4250kg imminent?

[Jofang]

I picked up the text below today from www.camping-car.org, which is dated 21st December 2024. The original text is in French.

The format of the three-part pink driving license was inconvenient and specific to France and some European countries. The new format called credit card is therefore closer to the format of the national identity card and other useful cards (health card, blue card, etc.). The new format is supplemented with various security features including watermark photography and page background. Its falsification therefore becomes much more difficult.

The new credit card format is also much less sensitive to handling accidents: rain, tearing, creasing, etc.

Finally, this format and its content are now officially recognized in all countries of the European Union and many EU partner countries (Norway for example).

But it is above all the fact of finally being able to officially drive vehicles with a GVW of 4250 kg with a B license that interests motorhome drivers. We are still far from the 7 to 8 tons authorized in most states in the United States and Canada. But it is a significant step towards the generalization of new vehicles with greater usability.

 

[CAB96]

Any licence holder without grandfather rights or C1 can legally drive 4250kg if the engine is powered by HVO as it's an alternate power source. The 4th Directive will be ratified and in use long before 2028 both in the EU & the UK. We already have 3 of the 6 components in play, the first was zero tollerance for any drink driving, the 2nd was the age lowering to 18 for HGV & PCV, and the 3rd, the digital licence, begins this year. This year here in the UK the 50km restriction for 18 -20 year olds will also be lifted.

Did you read the post above?

The 4th Directive is likely to be implemented at least a year after publication, which isn't likely until late 25 / 2026 if the article is correct, and it sounds like the author is very close to the process.

And it's EU. Nothing to do with UK. In order to implement something similar, someone in the UK Parliament has to get the legislation off the ground and through the UK process.

I've not seen anything concrete on this for the UK, just speculation.

 

[The Artilleryman]

What I said about 6 pages ago.