Legalities of transporting an outboard in your car!

[Zagato]

I thought you were not allowed to carry engined machinery in your vehicles e.g chainsaws, hedgers etc unless it was secured in the back of a pick up due to fumes. If this is so, it might be illegal to stick your outboard in the boot!

I hope not

 

[maby]

never heard of any such restriction, but I guess it is possible. It seems to be regularly broken.

 

[Birdseye]

Just how is dibble going to see through your boot lid?

 

[maby]

Just how is dibble going to see through your boot lid?

Not many boots around these days - mostly hatchbacks and estate cars.

 

[rogerboy]

ye we all have boot lids duuuu.

Just how is dibble going to see through your boot lid?

 

[born2sail61]

i must be a real rebel,carry mine on back seat.strapped in with seatbelt and less likely to get scratched or clouted by an errant tool box or other hardware.

 

[dartmoor]

I thought you were not allowed to carry engined machinery in your vehicles e.g chainsaws, hedgers etc unless it was secured in the back of a pick up due to fumes. If this is so, it might be illegal to stick your outboard in the boot!

I hope not

I don't think the EC has got there yet - altho I am sure commissioners are drafting the regs now! Now really having a petrol engine is quite dangerous - so that's next....

 

[Danbury]

I bet they won't ban it... but you'll need a special license (for a fee), after a training course (for a fee), renewable every year (for a fee)...

 

[rotrax]

AFAIK there is a limit to the amount of petrol carried in cars, but not petrol powered equipment.

 

[dylanwinter]

this man kn kows

AFAIK there is a limit to the amount of petrol carried in cars, but not petrol powered equipment.

this man knows - he has spent more nights sleeping with his motorbike in a van than he has with his wife

D

 

[rotrax]

this man knows - he has spent more nights sleeping with his motorbike in a van than he has with his wife

D

It was usually Motorbikes-I got more start money that way........................And the van was much more cost effective than Hoteling it-unless someone else picked up the tab!

 

[alan_d]

I thought you were not allowed to carry engined machinery in your vehicles e.g chainsaws, hedgers etc unless it was secured in the back of a pick up due to fumes.

Presumably you must have some foundation for this belief. Would you like to share it with us?

 

[Tiddler]

I've been doing that for years in an estate car and a succession of hatchbacks. Plod have never bothered me about doing so. I would be interested to find out if it is illegal. There must be some police men on this website, or somebody who knows one if they don't want to admit it.

Tiddler

 

[padge]

You can transport upto 333 litres of petrol as a "small" load but you must keep driving because you can't store that much at home

 

[Lakesailor]

I thought you were not allowed to carry engined machinery in your vehicles e.g chainsaws, hedgers etc unless it was secured in the back of a pick up due to fumes. If this is so, it might be illegal to stick your outboard in the boot!

I hope not

It's a novel concept.

 

[Dave-Shafa]

I had my outboard in the car and smoked as usual.
Perfectly safe.

 

[Zagato]

Presumably you must have some foundation for this belief. Would you like to share it with us?

Yes I used to carry machinery around for work in my pick up Land Rover e.g. chain saws, hedgers, blowers etc then I bought a new Station Wagon Land Rover where the 'boot' part is in the same space as the passengers. I seem to remember being told that any petrol engined machinery can only now be transported in a space seperated from passengers!

 

[Jassira]

I thought you were not allowed to carry engined machinery in your vehicles e.g chainsaws, hedgers etc unless it was secured in the back of a pick up due to fumes. If this is so, it might be illegal to stick your outboard in the boot!

I hope not

I think that's one of drivers behind the Governments efforts to maintain whole life sentences

 

[Lakesailor]

Yes I used to carry machinery around for work in my pick up Land Rover e.g. chain saws, hedgers, blowers etc then I bought a new Station Wagon Land Rover where the 'boot' part is in the same space as the passengers. I seem to remember being told that any petrol engined machinery can only now be transported in a space seperated from passengers!

Is the source of that an insurance requirement or HSE advice or some such?

 

[johnphilip]

Work or Play

Yes I used to carry machinery around for work in my pick up Land Rover e.g. chain saws, hedgers, blowers etc then I bought a new Station Wagon Land Rover where the 'boot' part is in the same space as the passengers. I seem to remember being told that any petrol engined machinery can only now be transported in a space seperated from passengers!

There is a world of difference between what may have to be risk assessed in a work situation from what is banned by legislation for the individual.
Suggesting the former is the latter is ........................ well, unfortunate.