Can i move my caravan to a repair shop for work to be done.
Bearing in mind that the workshop is open legally, and repairing Caravans and Motorhomes.
Now the tricky bit.
THESE CAN OPEN.
bicycle shops, vehicle repair and MOT services
Storage and distribution facilities including delivery drop off or collection points, are also able to open where the facilities are in the premises of a business allowed to remain open. For example, you can return an order to a drop box in a supermarket or drop it off for collection in a newsagents. Deliveries of supplies can also go ahead for premises that are otherwise required to close by law.
Businesses that provide services (rather than goods) - such as accountants, solicitors, and estate agents - are not required to close, unless listed below.
This includes businesses which have as their main activity repair services, such as electronics repair services. This does not include shops that would otherwise be considered non-essential retail, such as a mobile phone store that offers some repairs.
THESE CANNOT OPEN
car and other vehicle showrooms and other premises, including outdoor areas, used for the sale or hire of caravans, boats or any vehicle which can be propelled by mechanical means. However taxi or vehicle hire businesses can continue.
For example a customer could order a rental vehicle online and collect it in person.
car washes (except for automatic car washes)
So my local repair center is open, trading legally as well.
Van requires repairs, and i have been asked to take it in.
So is it against the rules or not.
I have worked all past year through COVID so am aware of restrictions and the law, but this does seem a grey area this time round.
Did ring Derbyshire Police, call center said they cannot advise me.
Life’s full of grey areas. If the workshop is open for business then I would have thought you can take your caravan there to get it fixed.What’s the point of allowing the workshop to open otherwise ? No different from taking your car to get it serviced & MoT’ed. Which now you must do. No MoT holiday this yr.
Go for it I would. Cops won’t advise you on what is or isn’t legal. It’s bad for business.
I already took it.
Needed new motor mover and it's finally arrived.
And service due in 4 weeks so kill to birds at one go.
Need to get it fitted so i can get the van back down the side of the house and regain parking on the front.
But it's a question that many are asking, with no definitive answer from anywhere.
I trolled the GOV sites to get the above, and you need to read and add and explore loads of avenues to get near an answer.
Police did see me but was parked facing the other way, thought they where going to turn around and blue light me but it never happened.
The workshop is only about 4 miles away in Langley Mill.
But as the DVLA have enforced, alongside police, and multi agency's recently, with trailers, vans, cars, HGV checks, with OPtramline.
All vehicles need to be kept in a roadworthy condition even with COVID Restrictions being in place.
Technically the journey could be deemed non-essential, but then what is the point of allowing the workshops to open if people aren't allowed to go to them? It is something of a grey area I suppose.
The problem could be that if you were seen towing a caravan, and just happened upon a very officious police officer, he could just decide to issue a fine. On the other hand you may meet nobody on the way there or the way back, the decision is yours alone. You are probably more likely to get stopped with a caravan in tow than without.
Hi Colin
Trust me seeing the Covid rules being broken in my neighborhood alone would result in hefty fines if they got caught.
We have followed the rules since day one and will continue to do so, and i will continue to work.
Some may say that i have broken them now.
But as you and Billy state the workshop is open, so why would the government allow a workshop to open and not be able to trade?
Maybe so they don't have to pay them anything, in the way of compensation.
That may well be the point.
Quote: Originally posted by Ray Clayton on 16/2/2021
Hi Colin
Trust me seeing the Covid rules being broken in my neighborhood alone would result in hefty fines if they got caught.
We have followed the rules since day one and will continue to do so, and i will continue to work.
Some may say that i have broken them now.
But as you and Billy state the workshop is open, so why would the government allow a workshop to open and not be able to trade?
Maybe so they don't have to pay them anything, in the way of compensation.
That may well be the point.
Bit of a bloody minefield.
Absolutely right it's a minefield Ray. So many things that appear to contradict.
I know just what you mean about Covid regulations too. A lot of people around here seem to be just ignoring them and carrying on as they normally would. We've been following the rules too, in fact we've probably been going beyond them as we've hardly been out of the house since well before Christmas as we are both over 70. At least we've had our jabs now so we are feeling a bit more optimistic.
Cheers.
Started damp repairs beginning of Dec, van is in storage 20 miles away, so with lock down , and I suspect it will continue here in Wales for a while yet, looks unlikely we will be able too use it until late summer /autumn, where we ay be in some sort of restrictions again!
I am sure if I was stopped now going to the storage area , police would issue a fine.
Not sure what rules you are under with the Welch government.
And i am not looking either, be more of a headache lol.
But no doubt that they will contradict each other like here.
I have done a search and quite a few dealers have service centers open, and quite a few do not.
And also click and collect a new van, or delivered to your door.
Shambles i guess overall.
Maybe it should be the workshops that come and take your van and return it, as that would then be part of the working day, and part of the job.
That's see what we are told next Monday, i just hope after all this time they do not lift it to quickly, and put his back to square one again.
Well I went out this afternoon to pick up my regular prescription from the chemist, and my immediate thought was "lock-down - what lock-down?" I hadn't been outside my front door since my jab on 6th of this month, so I had no real idea of what the traffic would be like. I soon found out! It was as busy, or maybe even busier than on a "normal" Wednesday afternoon in February. The usual nightmare getting onto the local roundabout and nose to tail traffic going into town. Not a police car to be seen anywhere, but if there had been they would have been totally overwhelmed if they tried to stop people. There is no way on earth that those cars were all on essential journeys! Just business as usual for most people it seems.
That is exactly what i see every day.
Quiet in morning normal works traffic at 5-30.
But going home around 15-00 you would think there was no lock down at all, and schools open and not on half term.
Beggers belief, and more and more seem to be in stores shopping?
Must be different in different areas. Apart from that trip to the chemist and the trip to get the jab on 6th, I haven't been off my estate for weeks, but on those two trips you'd think it was February 2019. It's difficult to tell what things are like generally from my home, because it is always very quiet here. The estate has only one way in and out, so there's no through traffic and we are off the main road. In town though, between two and three miles away, things are like they were two years ago apart from some of the shops being closed. Judging by the people going by my house at school time, the local primary school is open and the kids are going to school.
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Topic: Caravan Repairs , Servicing Covid Lockdow
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