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I went to the estates office and picked up a drivers form the other day (at last) and was told that we have to provide a copy of both card and paper part of our drivers license so I just wanted to check that anyone, meeting the previous requirements, can still drive the busses after a test?

Do we need a D1 license or not?

Just wanting to be clear after all the 'issues'.

I gave them a photocopy of the card and the paper counterpart, have only passed basic car (B1). Being 19 or older I can drive the 9 seater and mail vans, but must be 21 or over to drive the 12 seaters or larger. I have taken the test in the 9 seater, but need a further test to drive the larger buses.

Take from that all the rules & regs you can find!

You can drive a minibus on a B licence as long as it's not for "hire or reward", there is a limit on the number of seats as well, probably 15.

Isn't B1 a trike or something?

B1 is car!

Three or four-wheeled
light vehicles
Motor tricycles, quadricycles and
three or four-wheeled vehicles with
an unladen weight of no more
than 550kg

I googled "B1 licence" and got that. Unfortunatly the image of the little milk float thing doesn't cut and paste
Sorry for being pedantic, it's what an afternoon of lab tours does to you...

Having gone to the effort of pulling out my wallet, I was thinking of plain old fashioned Cat B...

The milk float is cool though

I always thought that getting the category on your licence to drive tracked vehicles would be cool, and yet, completely pointless - you'd probably need to join up to get that though

Ask Andy: if he was in the TA, he might have done a bit of that! Don't know where you'd find a civilian use for it of a building site, but it would be a neat one to have for the sake of it.

You even get paid to learn! But only once you've done more important things like car, hgv, minibus, forklift, motorbike.

Essentially you only learn if you join tanks, or are in the REME attached to tanks (have to be able to drive the bugger to fix it)