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From 19 January 2013, new licences issued are similar in size and shape to a credit-card (85.6 × 53.98 mm) as stipulated in Directive 2006/126/EEC. It features the driver's name and date of birth, their photo, signature and any restrictions or endorsements such as the need to wear glasses and any penalty points accrued.
This is effectively the new GV Class 2 in the UK, the old HGV Class 2 being any rigid goods vehicle with more than two axles. A driver can commence training for a Category C license from 18 years old. [7] Category C+E: allows the holder to drive any large goods vehicle with a trailer having a maximum authorized mass of over 750 kg. [5]
A truck driver driving a semi-truck in the Netherlands. A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; [1] an HGV driver in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the European Union, a lorry driver, or driver in the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia and Singapore) is a person who ...
The Garda insignia is also present on vehicles. As of March 2024, An Garda Síochána's fleet of 3,513 vehicles was made up of 2,655 cars (1,046 marked and 1,609 unmarked), 562 vans, 140 motorcycles, 103 four-wheel drive vehicles, and 53 other types. [1] The fleet is managed by the Garda Fleet management Section. [2]
Two Garda Traffic Corps Hyundai i30 and Toyota Avensis vehicles. The Garda National Roads Policing Bureau (GNRPB) (Irish: Biúró Náisiúnta an Gharda Síochána um Póilíniú Bóithre) [1] is the roads policing unit of the Garda Síochána. Prior to 2018, it was known as the Garda Traffic Corps (Irish: Cór Tráchta an Gharda Síochána). [2 ...
24 QNI was issued in Northern Ireland for cars with indeterminate age, kit cars. On 1 January 1987, a completely new registration plate system was introduced for new vehicles. Vehicles older than 1987 imported into Ireland from 1987 were not given age-related numbers from the old system but were included in the new system.
The punitive tax on imported cars encouraged a wide range of companies to assemble their cars locally including Fiat, Ford and Renault. [1] From Ireland's entry to the European Union in 1973, the need for locally produced cars to avoid import taxes reduced and since the 1980s, production ended and all cars are now imported.
Motorways in Ireland have a set of restrictions, [4] which prohibit certain traffic from using the road. The following classes of traffic are not allowed on Irish motorways: Learner drivers; Slow vehicles (i.e. not capable of reaching 50 km/h (30 mph) on a level road) Invalid carriages (lightweight three-wheeled vehicles) Pedestrians