What are the categories of driver's license?

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

Every person living in a modern metropolis knows that a driver's license is required to drive a vehicle. However, different vehicles require different categories of driving license. In addition, the driver is only en titled to drive the vehicle whose category is indicated on the license.

The following categories of driving licenses are distinguished:

1. Category "A" is indicated if you are allowed to drive motorized vehicles, such as motorcycles. There are also certain restrictions. For example, at the time of passing the exam, the student must be at least 16 years old. At the same time, persons who have reached the age of 14 are allowed to study. Another feature of category "A": it is not required to take an exam in urban roads. It is necessary to correctly fulfill the following standards: acceleration, slow motion, braking, snake and figure eight. All of them are performed on the training ground.

2. Category "B" gives the right to drive cars, the number of passenger seats in which is not more than eight. In addition, this category allows you to manage cargocars with a maximum mass not exceeding 3.5 tons, minibuses, as well as cars with a trailer with a carrying capacity of less than 750 kg. Category "B" does not allow you to drive vehicles from category "A".

To obtain this category of driver's license, you must take a special course at a driving school. The program includes a theoretical and, of course, a practical course of study, they end with an exam. First, the trainee must confirm theoretical knowledge, then show the acquired practical skills on the site and in the city.

3. Category "C" is required to drive large heavy trucks weighing at least 3.5 tons, and trucks with a trailer with a maximum weight of less than 750 kg. This category does not allow the driver to drive light trucks and so-called "cars".

4. Category "D" gives the right to drive all kinds of buses without restrictions on the maximum mass, as well as buses equipped with a trailer. A feature of this category of driving license is that the driver is responsible for many human lives at once. This means that to obtain it, you must complete an enhanced security course.

5. Category "E" is an addition. Its peculiarity is that it allows you to drive vehicles of categories "B", "C" and "D", which are equipped with a trailer with a maximum weight exceeding the previously agreed 750 kilograms.

In this case, the category "E" can be open for one of the previously described categories or for several. Atobtaining this permit, in the column "special notes" on the driver's license, it is indicated for which of the categories this permit is granted. For example, if you are a B, C, and E license holder with an E for B, you are not allowed to drive heavy trucks with a heavy trailer.