What category D covers
Category D entitles you to drive a bus, a combination of a bus with a light trailer, and category AM vehicles. There is no limit here on the number of seats or on the length of the vehicle.
Below it sits category D1, limited to a bus designed to carry no more than 17 people including the driver and no longer than 8 metres. A heavier combination with a trailer requires category D+E.
Category D from what age - four thresholds
The rule is 24. The three lower thresholds apply only to people who have obtained the initial driver qualification provided for professional drivers, and they depend on what is carried and where.
It is the most branched age threshold in the whole act and the only one where age is decided by the kind of transport performed rather than by the vehicle itself.
- General rule
- 24
- With the initial driver qualification
- 21
- Road transport within Poland
- 20
- Regular services up to 50 km within Poland
- 18
What the exam material covers in category D
The paper is built as in the other categories: 20 basic questions and 12 specialist ones, 25 minutes in total.
The specialist part covers category D, so it deals with material specific to carrying passengers by bus. Categories D1 and D have separate pools of specialist questions.