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Getting a licence is one thing; not every licence covers every vehicle. Licences come in classes, and each class carries its own entitlement. Here is how they work.
In general, licences are graded A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, C1, C2, C3 and C4. What does each cover?
A1 is large passenger vehicles. A2 is tractor units, including heavy and medium full trailers and semi-trailers. A3 is city buses, meaning buses seating more than ten. B1 is medium passenger vehicles, including city buses seating more than ten and up to nineteen. B2 is heavy goods vehicles, including heavy and medium trucks and large, heavy and medium special-purpose vehicles. C2 is small automatic cars: small and micro automatic passenger cars and light and micro automatic goods vehicles. C3 is low-speed goods vehicles, formerly four-wheel agricultural transporters. C4 is three-wheeled vehicles, formerly three-wheel agricultural transporters.
C1 is the small car class, by far the most common licence. It covers small and micro passenger cars, light and micro goods vehicles, and light, small and micro special-purpose vehicles. Each class carries its own entitlement, and a C1 also covers what C2, C3 and C4 permit.
1. A C1 covers manual or automatic minibuses and MPVs seating up to nine people, which in practice means ordinary saloons, SUVs and MPVs.
2. A C1 covers vehicles with a gross weight below 4.5 tonnes and a length of six metres or less.