Licence query

[118]

If you have Catagory C on your Licence is it equivilant to the old HGV 3?. Is C1 a LGV equivilant.
Thanks in advance.

[Dwight VanDriver]

In a nutshell:

A person who before 1.1.1997 passed a test in respect of a class in an old category shall be regarded as having passed a test in the new category, so

Old C corresponds with New Category C

C = Any m veh having a max authorised mass exceeding 3.5 tonnes other than a vehicle within D (Passenger veh more than 8), F (Ag/Forestry Tractor), G (Road roller)or H (Track layer)including such a vehicle drawing a trailer having an authorised mass n/e 750 kg

If the vehicle has a maximum authorised mass, which exceeds 3.5 tonnes, but not 7.5 tonnes then a category C1 licence is needed. If the maximum authorised mass exceeds 7.5 tonnes then a category C licence is needed.(The old HGV)

Go deeper:
The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regs 1999 and amendments
Stat Instrument 2864, SI 72 and SI 617 all of 1999

DVLA site Driving Licences.

dvd

[lgw]

in a simpler nutshell class C is any rigid the same as the old HGV2, if you had a class 3 originally you gain a class 2 by exemption when the license classes changed

[118]

Thanks, that is a bit clearer.