In article , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
[news] wrote:
"Hiring a HGV vehicle is out of the question for self-drive"

The statement is vague.

no it's not. self drive is out of the question - he doesn't want to,
the reason why are a matter for him and pedants like you

Being more pedantic, is a 7.5 tonner an HGV? After all, there is such a
thing as an HGV licence...

No it isn't an HGV. They aren't called HGV any more anyway, it is LGV
now. If you do not have category C1 on your licence (apparently the date
this changed was 1/1/97), you need to take a LGV class C1 test to be
able to drive one.

The silly thing is, the test (and cost of training etc) is virtually the
same as for LGV class C (which was HGV class II) which allows you to
drive up to 18 tonnes. So if you are going to the bother of taking the
test you may as well go for the bigger version.
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Tim Mitchell