Categories of vehicles: types, classification, decoding

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

Recently, the classification of vehicles in driver's licenses has changed. Our people's deputies would not be themselves if they did not come up with a way to complicate people's lives. We have no choice but to accept the fact and reconcile.

In addition, we need to understand the issue of new features of the division of transport in driver's licenses. At first glance, this seems like a difficult question, but if you delve into it, then the classification of vehicles into categories is not so tricky, there is logic in this division. Getting used to the new rules is definitely worth it. Let's do it right now. The main feature of the innovation is an increase in the number of categories into which vehicles are now divided.

Vehicles that do not require a license

Here we will include all transport on which you can move without havingright, but, of course, with strict observance of traffic rules. Such transport is a bicycle, segway, unicycle and lawn mower. Yes, we have to agree that riding a lawn mower is a rather strange activity that does not find mass character in our country. But rules are rules, if a vehicle can move, has wheels and a steering wheel, it is, by definition, a vehicle and falls under the rules of the road.

M category vehicles

This is a new category that didn't exist before. It was created in order to stop minors, who at one time became a problem in cities, riding around on mopeds that did not fit into any category on pre-existing driver's licenses. Bringing these young perpetrators to justice was extremely difficult.

With the advent of a new category of vehicles of category "M", it included all mopeds, ATVs, scooters, if the engine size in these vehicles does not exceed 50 cubic meters. see Driving category M vehicles now requires a driver's license with the corresponding open category. If it is absent, then the person driving the vehicle is responsible for driving a vehicle without a VU in full, in accordance with applicable law.

It is worth making a reservation, driving vehicles that fall under the category "M" is allowed if you have an unexpired license with any category.

Category "A" and subcategory "A1"

This category includes motorcycles (two-wheelers and two-wheelers with a side trailer) weighing less than 400 kg.

Subcategory "A1" allows you to drive a motorcycle if the volume of its power unit is not more than 125 cm3, and the vehicle's power is not more than 11 kW. Subcategory "A1" can be obtained if you are 16 years of age or older. Category "A" means surrender if you are already over 18 years old. If you successfully pass the exam for category "A", then you will automatically receive a mark in the driver's license "A1"

Category "B" and subcategory "B1"

This category includes all cars weighing less than 3500 kg and limited to passenger seats, their number should not exceed eight seats. Category "B" also allows you to drive a car that meets the above criteria in combination with a car trailer, if its weight is less than 750 kg.

Subcategory "B1" includes quadricycles, as well as tricycles, provided that the mass of these vehicles is less than 3500 kg, and their design speed does not exceed 50 km/h.

It is worth making a reservation, the subcategory "B1" in column 12 of the driver's license is additionally marked "AS", which implies an automotive control system. This is required if you do not have an open category "A" with the mark "MS", which, accordingly, implies a motorcycle vehicle control system, which will be on your license in the absence of an openCategory B.

It is worth distinguishing the difference between the concepts of "quad bike" and "quad bike". Such similar concepts imply a technique with very significant structural differences. A quadricycle is a vehicle with automobile type seats, landing in this vehicle is also automobile. In addition, the vehicle has a round steering wheel and pedals. A quad bike is a type of motorcycle with a riding position, with a bicycle-type steering wheel on which the accelerator is located.

Also, your new driver's license may be marked "AT", it is located at the bottom of the back page of the driver's license. This mark means that you can drive vehicles with an automatic transmission, because you passed the test on a vehicle with this particular type of transmission.

If you took the test in a car with a manual transmission, you can drive both manual and automatic vehicles.

Category "C" and subcategory "C1"

The category of vehicles includes goods transport with a total weight of 3500 kilograms, and also includes driving a truck with a trailer if the latter weighs less than 750 kilograms.

Subcategory C1 gives the right to drive trucks weighing more than 3500 kg, but less than 7500 kg. A trailer for such a vehicle weighing less than 7500 kg does not require the driver to open anyan additional subcategory in the WU.

Category "D" and subcategory "D1"

Deciphering the category of vehicles is simple. This category is for buses. A bus in our country is a vehicle that has more than eight passenger seats. The size of the bus, as well as its total weight in this category, is not regulated in any way, I would like to believe that this will remain so.

Subcategory "D1" - calculated for buses in which the number of seats is more than 8, but less than 16, the driver's seat is not considered.

Category "E"

This category does not exist as a single category. It is now divided into several subcategories. The main category for this additional category is the one to which it is intended to attach a trailer, which requires the driver to have an open subcategory "E". Types of vehicle category connected to sub-category "E" can be:

• "BE" is the most common passenger car with a large trailer (for example, a motor home). A trailer falls into this category if it weighs 750 kilograms or more than the car itself.
• "CE" means a truck with a weighted trailer if the car trailer also weighs over 750 kilograms.
• "C1E" is a highly specialized sub-category for particularly heavy trailers. Subcategory restriction - the total weight of the equipment should not exceed 12 tons.
• "DE" - category for a bus with a trailer from 750 kilograms or a bus that consists of two compartments thatare connected in the middle with each other.
• "D1E" is a rare subcategory for a bus with a weighted trailer weighing over 750 kilograms. The subcategory limits the total weight of the road train - no more than 12 tons. Such road trains can be owned by circuses, artists, musicians.

Tm category and Tb category

Trams and trolleybuses fall into the category of vehicles. To open this category, you are required to complete specialized training, and you must be over 21 years old. Training lasts about 6 months, takes place in a specialized educational institution. Category "Tm" corresponds to the tram, category "Tb" corresponds to the trolley bus.

Vehicle categories for MOT

It would seem that this is all, but no, Russian categories of vehicles may have more subcategories. These categories are different, they are not needed to obtain a driver's license, they exist for inspection bodies that monitor the condition of the vehicle.

Here, the categories of vehicles apply not only to our country, but also to the territory of the entire Customs Union, of which Russia is a member. We will not dwell on this issue too much, because it does not concern drivers.

Let's consider just one example of category marking, using the example of freight transport. Trucks are labeled "N". There is a division into three more smaller subcategories. "N1" - these are trucks with a gross weight of not more than 3500 kg, category "N2" - vehicles (trucks), weightwhich fit within the limits of 3500 kg - 12 tons. "N3" - heavy trucks with a weight of 12 tons or more.

Classification is quite complicated, it is good that there are no plans to change the category of the vehicle in the near future. I would like to believe that when we get used to this classification of categories, we will not be forced to learn new classifications and divisions again!

Results

In the end, it should be said that all reforms and changes cause dissatisfaction among the population and require unnecessary confusion, as well as actions to replace documents, you need to find positive points in all this.

The most obvious point is the improvement of traffic safety in today's world, with increasing speeds and growing traffic (especially in large cities), all this can be called a necessary measure, corresponding to the times in which we live, and not just inventions of bureaucrats. Innovations are always poorly received, but when their obvious benefits become noticeable, they are approved by everyone.

And one story with distraught unpunished teenagers who rode scooters on sidewalks and other places not intended for vehicles is already enough to approve all these innovations. It must also be said that order must be in everything. The classification of vehicles into categories is a step towards such an order. The smaller the classification, the easier it will be to control the situation.