gross vehicle weight is 3500kg so u can drive it on a normal car licence.

cheers dan

B1 is not tricycles now!

B1 is now vehicles with 4 wheels up to 400kg unladen or 550kg if intended to carry goods. Tricycles are now motorbikes... and to drive my Morgan Super Sports Aer,o (car bodied, with a steering wheel) you need a full bike licence and can't take a test in it unless you are disabled.

OP is ok though, car test passers pre19 Jan this year are grandfathered and a replacement licence will show group A - limited to tricycles.

Europe has been meddling, 3rd Driving licence directive was the guilty legislation, although the UK will implement a derogation shortly allowing group B test passers to drive trikes provided they are over 21 (the absolute earliest you can do the full bike licence by).

Beware though, at least one official document I found on line this morning pre dates the changes, so is now wrong.

Edited by SlidingPillar on 04/11/2013 at 10:49

Midnight on 18th January this year (ie the start of the 19th)

There will be a revision to what can be driven on a car licence with a 19 Jan onwards car test pass (to take the derogation), and just perhaps, there will be a correcting document to the third EU driving licence directive as the calling a tricycle a motorbike was the result of someone fiddling and the committee that draws up such things, doesn't like that. But it will take years even if sucessful.

So B1 may yet re-encompass tricycles, not for the moment.

Edited by SlidingPillar on 04/11/2013 at 16:16