Dual purpose vehicles class 4 vans etc

6 seats and a solid bulk head With a space to store tools in the rear would be a goods vehicle if it has a empty space behind the seats and rear window s covered would be class 4 not dual purpose

Class 4 dual purpose **vehicles** must have
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2nd row of upholstered seats...

Those seats MUST be lit by windows to the the side AND to the rear.

A bulkhead behind the second row of seats MUST have an opening or window and the rear doors MUST have windows to allow daylight to reach the seats.

No daylight reaching the second row of seats from side windows, bulkhead opening & windows in the rear door means no dual purpose.....revert to goods vehicle.

There are many vans without bulkheads.

I’ll elaborate, as I once got caught out.

We had a 3050kg Vito presented at a class 4 site. It met almost all of the dual purpose regs but the unladen weight was unknown. (Important Note- this was before the recent notification with the flow chart which has changed the picture currently). I advised the presenter it was class 7 unless unladen weight could be proven to be 2040kg or below (that was correct then, but not now)

Anyway, an email was sent to DVSA, which I have seen. That stated that because there was no bulkhead, the rear area was not a goods area, it was for the passengers personal effects, essentially it was to be treated as an estate passenger vehicle.

Looked like a van, smelled like a van……DVSA said it wasn’t a van.

So if the OPs Transporter doesn’t have a bulkhead, is it always a passenger vehicle? In which case, there’s no requirement for rear illumination.

I’ll see if I can find the DVSA correspondence, I’m sure I screenshotted iit as it wasn’t sent to me.

dwain

I'd be happy to call this Class 4 all day long. It's basically just an overgrown car. Windows all the way round.

dwain

Putting the bulkhead question aside, and assuming this vehicle had a second row of seats, it would fit the dual purpose definition, capable of carrying passengers, with a load area behind the second row, lit by windows at the side and at the rear.

Jeez

If the two, what I would consider, experts can't exactly agree, what chance has us lowly folk got lol

DVSA just need to get shot of dual purpose,

They also now say it has to have a rear window!

They do. Or at least the person I spoke to did.

Question: VW Transporter over 3000kg six seats has windows either side of the rear seats, does it need a rear window.

Answer: YES!