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Red tape (is this correct)

  • 13-11-2018 1:52pm
    #1
    sailing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭


    Just been to my local office to add a BE onto my B license. Basically to pull a trailer on the family car. Wasn’t aware that effectively its a learner permit I would be applying for and would have to sit a driving test. No issues there either way.

    However on inputting my details the admin guy says I also have to sit a theory test first. It’s 22 years since I passed my driving test, years before the theory test was even thought of. According to him I have to do the B tbeory test for a license I already hold, then apply for the BE, then do 12 driving lessons followed by a test.

    Surely this can’t be correct?


Comments

  • #2
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,084 ✭✭✭✭neris


    You have to do the theory test is correct but you dont have to do 12 lessons for the trailer. You can just book the test once you get the provisional. Its stupid I know. When I passed my C test i went to get a provisional CE & asked them to add the BE on aswell and they wouldnt coz I never did the B theory even though they were going to give me a license for a much a bigger heavier vehicle


  • #3
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    What kind of trailer are you looking to pull? A lot of smaller trailers would be covered under a normal B license.


  • #4
    sailing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭sailing


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    What kind of trailer are you looking to pull? A lot of smaller trailers would be covered under a normal B license.

    A horse box.


  • #5
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    You can't tow three off them at once. :pac:


  • #6
    MascotDec85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭MascotDec85


    sailing wrote: »
    Just been to my local office to add a BE onto my B license. Basically to pull a trailer on the family car. Wasn’t aware that effectively its a learner permit I would be applying for and would have to sit a driving test. No issues there either way.

    However on inputting my details the admin guy says I also have to sit a theory test first. It’s 22 years since I passed my driving test, years before the theory test was even thought of. According to him I have to do the B tbeory test for a license I already hold, then apply for the BE, then do 12 driving lessons followed by a test.

    Surely this can’t be correct?

    12 lessons haha, it’s amazing the amount of utter crap gets spouted from the folk behind the desk in the NDLS!
    Yes you need to do the theory because basically you’ve never done one. You can do a few lessons to make sure you’re test ready and sit it.


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