Road traffic law and obligations of the tractor driver
What this domain tests
This section checks that you treat a tractor as a motor vehicle under Danish traffic law, not as farm equipment exempt from ordinary rules. The exam asks about licence category, documents, lights, passengers, use on different road types and the driver's general duties.
Core legal duties
- A tractor is a motor vehicle. You must hold the correct Danish category: T for a solo tractor and TM for the tractor-trailer combination covered by this test. Carry your licence and produce it on request.
- The tractor must be registered and insured as required, and any periodic inspection must be current. A trailer needs its own registration and insurance where the rules require it.
- Obey færdselsloven, signs, signals and speed limits. A tractor's constructional maximum is generally 40 km/h; a higher road limit does not authorise a higher tractor speed. Tractors are not normal motorway vehicles.
- Use prescribed lights and, where required, the slow-moving vehicle triangle. Wear a seat belt if fitted. Passengers may ride only in an approved seat, never on the drawbar, linkage or trailer load.
- Before driving, check coupling, trailer lights, brakes, tyres and load security. You remain responsible even if someone else loaded the trailer.
Worked example
A 17-year-old with category TM drives a tractor and trailer at 48 km/h on an 80 km/h rural road. A police check finds the trailer lights working and the load secured. The offence is speed: the road limit is 80, but the tractor combination's permitted maximum is 40 km/h. The correct response is to reduce speed to 40 and ensure licence, registration and insurance cover the combination. TM does not raise the tractor's speed limit.
Traps that cost marks
- Treating the tractor as exempt from færdselsloven because it is used for agricultural work.
- Confusing the posted road speed with the vehicle's maximum permitted speed.
- Forgetting that towing a trailer can require TM and separate trailer documents.
- Carrying passengers in the trailer or on a non-approved seat.
- Assuming a farm vehicle automatically has right of way.