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Passenger transport questions — D licence
140 exam-style Passenger transport questions for the D licence with correct answer and explanation. Practice free, no signup.
- For special regular public school transport covered by Article 1(a) of Royal Decree 443/2001, who gives prior notice of the stops to the competent traffic-regulation authority?
- On a motorway outside a built-up area, under normal conditions, what is the minimum speed at which a bus equipped with seatbelts and not used for the transport of minors must travel?
- If you are driving a bus and carrying out a discretionary public passenger transport service where at least three-quarters of the passengers are under 16 years old, you must know that the accompanying person...
- If you are driving a bus carrying out discretionary public passenger transport, where at least three-quarters of the passengers are under 16 years old, you must know that the accompanying person:
- Driving a D1 or D bus with poorly adjusted mirrors:
- A blind person travels with a guide dog recognised as an assistance dog and meets the required hygiene, health and safety conditions. May the person board a public bus with the dog?
- In interurban passenger transport services by road, contracted by seat with individual payment, which children who do not occupy a seat do not require a ticket?
- For vehicles registered in 2020 to which no exemption under Royal Decree 1417/2005 applies, which bus categories must have a limiter preventing speeds above 100 km/h?
- On a bus service covered by Article 1 of Royal Decree 443/2001, which proportion of passengers under 12 makes an attendant compulsory, independently of other grounds?
- You drive a vehicle intended for passenger transport with more than nine seats. What blood alcohol concentration must you not exceed?
- When an accompanying adult is required on school transport, where must that person occupy a seat?
- The driver of a city bus must know that its doors...
- Outside a built-up area, where should a voluntary stop or parking of a bus generally take place on a conventional road?
- A bus is not equipped with seat belts. On paved roads outside built-up areas, with no lower specific limit, what maximum speed applies?
- Under Article 11 of Royal Decree 443/2001, how must routes and schedules for transporting children between home and school be planned?
- Must a bus be equipped with a rear fog light?
- When do the regulations on safety conditions for the transport of schoolchildren and minors apply to regular public passenger transport for general use on the road?
- To drive a bus with a capacity of 20 people, including the driver, towing a trailer with a maximum authorised mass (MAM) of 650 kg, what driving licence do you need, at a minimum?
- A bus authorised to carry standing passengers is carrying them on a paved conventional road outside a built-up area. With no applicable lower limit, what is its maximum speed?
- Under Order FOM/1230/2013, a bus providing a public charter passenger service, outside its listed exemptions, must carry...
- For transport of minors covered by Royal Decree 443/2001, which of these situations requires an adult to supervise boarding and alighting?
- On a bus, aisles and emergency exits must be kept:
- Among vehicle categories intended for passenger transport, which must have a speed limiter under Royal Decree 1417/2005 when their registration date brings them within its scope and no exemption applies?
- If you are carrying out a school and minors' transport service on a two-door bus, where an attendant is not required, through which door must the minors get on and off the vehicle?
- Under the Land Transport Regulation Act (LOTT), how can public road passenger transport be classified?
- As a general rule, what maximum length, including any load, must a rigid three-axle bus with 60 seats not exceed in order to be permitted to travel?
- What is the minimum driving licence for a tourist train carrying 20 people, including the driver?
- By mode of provision, how does Article 64 of the LOTT classify public road passenger transport?
- Which buses must carry, among their equipment, an approved fire-extinguishing device that is suitable and in usable condition?
- If you drive a bus, you should know that vehicle category M3 corresponds to...
- Under Article 1 of Order FOM/1230/2013, which of these domestic bus services must carry a journey sheet?
- Does an adaptable mixed-use vehicle, with a maximum of nine seats including the driver, become a bus merely because it carries people?
- You are driving a bus on a motorway, outside a built-up area, behind a lorry towing a trailer. Are you allowed to overtake it if, to carry out the manoeuvre, you would have to exceed a speed of 100 kilometres per hour?
- Which buses may a category D1 licence holder drive?
- In a D1 or D bus, passengers and hand luggage also must not:
- In general, because of their design characteristics, motorways and dual carriageways are...
- Under the use-based classification in Annex II of the General Vehicle Regulations, which buses are defined as not carrying standing passengers?
- If a school bus transports people with reduced mobility, as a general rule, must it have reserved seats for these passengers?
- For an adult school-bus driver, which of these breath-alcohol readings exceeds the regulatory maximum?
- A user of an accredited, duly identified assistance dog wants to board a public bus. Health and safety conditions are met. Although the dog is not a guide dog, what should the driver do?
- A bus is classified by use as “08 Long-distance”. May it carry standing passengers?
- Is a bus that, by construction, cannot exceed a speed of 100 km/h required to have a speed limiter fitted?
- On a bus fitted with seat belts in the passenger seats, must the driver inform passengers that their use is compulsory, in the absence of audiovisual means, signs or pictograms?
- For a special regular public school transport service governed by Royal Decree 443/2001, which of these situations requires an escort on board?
- Under Spain’s Land Transport Regulation Act, what characterises complementary private transport?
- If you are undergoing drug treatment and need to drive, should you take any special precautions?
- On a public collective passenger bus subject to SOV, a covered collision injures insured passengers and the driver on duty. Whom can that insurance protect?
- As regards the driving licence, may a holder of a valid D licence drive a suitable bus on a school service that meets all other legal requirements?
- What licence category is required, as a minimum, to drive a bus designed for 19 passengers plus the driver, towing a trailer with a maximum authorised mass of 650 kg?
- Must a bus intended for the public passenger service have lighting inside the passenger compartment?
- For school transport subject to Royal Decree 443/2001 between home and school, how must routes and schedules be planned under normal circumstances?
- What licence category is required, as a minimum, to drive a 40-seat bus towing a light trailer with a maximum authorised mass of up to 750 kg?
- For home-to-school transport governed by Royal Decree 443/2001, how must routes and schedules be planned regarding each child’s time aboard under normal circumstances?
- Must a bus intended for public passenger transport have interior cabin lighting?
- Under Regulation 2018/858 type-approval categories, which characteristics identify an M3 vehicle primarily designed for passengers and their luggage?
- On a bus, how should passengers and hand luggage be accommodated without compromising safety?
- For school or minors’ transport covered by Royal Decree 443/2001, may a double-decker bus be used if it has not been type-approved under UNECE Regulation 107?
- If, due to a fault in your bus's air conditioning, the heat became so intense that passengers made a complaint, could you carry out the contracted service by driving with the front door open?
- Which buses must be equipped with direction indicators providing hazard-warning signalling, meaning indicators flashing simultaneously?
- On school transport covered by Royal Decree 443/2001 where an escort is required, no agreement assigns escort accreditation to the carrier. Who must accredit that person?
- Depending on the scope in which passenger transport is carried out, it is classified as:
- A bus with more than nine places including the driver has two rigid sections joined by an articulated section, with passenger passage between them. What is it called?
- A bus has two rigid parts joined by an articulated section allowing passengers to move between them. The parts can only be connected or separated in a workshop. What is this vehicle called?
- If you are driving a bus intended for the transport of schoolchildren and minors, what is the maximum alcohol concentration per litre of exhaled air that you must not exceed?
- An adult drives a vehicle intended for passenger transport with more than nine places. What maximum blood alcohol concentration must they not exceed?
- What is the minimum speed at which a bus used for school transport is permitted to travel on a motorway under normal conditions?
- On a bus required to display the V-9 public-service identification, where are its S.P. plates fitted?
- When driving a bus, harsh braking can be especially dangerous because:
- In passenger transport, regarding people with reduced mobility, the driver must:
- When positioning the load or luggage carried on a bus, what must be avoided?
- To be allowed to drive, what is the maximum length, including load, that a rigid bus with 4 axles and 60 seats may have?
- For a bus service covered by Royal Decree 443/2001, which of these circumstances requires an accompanying attendant?
- On a regular passenger bus service to which the ordinary baggage-allowance regime applies, what maximum weight is included in the ticket without an additional charge?
- On a bus fitted with seat belts, before or at the start of the journey passengers subject to the rule should be reminded that:
- For a Spanish public passenger bus service operating in Spain, is compulsory passenger insurance (SOV) required for both urban and interurban services?
- Under ROTT Article 129, if a periodic tourist transport service with a repeated itinerary coincides with a regular public service and no exemption has been granted, what minimum must the contracted package price meet?
- While passengers are boarding or alighting, the bus driver must not:
- Can a current general requirement to display a bus’s front origin-and-destination sign be based on Article 8 of Order FOM/1230/2013?
- When must an ordinary category M2 or M3 bus, newly registered for the first time, undergo its first periodic ITV?
- Before moving off with a bus after a passenger stop, what boarding-and-alighting check is necessary?
- Under the use-based classification in Annex II of the General Vehicle Regulations, which buses are defined as not carrying standing passengers?
- You drive a coach on a motorway. With no breakdown or emergency, a passenger asks to get off at an unscheduled stop. May you stop on the ordinary shoulder outside an area designated for stopping?
- For an adult driver of a bus intended for passenger transport with more than nine seats including the driver’s seat, what breath-alcohol concentration must not be exceeded?
- When an escort is mandatory on school transport, what age requirement must that person meet in addition to the service’s other requirements?
- With temperatures near or below freezing, which areas particularly favour ice forming or remaining on the road?
- Under Article 3 of Royal Decree 443/2001, meeting applicable requirements and excluding the special territorial regime, may school-transport buses and minors’ transport buses exceed ten years at the start of the school year?
- For safety, which of these breath-alcohol concentrations is recommended for an adult bus driver transporting minors, distinguishing the recommendation from the legal limit?
- On a bus, passenger boarding and alighting must take place:
- For a bus, under the definition in Annex IX of the General Vehicle Regulations, what is its unladen mass plus the standard 75 kg driver mass and the standard 75 kg crew member mass, if one is carried, called?
- As a general rule, is smoking prohibited in vehicles used for school transport and the transport of minors?
- A bus with seat belts and all passengers seated travels on a motorway outside a built-up area. It performs neither school/minor transport nor another special transport operation, and no lower limit applies. What general maximum must it also observe when overtaking?
- If your bus, used for school transport, has 17 seats and is six years old, how often must it undergo the periodic roadworthiness inspection (ITV)?
- To provide non-exempt public occasional passenger transport by bus within Spain, is the vehicle registration document enough?
- An articulated bus with all passengers seated and fitted with seatbelts travels on a paved conventional road outside a built-up area. It is not providing school or minors’ transport and has no lower limit or other special regime. What is its general maximum speed?
- In addition to observing the legal limit, which breath-alcohol level is the safest recommendation for a bus driver transporting minors?
- A bus with all passengers seated and fitted with seatbelts travels on a dual carriageway outside a built-up area, with no lower limit or other special regime. It is not providing school or minors’ transport. What is its general maximum while overtaking?
- On a bus, hand luggage and other objects must not:
- Article 4.2.5 of Royal Decree 443/2001 requires UN Regulation 66 approval for certain school or minors’ transport vehicles. Which vehicles does that provision refer to?
- Under Spain’s Land Transport Regulation Act, what characterises complementary private transport?
- On a bus, hand luggage or passengers' items must be placed so that:
- The interior lighting of the bus:
- As a general rule, with no applicable exemption, must the driver of a 60-seat bus use the seatbelt fitted to their seat?
- A bus operates a regular public passenger service open to general use, stopping where there are no fixed facilities authorised to sell tickets. Must a complaints book or complaint forms be available to passengers?
- A company provides school or minor-passenger transport covered by Royal Decree 443/2001. In addition to complying with compulsory insurance legislation, what civil-liability coverage must it have?
- After driving, you check the tyres while they are still hot. Their cold pressure before the trip was correct and you observe no damage or other fault symptoms. The reading now exceeds the recommended cold value. What should you do?
- From what age can a D1 licence be obtained under the exception requiring an ordinary initial-qualification CAP?
- The effective mass of the vehicle and its load, including passengers, is known as:
- In a bus incident, the driver must know and apply:
- As a general rule, with no applicable exemption, must the driver of a 60-seat bus use the seatbelt fitted to their seat?
- For an adult driver of a bus used for transporting minors, what is the maximum permitted breath-alcohol concentration?
- On a bus required to provide a complaints book or complaint forms under Order FOM/1230/2013, must there be a notice informing passengers that they are available?
- Which licence authorises you to drive a bus suitable for carrying 20 passengers and towing a light trailer?
- On a bus, the driver must move off again after a stop:
- When must a bus intended for transporting children undergo the ITV inspection?
- In a test for the D1 and D licences, the examiner may check that the applicant is wearing:
- Must buses have a speed limiter?
- An adult driver drives a bus carrying 35 passengers. What maximum blood alcohol concentration does the rule set for this driver?
- An adult passenger with no legal exemption occupies a seat fitted with a seat belt on a bus. When must they wear it correctly fastened?
- To drive a D1 or D bus safely, it is advisable to keep especially clean:
- A blind person wants to board a public-service bus with their guide dog, recognised and identified as an assistance dog and meeting the applicable access conditions. Must you allow them to board?
- At age 18 and with ordinary CAP, the D licence allows driving only:
- As a general rule, is smoking prohibited in vehicles used for school transport and the transport of minors?
- On a public-service bus, does compulsory passenger insurance protect only passengers with paid tickets?
- Under ROTT Article 129, if a periodic tourist transport service with a repeated itinerary coincides with a regular public service and no exemption has been granted, what minimum must the contracted package price meet?
- A vehicle in which the areas intended for passengers are arranged, at least partially, on two overlapping levels, the upper one of which has no standing places, is a…
- A 17-seat school bus is six years old from its first registration, with no special inspection regime. How often must it undergo periodic ITV?
- Which vehicle categories used for school or minors transport governed by Royal Decree 443/2001 must have hazard warning lights for boarding and alighting stops?
- A vehicle has two floors, one above the other, and passengers are on both floors. The upper floor has passenger seats, and there are no standing passengers. What type of vehicle is it?
- As a general rule, which document proves passenger status for compulsory passenger insurance (SOV) benefits after an accident on a public-service bus?
- A bus whose approval requires its main left-hand exterior rear-view mirror, with no approved alternative system replacing it, has lost that mirror. May it be driven normally in that condition?
- Under the general limit in Annex IX, what is the maximum authorised mass of a two-axle Class I urban bus?
- At age 21 and with accelerated CAP, the D licence allows passenger transport:
- According to the regulations on safety conditions for school transport and the transport of minors, if an attendant is compulsory, which seat must they occupy?
- In a bus fitted with seat belts, occupants must:
- In mainland Spain, for special-use regular public school transport under Article 1(a) of Royal Decree 443/2001, what is the vehicle’s general maximum age at the start of the school year, without relying on exceptional admission?
- Before moving off again with a bus, the driver must make sure that:
- On a bus fitted with seat belts, adult passengers with no applicable exemption must...
- Luggage carried on a bus must be:
- The braking distance of a D1 or D bus:
- In a bus, emergency exits must be kept:
How to ace the passenger transport questions on the D licence
Passenger transport questions are usually among the highest-failure areas in the D licence exam. Each of the 140 exam-style questions here includes the options, the correct answer and an explanation of why it's correct.
The most effective way to master this topic is to alternate syllabus reading with question practice. Start by reading the full topic, then click into any question to study it in detail. Failed questions enter the smart-review queue until you master them.
Frequently asked questions about passenger transport on the D licence
- How many passenger transport questions are in the D licence question bank?
- Our exam-style question bank includes 140 passenger transport questions for the D licence. Each comes with the correct answer and explanation.
- How should I study passenger transport for the D licence exam?
- The D test has 20 questions. Use this bank to practise passenger transport with explanations, and combine topic review with full mock exams.
- What are the most common passenger transport mistakes?
- Three typical causes: 1) misreading prompts with decisive keywords ("always", "never", "except", "only", "at least") — they flip the correct answer; 2) switching correct answers in the final review due to self-induced doubt; 3) studying only by topic without full simulations, which penalises block-switching speed.
- How should I practise passenger transport to prepare for the D licence?
- Alternate three modes: first study the full topic syllabus; then practise the 140 exam-style passenger transport questions until you understand the logic of each; finally launch full D-licence simulations (20 questions, max 2 wrong) to train block-switching under pressure.