Your vehicle may be exempt from road user charges (RUC) if:
A vehicle is exempt from paying road user charges if it belongs to a class of vehicles whose purpose or design means it is unsuitable for regular road use.
Vehicles unsuitable for regular road use are listed below:
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A tractor – a motor vehicle (other than a traction engine) that is designed and constructed, and not merely adapted, for traction and powering implements |
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A traction engine |
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A forklift, telehandler or sidehandler |
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A self-propelled machine that is designed and constructed (not merely adapted) for the following specialist industrial purposes:
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A self-propelled vehicle (other than a tractor) or towed vehicle that is designed and constructed for (not merely adapted) agricultural purposes, including:
but not including:
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A trailer towed by a traction engine, a forklift, telehandler, sidehandler or self-propelled machine described above |
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A motor vehicle propelled and supported solely by self-laying tracks |
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All terrain vehicle |
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Aerodrome crash fire tenders used on road only in emergencies |
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Trailer scraper (not self-propelled) |
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Plant for servicing oil filled cables |
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Road rollers |
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Stone and gravel crushing and screening plant |
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Bulldozers and angle dozers |
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Front end loaders |
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Mobile pile drivers |
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Motor scrapers (self-propelled) |
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Self-propelled water carts that are always unladen on the road |
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Self-propelled trench diggers and excavators |
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Self-propelled vehicles that are always unladen on the road and that are designed exclusively for carrying earth or other bulk materials |
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Mobile cranes (excluding mobile vehicle recovery units, truck mounted cranes, and cranes to which a distance recording device is or could readily be fitted) |
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Motor graders |
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Cable jinkers |
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Post debarkers |
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Saw bench apparatus |
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Forestry chippers that are used exclusively in the operation or management of a forest |
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Sawing or shearing apparatus for tree cutting |
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Log haulers that are not self-propelled and are stationary when hauling logs |
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Log forwarders |
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Log processors |
Light diesel vehicles (ie weigh less than 3.5 tonnes) that are used almost exclusively off-road for the following purposes may be eligible to be granted a permanent exemption from paying road user charges. The eligible purposes are:
The vehicle must meet the following criteria to retain the exemption:
If any of these criteria change, the exemption ceases and a new application must be made or a RUC licence must be purchased.
You will need to make an Application for RUC exemption under section 40 of the RUC Act 2012 (RUCEX).
If you already have a RUC exemption for an off-road light diesel vehicle, but your details have changed, you need to make an Application to change details of RUC exemption (RUCEC).
