Ka-ching!
Another spanner in the works!

The certification process hasn't even been started yet; 'The Powers That Be' are working out as to how to classify it.

Because it has no seats in the back they don't want to classify it as a bus.

Because it has no caravan-type 'stuff' in the back they don't want to classify it as a mobile home.

(And if it did have caravan-type 'stuff' in the back I'm picking they'd want it pulled apart so as to inspect the engineering on various fittings.)

Catch 22.

So they want to classify it as a heavy goods vehicle (hgv); which it isn't, never was, and never will be.

As an hgv different laws would apply; it would have to have a hub-meter fitted, (and I would have to buy travelling miles permitted in advance,) and it would be subject to the far more rigourous (and expensive,) Certificate of Fitness every six months as against the normal Warrant of Fitness.

It would also mean that She Who Must Be Obeyed (who lost her license to drive an hgv many years back in another bureaucratic stuff-up...at the same time She lost her artic and bus licenses,) wouldn't be able to drive it.

Bureaucracy gone mad and completely out of control in my opinion.

Sigh.

I don't want to get too involved in this argy-bargy; with my mouth and temper I'd be sure to make matters worse, not better; so I'm stepping back and letting a mate in LVVTA fight my corner.
He's been involved (albeit indirectly,) in this build since its inception.

Frustrating?

Hell yeah!


But: "nil bastardo carborundum".
("Don't let them grind you down".)
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