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Bus license and carrying passengers

FionnK86 · 2015-06-29 10:26:52

I've a general enquiry with regards to the 'D' category license. Are you required to obtain this license if you are driving a coach (for example,44 seats), but not carrying passengers (for example, shunting bus to another location). :confused:

29-06-2015 10:26am

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I've a general enquiry with regards to the 'D' category license. Are you required to obtain this license if you are driving a coach (for example,44 seats), but not carrying passengers (for example, shunting bus to another location).

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#2 29-06-2015 10:41am

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It depends on the weight of the bus. With a normal B licence you can drive a vehicle once it's less than 3500kg and a max 8 passengers.

You'd be hard pushed to find even a minibus that weighs under that.

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#3 29-06-2015 1:30pm

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FionnK86 wrote:

I've a general enquiry with regards to the 'D' category license. Are you required to obtain this license if you are driving a coach (for example,44 seats), but not carrying passengers (for example, shunting bus to another location).

If it's registered on the logbook as a 44-seater bus, then you've got to have a d licence to drive it regardless. It doesn't matter if there's people on board or not or what's the GVW.

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