Traffic complicates obtaining rights for foreigners and avtobusnik

25 April 2019

Foreigners and bus drivers more in the traffic police in the light of law will not receive

Another batch of ideas about the reform of driver training has been released by the traffic police. In particular, we discuss the prohibition for foreigners to exchange foreign driving licence into Russian, without going through the processes of training and exams. In addition, bus category D, allowing to work as a driver in the passenger transport, will now be given only to citizens with driving experience. In addition, the exam on the right tied to a specific subdivision of the traffic police, which is attributed to driving school.

Deputy chief of traffic police of Russia Nikolai Seewhen told the conference "Safe road" is conceived innovations in the field of issuing driving licenses. Emphasis is placed on toughening of control over the drivers of trucks and buses recently too actively inflate the accident statistics.

Offers for those wishing to obtain a category D to put the condition in the form of existing driving experience not less than one year within categories B, C1 (trucks with GVW of 3.5–7.5 tonnes) or D1 (buses, designed to transport up to 16 passengers, i.e. minibuses). According to Chauchina, the bill of the traffic police is ready.

We will remind that now it is forbidden to operate vehicles without the Russian rights in employment, although for citizens of Kyrgyzstan, as well as countries where Russian language is the official made an exception. However, if the foreign law will conform to the Vienna Convention on road traffic, the study will not have – enough to pass the exam in the traffic police.
Now according to the source "Kommersant", a practice where Russian citizens go to one of the CIS countries (e.g. Ukraine and Kazakhstan), where simply buying the local rights, and on his return to Russia is easy to change them to Russian law, thereby saving on training.