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Tractor protest in London

Posted by Greeves Rider on February 10, 2025, 2:25 pm

I see the farmers are out in force again today with their tractors in London. My question are tractors exempt from the LEZ charge? I checked a couple of number plates on the LEZ check web site and they seem to be exempt but they were fairly new tractors 68 and 20 plates. Presumably age comes into it as with cars, I do note though that like bikes tractors dont have front number plates so may not register on the APR cameras

Re: Tractor protest in London

Posted by Lannis on February 10, 2025, 2:48 pm, in reply to "Tractor protest in London"

Maybe you could do like they do in Portugal. Farmers gear up their tractors so that they will run 60 mph in top gear and use them like trucks/lorries on the roads, and still plow the fields with them tomorrow.

Lannis

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Re: Tractor protest in London

Posted by Greeves Rider on February 10, 2025, 5:47 pm, in reply to "Re: Tractor protest in London"

In UK as well, JCB make a Fasttrac tractor that has a fast road speed not as fast as 60mph but more like 40 mph. As you say some unscrupulous haulage contractors use them for long distance road work, taking sugar beet to factories etc.

Re: Tractor protest in London

Posted by Will on February 10, 2025, 2:51 pm, in reply to "Tractor protest in London"

What I wonder is if they are running on red diesel. AFAIK on the road you are only allowed to use red for a limited distance while travelling between plots of land you are farming or your farm. The distance limit is quite small, if I recollect correctly only a very few miles.

Is there a farmer on here who knows?

Re: Tractor protest in London

Posted by Will on February 10, 2025, 2:55 pm, in reply to "Tractor protest in London"

According to TFL website the following are exempt from charges:
Specialist agricultural vehicles
Military vehicles
Non-road going vehicles which are allowed to drive on the highway (for example, excavators)
Certain types of mobile cranes

Re: Tractor protest in London

Posted by ChazzyB on February 10, 2025, 6:16 pm, in reply to "Tractor protest in London"

Apparently all the BBC say is there's a protest in London, but not what it's about.

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Re: Tractor protest in London

Posted by Brickboy on February 10, 2025, 6:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Tractor protest in London"

Chazzy, you could have checked whether that was 'apparently' true in ten seconds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwypj14q122o

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