VAN DRIVING IN THE UK:

Regardless if you are a local, a tourist, or a traveller in and around the UK, high are the chances that you’d need a car or a van to take you where you’d like to go. Van driving in the UK has restrictions that are almost the same as those you’ll encounter elsewhere. Regardless if you are a local, a tourist, or a traveller in and around the UK, high are the chances that you’d need a car or a van to take you where you’d like to go. Van driving in the UK has restrictions that are almost the same as those you’ll encounter elsewhere.

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First off, you are going to need all the licenses and the credentials to be permitted to drive. In the UK, van drivers have to be at least seventeen years old, but with some companies, you have to be twenty one. They must hold a driver’s license. In order to get one, he must pass the driving test. But since there are different types of vans around, the particular type a person may drive will depend on when and how he passes that test. Bigger vans, which pertains to the ones used for the delivery of goods, follows a different set of rules than that of family vans.

For Tourists though, van driving in the UK is permitted if you have an international driver's licence. Light vans are generally treated like cars, although there is a new category created for extra large vans with higher seating capacities. Some vans are considered as medium-range vehicles and they are treated differently than cars and other small vehicles.

Tourists who would like to drive while traveling in the UK can rent their choice of a van from a car hire company. They should be able to also provide you with ample information as to the different driving rules and regulations enforced in the country. You would have to submit all the requirements that they ask for, starting with your passport, driving license, and credit card for insurance purposes.

All existing traffic laws have to be heeded, especially the one about driving on the right side of the road. If from where you come from you are used to driving on the left, you have to learn how to drive a van on the right here, even if that feels like driving onwrong side of the road. That only means you’ve got to put your eyes on the road at all times. And be sure that your mind is well on it too.

Van driving in the UK is going to be a different experience indeed, especially if you’re used to using those small British cars. Here in the UK, the rumors were all true about the huge number of micro cars on the road. As a matter of fact, the 900cc Fiat is the most popular one. So if you really want to go van driving in the UK, you also have to get used to the fact that you’ll be a huge vehicle on the road. And what is written in all of the driving books,you have to drive carefully and defensively all the time. Unless you‘re the kind of tourist who is very used to driving on a foreign soil, think twice about it. As for the locals, you know all the rules of the land. Stick by it and everybody will be safe and sound.

 

 

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