Recently, the classification of vehicles in driver's licenses has changed. Our people's representatives would not be themselves if they had not come up with a way to complicate the lives of people. We have no choice but to accept the fact and reconcile.
In addition, you need to understand the issue of new features of the division of transport in driver's licenses. This at first glance seems to be a difficult question, but if you look deeply, the classification of vehicles by categories is not so sophisticated, 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 WU
Here we include all the vehicles that you can move around without the right, but, of course, with strict observance of traffic rules. Such transport is a bicycle, a segway, a unicycle and a lawn mower. Yes, it is worth agreeing that riding a lawn mower is a rather strange occupation that does not find mass 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 is subject to the rules of the road.
M vehicles
This is a new category that did not exist before. It was created in order to stop minors, who at one time became a problem of cities, driving on mopeds that do not fall into any category in pre-existing driver's licenses. It was extremely difficult to hold these young violators accountable.
With the advent of a new category of vehicles of category “M”, it included all mopeds, ATVs, scooters, if the engine capacity in these vehicles does not exceed 50 cubic meters. see. Now riding on vehicles of category "M" requires a driver's license with the corresponding open category. If it is absent, then the person driving the vehicle is fully responsible for driving a vehicle without a VU, in accordance with applicable law.
It is worth making a reservation, riding on vehicles falling under the category "M" is allowed if you have an unexpired WU with any category.
Category “A” and subcategory “A1”
Motorcycles (two-wheeled and two-wheeled with a side trailer) weighing less than 400 kg fall into this category.
The A1 subcategory allows you to drive a motorcycle if its power unit is not more than 125 cm3 and the vehicle power is not more than 11 kW. The subcategory “A1” can be obtained if you are 16 years old. Category “A” means surrender if you are already 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 with a mass of less than 3,500 kg and a restriction on passenger seats, their number should not exceed eight seats. Category "B" also allows you to drive a car that falls under the above criteria in the composition 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, to the subcategory “B1” in column 12 of the driver’s license, the mark “AS” is additionally put, which implies a car control system. This is necessary if you do not have an open category "A" marked "MS", which, accordingly, means a motorcycle system for driving a vehicle, which will be on your license if there is no open category "B".
It is necessary to distinguish the difference between the concepts of "quadricycle" and "ATV". Such similar concepts imply a technique with very significant structural differences. A quadricycle is a vehicle with car-type seats, and landing in this vehicle is also automobile. In addition, the vehicle has a round steering wheel and pedals. The ATV is a type of mototechnics, with landing "on top", with a bicycle type wheel on which there is an accelerator.
In addition, 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 exam on a vehicle with this particular type of transmission.
If you passed the exam in a car with a manual gearbox, then you can drive vehicles with either a manual gearbox or an automatic gearbox.
Category “C” and Subcategory “C1”
The category of vehicles includes freight vehicles with a total weight of 3,500 kilograms or more, including the control of a truck with a trailer if the latter weighs less than 750 kilograms.
Subcategory C1 gives the right to drive trucks weighing more than 3,500 kg but less than 7,500 kg. A trailer for such a car weighing less than 7500 kg does not require the driver to open any additional subcategory in the VU.
Category “D” and Subcategory “D1”
Deciphering the category of vehicles is simple. This is the category 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 want to believe that it will remain so.
Subcategory "D1" - designed 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. It is now divided into several subcategories. The main category to this additional one is the one to which it is intended to attach a trailer, which requires the driver to have an open subcategory "E". The types of vehicles connected to the subcategory “E” may 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 from 750 kilograms or heavier than the car itself.
- "CE" is a truck with a heavy trailer if the car trailer also weighs more than 750 kilograms.
- “C1E” is a highly specialized subcategory for especially heavy trailers. Subcategory limitation - the total weight of the equipment should not exceed 12 tons.
- “DE” is a category for a bus with a trailer of 750 kilograms or a bus that consists of two compartments that are connected in the middle between themselves.
- “D1E” is a rare subcategory for a bus with a heavy trailer weighing over 750 kilograms. The subcategory limits the total weight of the road train to no more than 12 tons. Such road trains may be in the possession of circuses, artists, and musicians.
Category “Tm” and category “Tb”
Trams and trolleybuses fall into the category of vehicles. To open this category you are required to undergo specialized training, also your age must exceed 21 years. The training lasts about 6 months, takes place in a specialized educational institution. The category “Tm” corresponds to the tram, the category “Tb” corresponds to the trolleybus.
Categories of vehicles for maintenance
It would seem that is all, but no, the Russian categories of vehicles may still have 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 focus too much on this issue, because it does not concern drivers.
Consider only one example of category labeling, using freight transport as an example. Trucks are labeled “N”. It provides for the division into three smaller subcategories. "N1" - trucks with a gross weight of not more than 3500 kg, category "N2" - vehicles (trucks), whose weight falls within the limits of 3500 kg - 12 tons. "N3" - heavy trucks with a weight of 12 tons or more.
The classification is rather complicated, it is good that the change in the category of the vehicle is not planned 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!
Summary
In the end, it is worth saying that all reforms and changes cause discontent among the population and require unnecessary confusion, as well as actions to replace documents, you need to find positive aspects in all this.
The most obvious point is to increase traffic safety in the modern world, with increasing speeds and growing traffic (especially in large cities), all of which can be called a necessary measure corresponding to the time in which we live, and not just fictitious bureaucrats. Innovations are always poorly perceived, but when their obvious benefits become noticeable, they are universally approved.
And one story with distraught unpunished teenagers who rode scooters on sidewalks and other places not intended for the vehicle is enough to approve all these innovations. It must also be said that order should be in everything. Classifying vehicles into categories is a step towards that order. The smaller the classification, the easier it will be to control the situation.