Step 3 » GENERAL learning environment Category B (B, B1)

The holder of a category B driving licence has the right to drive a car with a trailer in the following situations:

• the trailer must have a maximum authorised total mass (MTMA) of up to 750 kg: thus the category B licence is sufficient, without other additional conditions;
• if the trailer has an MTMA over 750 kg: driving the combination is permitted provided that the combined MTMA of the combination (motor vehicle + trailer) does not exceed 3,500 kg. And if the combination has a combined MTMA between 3,501 and 4,250 kg it is necessary to complete an additional training course within a driving school, called “Code 96.”.

The correct answer is: B

Recommendations:

Obligations and prohibitions when towing vehicles - Audio-Video Lesson --> Traffic Code - Obligations and prohibitions in case of technical failure or when towing vehicles

Everything about driving licence categories and equivalences between them - Audio-Video Lesson --> Traffic Code - The driving licence

OUG* - Annex 1

The categories of vehicles for which the driving licence is issued, provided in art. 20 paragraph (2), are defined as follows:
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f) category B:
1. the motor vehicle whose maximum authorised total mass does not exceed 3,500 kg and whose number of seats, excluding the driver, is not greater than 8;
2. the combination consisting of a towing motor vehicle in category B and a trailer whose maximum authorised total mass does not exceed 750 kg;
3. the combination of vehicles whose maximum authorised total mass does not exceed 4,250 kg, consisting of a towing motor vehicle in category B and a trailer whose maximum authorised total mass exceeds 750 kg;
g) category BE: the combination of vehicles whose maximum authorised total mass exceeds 4,250 kg, consisting of a towing motor vehicle in category B and a trailer or semitrailer whose maximum authorised total mass does not exceed 3,500 kg;
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OUG* - Article 24^1

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(3) Persons who hold a category B driving licence have the right to drive the combinations of vehicles provided in letter f) point 3 of annex no. 1, in the case in which the combination exceeds 3,500 kg, only if they prove that they have completed a training course within an authorised training unit for drivers of vehicles.
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* OUG = EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Traffic Code)