Towing trailer with no lights?

Little_Missy

Hi all,

Hope you can help with this.

I have just bought a trailer and need to collect it, but it doesn't have any lights on it yet. I have been searching the web and the info I've found seems to say I can tow a trailer without lights during the day, so long as the towing vehicle's lights are visible.........does anybody know if this is correct?

Thanks in advance!

GAZ237

Aslong as the towing vehicles light are clearly visible you will be fine.

Otherwise pick up a lightboard from a car spares shop, Halfords ect. only around £20

Little_Missy

GAZ237 wrote: »

Aslong as the towing vehicles light are clearly visible you will be fine.

Otherwise pick up a lightboard from a car spares shop, Halfords ect. only around £20

Hi GAZ237,

That's great!........thanks for the fast response

paddedjohn

GAZ237 wrote: »

Aslong as the towing vehicles light are clearly visible you will be fine.

Otherwise pick up a lightboard from a car spares shop, Halfords ect. only around £20

Sorry but have you got a link to that because I think you are wrong. The trailer needs its own lights and directional indicators so it can be seen (for some reason some older trailers don't need these)

No trailer manufactured before 1st October 1990 is required by regulation 18 (of the vehicle trailer lighting laws ) to be fitted with any stop lamp or direction indicator whilst being drawn by a motor vehicle fitted with one or two stop lamps and two or more direction indicators if the dimensions of the trailer are such that when the longitudinal axes of the drawing vehicle and the trailer lie in the same vertical plane such stop lamps and at last one direction indicator on each side of the vehicle are visible to an observer in that vertical plane from a point 6 m behind the rear of the trailer whether it is loaded or not. (The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989)

GAZ237

I,m presuming its only a small box trailer and it sounds like she just wants to get it home.
My opinion was the police would not be bothered rather than what the law is.
I also said get a lightboard otherwise.

Your number plate will also need to be able to be seen from the rear.

forgotmyname

Get a lighting board, Sorted.

Lum

You're going to be fitting lights to it eventually, right? so just bring a lightboard as everyone else has already suggested. Secure it with bungee straps or something and then fix it properly when you get home.

Netwizard

forgotmyname wrote: »

Get a lighting board, Sorted.

I was just about to post this. For the sake of £20, you stay legal

Herzlos

It needs lights, because although you may be able to see the cars lights from some angles it won't be all of them, and the police are taking an increasingly dim view on this sort of thing.

You need lights anyway, so just pick up a light board, and you'll need a registration plate too so you're best to get that before collecting it, then you've got nothing to worry about