Monday 06 Jan 2014 @ 11:10
Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
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Changes to motorcycle, lorry and bus driving test rules
Changes will start to be made to some driving test rules for motorcyclists, lorry, bus and coach drivers from later this year (2014).
The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) has published a response to the public consultation about these changes that ran in 2013.
Lorry, bus and coach drivers
The main changes affecting lorry, bus and coach drivers will be:
- removing the need to use a vehicle with 8-forward gear ratios for large test vehicles (category C)
- allowing people who take a lorry or bus test (category C and D) in an automatic vehicle to get manual entitlement for those vehicles, if they already have a manual entitlement for cars, lorries or buses, with or without trailers (category B, B+E, C, C+E, C1, C1+E, D, D+E, D1+E)
Existing drivers
You can also get this manual entitlement when you pay the fee and exchange or upgrade your licence if you’re already a lorry, bus or coach driver and have a manual licence in any of those categories.
Motorcycle riders
DSA will reduce the minimum engine power requirement for medium motorcycles (category A2) from 25kW to 20kW.
There will be more changes from 2019. DSA will:
- raise the minimum engine power requirement for large motorcycles (category A) from 40kW to 50kW
- introduce a minimum mass weight requirement for large motorcycles (category A) of 180kg
