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[โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The EU has different licenses for cars and trucks? Cool!

I've always found it weird that a standard license here lets you drive anything from a teeny tiny SmartCar to an F350 pulling a massive palace-in-wheels, or a near bus-sized motorhome (provided it doesn't have air brakes and is under 4600kg).

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wait. Are you telling me that the American "if you can parallel park, here's your driver license" license allows you to legally drive trucks and other heavy machinery?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago

    See here for a reference on the various options, most of which are drivable under a standard license. The big difference tends to be when you get into things with air brakes, which requires a special endorsement or the truly huge sizes. Most of the restrictions are based on the towing/hauling or hitch capacity of the vehicle pulling them though, as opposed to the license of the driver

    https://www.rv.com/rv/rv-classes-explained/

    Also, this is in Canada but my understanding is that the US is much the same

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