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UK-specific guidance on weights, payloads, driving licences, safety checks, and legal responsibilities for motorhome drivers.
Latest storyMotorhome Safety, Weight & Licensing
The plate on a category B motorhome is 3,500 kg, so what you can carry is whatever the van leaves over. We put the makers' own running-order and payload figures side by side, run the family-of-four sum, and list the questions to ask on any stand at the NEC.
Jasper11 min read
Motorhome Safety, Weight & Licensing
Felix11 min readBailey's new five-model Ascent range puts an eight-speed automatic Ford Transit motorhome on a category B licence, but payload runs from 618 kg down to 340 kg. We work the sums from Bailey's own figures to show which layouts carry four people and which are really for two.
Motorhome Safety, Weight & Licensing
Iris12 min readPössl's new X-Line flagship is a near-7 m Mercedes Sprinter 4x4 campervan plated at 4.1 tonnes. We look at what Pössl has actually built, whether it is coming to the UK, who is legally allowed to drive it, and what the weight and height mean on British roads.
Motorhome Safety, Weight & Licensing
Rowan11 min readA standard car licence in Great Britain now covers zero-emission vehicles up to 4.25 tonnes, and an electric motorhome concept called EVOLVE at Caravan Salon 2026 was built around exactly that. Here is what the rule actually says, what it leaves out, and whether it changes anything for you yet.
Motorhome Safety, Weight & Licensing
Martha12 min readEura Mobil's new short Xtura pairs a four-wheel-drive Mercedes base with an electrically raised roof tent and insulated inner tent. We go through the beds, the weights, the C1 licence question, speed limits, the 3.21 m height and what is still unconfirmed for the UK.
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