Thanks, good to know to expect to take an exam to drive the tractor. As a resident I want to follow French law so as to not attract negative attention from the authorities. You also now need to pass an exam to keep horses on your property, which is a good thing to avoid cruelty caused by ignorant people keeping horses.100 % sure !
Just keep in mind CAT 1/2/3.
At least that (3p) is not spoiled with different standards.
I have not done market research, but "from helicopter" to me it seems that in EU is very popular different agri- implements, for hay farming etc
In US you have way more dirt moving implements, not so popular here. For example thing like "box blade" is rather exotic here.
But another issue came to my mind. You are so concerned about tractor. But how about you ? I am not 100 % sure, but most likely you have to have tractor driver's license
Here in Latvia it is a must. So I think, most likely that is a must all over EU
OK, for small tractors category exam is a joke, there are mostly safety questions, but still it has to be done.
Again - while you are inside your property - nobody will give aabout your licenses and tractor's certificates
Exporting tractors to France
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Bavarian
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Again, from my experience from Germany, the tractor license was included in a car driver's license.
In the early 2000's, the driver's license classes got all European "Unionized" and are expressed in letters.
A German class E is the same as a French class E. ( I just used the letter E as an example).
If I remember correctly, the new European car driver's license has a different max weight limit and restrictions regarding trailers on it. Compsred to the old one.
As a US citizen, with a class 5 license ( at least that's what it's called in Canada) you get the license transferred to the European equivalent.
Bavarian
Platinum Member
Went on a German website for the EU driver's licenses. A car license is called class B. To drive a tractor on the road and up to 40 km/h, you need a class L which is included in class B.
You should be good to go on that.
You should be good to go on that.
Thank you for the research and information.
Helogabals
Gold Member
To me it seems not so much "synchronized" across EU
Here we have to have "TR" "1/2/3" class licenses. And it depends on tractor's mass, nothing to do with transit speed
Just for inspiration, back side of my driver's license.
As far as I have seen, all other EU states have similar division
ptsg
Super Member
Here in Portugal is the same for the Tractor driving license. It's the "T" category and it's subdivided in three classes according to the weight of the tractors.
We're also required a 35 hour training, mostly about driving, operating and hooking up implements safely.
Helogabals
Gold Member
I would say - you have +/- the same as here.
But it might be that some states have some historical or whatever reasons to make this different. Even it should be the same all over EU