OK, so I've just been to my local Ifor Williams dealer to enquire about buying a flat-bed trailer. However, when I told them that I needed something that would take a 1 tonne payload, and that I was restricted because I passed my test in 1999, they told me that I was stuffed in that I was limited to a trailer plus load of 750kg max, and that it also had to be un-braked, regardless of the weight.
Now my reading of the rules
had been that category B entitlement allowed me to drive a total rig of up to 3500 kg, which in my case would comprise a Landrover Defender (1800 kg ish), the trailer (approx 500 kg) and the load (1000 kg). This should just squeak in under the 3500 kg limit as long as the trailer is light enough and provided I lay off the pies for a bit.
[EDIT - it turns out this isn't true; see post below]So, I've just checked the DVLA website (see attachment), and it says
You can drive vehicles up to 3,500kg Maximum Authorised Mass (MAM) and up to 8 passenger seats, and a driver, with trailer up to 750kg; trailers over 750kg if combined weight of vehicle and trailer isn’t over 3,500kg and the fully-loaded trailer doesn’t weigh more than the unladen vehicle
So help me out folks. I know I can take an additional B+E category trailer test, but I really want to avoid having to do that as it's not cheap. However, the Ifor chap was really adamant about it all, and now I'm trying to figure out what I've misunderstood