Petition to increase weight limits for drivers of MHs:
The petition runs out tomorrow and as of today at this time the total is 11,194 and unlikely to move substantially further by tomorrow I would think. Actually my model made in February based on average rate of increase then was over 12,000 but it flatlined quite a bit despite it being raised on here and elsewhere on other multiple social media platforms.
That figure is depending on your source of registered MHs around 3% of them. You can check your own area's constituency to see how many signatures it got. The highest in any one constituency I could find was 58 out of 99,000 but there may be higher ones. A very rough average (mode) appears to be about 25 signatures per constituency of about 95,000. My own was 21 out of 96,600 or 0.02%.
The map is here
Although the end date is tomorrow the government posted their reply early, on the 23rd March assuming there wouldn't be a last minute rush I suppose, the actual reply when read in full is almost what I predicted either on the earlier or the original thread, but the headline reply is
Government responded
This response was given on 23 March 2026
The DfT keeps driving licence rules under review. The Government has not yet assessed the potential benefits of allowing Category B licence holders to drive motorhomes weighing up to 4,250kg
The full reply is here
Interestingly the EU changes that posters talked about in the other threads would mean training and/or a test and not be automatic so perhaps they have safety concerns as well as myself as indicated by the texts in bold?
This change would not be automatic. EU Member States must require either at least seven hours of training, a test (which does not have to be a full driving test), or both. Any training or test must cover key safety topics set out in the Directive. There is no requirement for drivers to have held their licence for a minimum number of years before driving a motorhome
Although the EU did/would allow electric vehicles up to 4250 Kg it required training:
In 2015, when the UK was still an EU Member State, countries began negotiating a temporary exemption to support the uptake of low and zero emission vehicles. This allowed Category B licence holders to drive vans weighing up to 4,250kg (instead of 3,500kg), without needing a medical, a Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC), or to follow drivers’ hours rules. Drivers were required to complete five hours of training
In the UK this was not deemed necessary:
In June 2025, the UK Government extended these rules through the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025. This change allowed all zero emission vehicles to be driven on a Category B licence, removed the training requirement, and permitted these vehicles to tow a trailer
Personally I think that was to allow low mileage and/or stop/start delivery vans whose drivers probably/perhaps already had training to be used more which makes sense for economic and green concerns, and not ICE MHs which makes sense to me as well as I described somewhere.
So I have to say that even within MH owners the petition did not get the required support, or in fact very low support of 3%. Nationally the petition was only about 0.02%. I think the government has not taken risks with safety based on this low support and I endorse that view, while equally I endorse the view that perhaps more careful detailed research is needed before any further changes:
The Department for Transport published its Road Safety Strategy in January 2026. It was not possible to consider alignment with the new EU Directive before the Strategy was published.
The UK is already committed to introducing a digital driving licence. However, other changes in the Directive require careful consideration before decisions are made on whether to adopt them. The Government has not yet assessed the potential merits of changing Category B licence rules for motorhomes.
Any future changes to driving licence law would be subject to public consultation and a full assessment of their impacts.
Department for Transport.
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Thanks @Lutz but if you read carefully I never said it did or didn't apply to all MHs so I assume you're posting for further clarity about the EU situation?
I didn't include the full reply but if anyone reads it this is clearly stated as you say but I'll post it below although I'm not sure what it has to do with the outcome of a petition for UK drivers? I only posted certain parts that other posters had talked out, that is the safety considerations which some thought were not relevant and how the UK would follow suit, which it is not for the present.
Under the Fourth Driving Licence Directive, EU countries will be able to allow Category B licence holders to drive motorhomes (referred to as “motor caravans” in the Directive) weighing up to 4,250kg. This would apply to petrol, diesel, and zero emission vehicles. This reflects the fact that many motorhomes exceed 3,500kg but weigh less than 4,250kg, and that some countries already allow heavier vans to be driven on a Category B licence.
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All sounds good to me. Germany does whatever the latest legalistic Directive tells them to do. We ignore it.
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Not sure where you get that from, ET.
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