B+E Licence test

A very quick Google found this  http://www.krisblundellintensivedrivingcourses.co.uk/trailer-be-training-in-greater-manchester-and-lancashire/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAiNi0BRDaobaq3dKJhrwBEiQAyVThza7nZMzGt7QETg2_4yP-7oUgrWYPr3dEwOh2JesH0OgaAt5V8P8HAQ

Any use? It appears to vary quite a bit 

I have this on the radar aswell. We are just under the requirement for B+E but when/if we up the size of our car we i will need to upgrade my licence. Being as i'm used to towing now i would just do the test. The test alone cant be that much surely?! I'm
not sure where/how you do it either?

The test is just under £120 pounds but I'd advise doing some training as its a real driving test and you have to drive like you did on your original driving test "Mmirror  signal manoeuvre".

"both hands on the wheel" I was surprised at how many bad habits you actually have to get rid of before you are to test standard.

i did two half days training and the test the day after that cost me £400 all together but I passed with no problems at all.

well worth spending the money to know your safe and legal to tow.

As it is a different technique when driving an automatic compared to a manual, it has to be separate tests.

Another thing to remember is that you can't turn up to take the B+E with your caravan in tow . You have to use a properly ballasted trailer (which the trainers have ) and as the DVLA have moved the goalposts a couple of times since this test was introduced
it would be sod's law that you turned up with the wrong trailer ! Maybe seems a bit expensive but cheaper than a fine or having an insurance claim refused because you don't have the right categories or worse still having to leave your van at the side of a
road on your way to your holiday destination as you have been stopped by VOSA in a roadside check ! Kellysmum 

Another thing to remember is that you can't turn up to take the B+E with your caravan in tow . You have to use a properly ballasted trailer (which the trainers have ) and as the DVLA have moved the goalposts a couple of times since this test was introduced
it would be sod's law that you turned up with the wrong trailer ! Maybe seems a bit expensive but cheaper than a fine or having an insurance claim refused because you don't have the right categories or worse still having to leave your van at the side of a
road on your way to your holiday destination as you have been stopped by VOSA in a roadside check ! Kellysmum 

and if DVLA/Gov make the system that confusing there's bound to be people getting prosecuted when they thought they were legal. Just reading some of the web pages for the B&E courses and a few of them say that you can't tow anything more than a 750kg trailer
with the B&E. That's not true! eg
click here There's more to it than that.

Yes Mollysmummy it is very confusing, I had a work colleague who got points on his licence because he was stopped by the police for towing a compressor behind a Transit Truck despite the fact that he already had a Class 2  LGV licence and was training for
his Class 1 !  Didn't make sense but it was, and as far as I know, still is the law. Kellysmum  

As it is a different technique when driving an automatic compared to a manual, it has to be separate tests.

I disagree. The test is supposed to be testing your ability to tow a caravan/trailer ..... not operate the vehicle. I've already taken & passed a test to operate a manual vehicle.

It is the same with a car test. If you pass in an automatic you can only drive an automatic, it is a different technique for controlling the vehicle.

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It is the same with a car test. If you pass in an automatic you can only drive an automatic, it is a different technique for controlling the vehicle.

I know .... I passed my test in a manual. But you're digressing from the B&E bit

I'm not digressing at all! If there is a difference between dring an auomatic and a maual when solo, there has got to be a difference when towing!

The powers to be obviously think that it is easier driving an automatic, therefore they insist that if you pass in an automatic, drivers will find a manual more difficult.

Posters on here are complaining about the cost of acquire a B+E licence. The training organisation provides a trailer and tow vehicle for the training and test, some off road land to learn and practise the reversing and hitching up and unhitching of the
trailer (Part of the test) delivers the training and accompanies the candidate to the test. Out of this they also have to make a living. The prices quoted seem to be be very reasonable to me.

I personally think people having to take an additional test is a good thing,the only problem with it is it should be all trailer combinations regardless of weight and everyone no matter what there age and experience should be required to do it.

 .... the only problem with it is it should be all trailer combinations regardless of weight and ....

Even a small garden trailer doing a tip trip? 

 .... the only problem with it is it should be all trailer combinations regardless of weight and ....

Even a small garden trailer doing a tip trip? 

Yes because some of these drivers are the worst.

i to am big and old enough, also have passed a class 1 hgv test many years ago. Some who drive solo cars and deemed capable are not fit to be driving so age is nothing to go on

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