These apply if you are moving machinery or vehicles over 2.9m wide, either over five miles or more and/or are moving on a road which has a speed limit of 40mph or less.
You are required to give notification to the police at least 48 hours before the journey. At busy times of the year, such as harvest, this is clearly a hindrance to farm operations and time consuming for the police, so many constabularies operate some form of dispensation scheme.
Registering for a dispensation means that the notification conditions are reduced or removed altogether.听
If you need to apply for a dispensation then the contact details are:
- Essex - email [email protected] or phone 01245 457171
- Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire - (combined dispensation) email [email protected] (there is no phone option).
- 听Norfolk and Suffolk - email either [email protected] or [email protected] or a combined phone option for both counties on 01953 424672.
- Kent - email [email protected] or call 01622 798629. 听
- Surrey and Sussex - email [email protected] or call 077734 76926.
Copies of the dispensation should be kept in the vehicle when travelling.听
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