Trailer Advice & Guides
Everything you need to know about towing, trailers, and the law. Straight from the bloke who knows, mate.
UK Trailer Weight Limits Explained (2025)
The maximum weight your trailer can be depends on your licence category, your vehicle's kerb weight, and whether the trailer is braked or unbraked. Getting it wrong can mean fines, penalty points, or…
Towing Mirrors UK Law: Do You Need Them?
Whether you need towing mirrors under UK law depends on your trailer's width compared with your car's, and how far you can already see down each side without them. Here's how the rules apply and when…
Attaching a Trailer to a Vehicle: Safe Hitching Guide UK
Step-by-step guide to attaching a trailer to a vehicle safely, covering coupling, breakaway cables, electrics, jockey wheels, nose weight and checks.
Driving With a Trailer: Speed Limits, Safety & Control UK
Essential guide to driving with a trailer in the UK, including legal speed limits, motorway rules, handling snaking, safe braking and reversing advice.
The Main Categories of LGV Licences Explained for towing
Learn the main LGV licence categories in the UK — C1, C, C+E, and what each allows you to drive or tow. Get road-ready with Brent and stay legal whilst towing.
Trailer Brake Requirements: UK Trailer Brake Rules Explained
Understand UK trailer brake requirements, from braked and unbraked trailer systems to breakaway cables, handbrakes, and legal safety trailer standards.
Type Approval & IVA Tests for Trailers being made in the UK
Understand UK trailer Type Approval and IVA tests — what they are, why they matter, and how to make sure your trailer is safe and road-ready.
Towbars and Towing Hitches: UK Vehicle & Trailer Categories
Understand how UK vehicle and trailer categories (M, N & O) affect your choice of towbars and towing hitches. Learn what you can legally tow and stay safe.
Trailer Lighting Requirements: Stay compliant with lights
Learn the UK trailer lighting requirements. Understand brake, fog, reverse, and indicator light rules for safe, legal towing. Stay compliant with Brent.
Trailer Number Plates: Learn UK trailer number plates laws
Learn the UK laws for trailer number plates - visibility, placement, and penalties for obscured trailer number plates. Stay road legal when towing with Brent.
Towing with A-Frames: Learn what the UK Law Actually Says
If you’ve ever walked around a motorhome show, you’ll know the question that never dies — “Can I tow my car behind my motorhome using an A-Frame?”
Horse Trailer Towing: UK Law & Safety Explained for towing
Is it illegal to tow with horse trailer doors open? Learn UK rules, welfare laws, and best practice for towing horses safely and securely.