Tractors are considered a special vehicle, therefore they require a separate category of driver's license. Special vehicle licenses are very different from passenger car licenses.
Tractor license - what is it and how to get it
Depending on the type of tractor there is 15 types of tractor categories. Unlike straight A, B, C и D, Obtaining a tractor license has its own characteristics. Basically, tractors are a very broad concept, and therefore there are many types of tractors, starting from wheeled ones, used in agriculture, and ending with heavy tracked vehicles, working in quarries.
Depending on the characteristics and technical parameters of special equipment, exists 15 types of tractor licenses
- A1 – Tractors with engine power up to 100 hp.
- A2 – Tractors with engine power over 100 hp.
- B1 – self-propelled harvester for harvesting corn and grain
- B2 – Self-propelled forage harvester
- B3 – self-propelled machines for collecting root crops, potatoes, vegetables, fruits and berries
- C – Self-propelled road construction machines
- D1 – Excavators with bucket capacity up to 4 cubic meters
- D2 – Excavator with a bucket volume of more than 4 cubic meters
- E1 – Loaders with engine power up to 200 hp.
- E2 – Loaders with engine power over 200 hp.
- F1 – Grader with bucket capacity less 18 tonnes
- F2 – Grader with a bucket capacity of more than 18 tonnes
- G1 – bulldozers with engine power up to 100 hp.
- G2 – bulldozers with an engine power of more than 100 hp.
- H – other self-propelled vehicles, which require registration with the territorial authority
At what age can you get a driver's license? – what the law says?
Impossible, so that a person receives all categories at once. Therefore, initially you will need buy rights category A1. After this you will master the A2 categories, B1, B2 и B3 за 2-3 of the month. To explore other categories, You must have work experience in category A1 of at least 1 of the year.
In addition to various types of tractor driver licenses, tractor drivers are also assigned a special class.
- The second category gives the right to work under the guidance of an experienced partner and allows you to repair loading equipment.
- The third type of license gives the right to operate battery-powered loading equipment and maintain tractor equipment.
- The fourth type of category gives the right to work on loaders with a power of more than 100 hp. and independently repair and maintain the car.
- Category 5 – this is the right to drive a tractor with less power 100 l.s., when the tractor is used as an excavator, bulldozer, etc..
- Sixth category – the right to drive tractors with more power 200 l.s., if they are used as excavators, bulldozers, etc..
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