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.

 

[Barriesimpson]

I get your point, but people don't deliberately do something that scares them!

Unfortunately, they do, and they are amongst us.

 

[Markman]

Yes, but some of those extra rules etc are to stop the irresponsible killing the innocent.

I do have some sympathy because for companies there is only one law (but lots of guidance). Just the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 which is effectively just one line

"2.(1) It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees."

That's it, nothing more (except the same line but talking about their neighbours). It does mean that if anyone gets hurt "you" haven't done your duty, i.e. you are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent by demonstrating you have taken all measures necessary to stop your company from killing people.