wish id brought a 7.5 ton instead of a 3.5 ton box

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i just dont like the feel of the smaller box
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i like a proper lorry lol
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anyone else feel like this ?
 
Take it round a supermarket car park at a busy time - you'll soon appreciate the smaller size!

Yes I do go shopping in my 8' wide 7.5 tonner and it's hell!
 
50/50! Loved the space inside a larger lorry with the living which I was spoilt with, but I couldnt drive it, which at 30yrs, meant my mother always drove me places and being reliant on others.

Now have a 3.5, love driving it and horse travels just as well in it as the bigger lorry & feels perfectly safe. Plus cheaper to run!!
 
Yes! Just sold my small box as didn't feel happy driving it with big horsey in it. Loved my 7.5t just couldn't afford the plating costs each year
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yes the plating is expensive
it was easier running the box up the road and getting a mot :}
i also had brakes done last week for mot cost me £100
bit of a difference to your £1500 ouch
 
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Take it round a supermarket car park at a busy time - you'll soon appreciate the smaller size!

Yes I do go shopping in my 8' wide 7.5 tonner and it's hell!

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i used to as well, those chicane things on the way into some of the carparks are a real challenge.
interesting point by OP, i've thought of going to a smaller box but i've had 7.5 tonners for yonks and i don't think i'd like being in a diddy one again...
 
I've been toying with the idea of a 3.5t vs 7.5t

I have a big horse so decided on taking my HGV and getting the bigger box
 
There is a middle ground - I used to have a 5 tonne lorry. Prefer my 7.5 for the motorway work though as it eats the miles. Think the test fee is around £75 now. It was about £50 and I think went up substantially last year - fortunately after mine was done. Have a look on Vosa's website.
 
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How much is the plating on a 7.5t please just bought one which will need doing in October so be good to save up

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Depends on what you need doing. The cost of test is about £70 I think. But repairs on top a bit like a car MOT you don't really know for sure until you take it. I have an old renault most it has cost me is £300.

Other things have run up at lot higher bills though


Prefer it to a smaller one
 
superstarjazz...just so you know, you have to book the test up to 8 weeks in advance cos they get v booked up. Mine has just been off the road for 2 months as o/h forgot... Also, you have to sit in the box & do the test yourself, switch things on & off, drive it onto the rolling road... And before they start, they give you a clipboard with an ENORMOUS list of things you could fail on...

Sorry if you knew all this already...it's not like a car where you can drop it off & then disappear shopping for a couple of hours then pop back. You have to queue up with all the big boys...dumper trucks, cement lorries etc.
 
Thank you so much no i didnt know i can see this is going to be a learning curve but at the moment well worth will let you know later in the year if it still is LOL
 
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jemima_too and kerilli... why on earth would you take a lorry shopping?!

you're barking mad...
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[/ QUOTE ]How else can you get all the carrots and apples home!Simplez If anyone cant get a quick booking. Book a test ,then phone the centralised number each day and ask if they have any cancelations . I find I can pretty well guarantee to get a test done within a few days .Take the cancelation and then cancel your original booking(no charge)
 
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jemima_too and kerilli... why on earth would you take a lorry shopping?!

you're barking mad...
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Well, you know how it is when you're packing, say, for holiday and you set off and realise you've forgotten something? Well last weekend we set off and I'd forgotten horses' feedbowls (we were away two nights so we picked up a couple of tubtrugs at a garden centre) and then I'd forgotten soap, deodorant, shampoo, mugs so we stopped off at a supermarket!

The other reason I used to take mine to Tesco every week was because daughter got off the train at Ely - so right next to Tesco car park - and then it was a mad dash to get her to her lesson, with the horse, on time. Hence being regularly in Tesco's car park.
 
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jemima_too and kerilli... why on earth would you take a lorry shopping?!

you're barking mad...
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[/ QUOTE ]How else can you get all the carrots and apples home!Simplez If anyone cant get a quick booking. Book a test ,then phone the centralised number each day and ask if they have any cancelations . I find I can pretty well guarantee to get a test done within a few days .Take the cancelation and then cancel your original booking(no charge)

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I learnt to chat up the "private" garages who have VOSA come out to them roughly one day a week. Sure it costs more but compared to the inconvenience of having the thing off the road for a couple of months. . . .
 
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i just dont like the feel of the smaller box
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i like a proper lorry lol
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anyone else feel like this ?

[/ QUOTE ] dont get a bigger lorry if you like solitude
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it seems once you have seats, table fridge, shower, toilet , its Hiya can come in?? have you got any coffee... oooh how does your shower work .. can I .... ?? sod off I just want to have a lie down
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Best thing to do for plating is have your annual service/ pre-plate check done by your local mechanic then take it to plating yourself as some people will charge standard labour rates to drive to the plating place and take it through. If nothing needs doing its quite reasonable price then. I've taken mine through plating before and they were quite pleasant at the plating place. Its very different to getting a car MOT though! If you do it, you will be in the lorry the whole time whilst they ask you to move things and they check. They go down into a pit underneath and talk to you via a loudspeaker!!
 
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