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Category W Test

  • 13-12-2012 11:45am
    #1
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok I have been doing some online checking of the changes in requirements for Driving Licence categories and came across this from the RSA

    I am posting it here as this is a post "learning to drive" question tbh

    If you are applying for a test in category W (tractor/works Vhicle) you can
    request to have your test conducted at a town nearer to you than any of the
    above centres

    Now I have always thought that you get category W automatically after passing the driving test - the B driving category for example

    Has anyone out there actually gone and undetaken an actual category W test :confused:

    Would you have to have L plates for your tractor / digger?


Comments

  • #2
    jayok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭jayok


    Dunno - I got W when I passed by B way back in 94.

    However, I believe you can hold a W at 16. As such, there must be a route to qualify at 16 for a W class machine.

    Actually, thinking about it, where I grew up I knew of farmer's kids that actually had a W license at 16 to help draw hay, etc. So it did exist at one stage.


  • #3
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    jayok wrote: »
    Dunno - I got W when I passed by B way back in 94.

    However, I believe you can hold a W at 16. As such, there must be a route to qualify at 16 for a W class machine.

    Actually, thinking about it, where I grew up I knew of farmer's kids that actually had a W license at 16 to help draw hay, etc. So it did exist at one stage.

    I believe many farmers kids simply drove on the W licence without necessarily doing the test...

    Turning up for your test in a honking big John Deere would be something else...:cool:


  • #4
    jayok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭jayok


    gozunda wrote: »
    I believe many farmers kids simply drove on the W licence without necessarily doing the test...

    I think most farmers' kids drove without a W license in the first place...


  • #5
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Yeah I got the W and M after doing the theory in 2005 when I was 16 and got a couple of summers and weekend work from it.

    Has this changed? Because even back then I thought it was a little silly to let young lads (or ladies) onto the roads in very big machines :)


  • #6
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    I got it with my B afaik. Didn't get the M.


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