Traffic signs, signals and road markings
What this domain tests
This domain tests whether you can read Danish sign families, supplementary plates, traffic signals and road markings quickly enough to act correctly in a tractor-trailer. The exam concentrates on signs that change priority, prohibit certain vehicles, set weight or dimension limits, and mark cycle and pedestrian facilities.
Sign families and priority signs
- Warning signs are triangular with a red border. They warn of hazards such as junctions, bends, narrow roads, cattle, cyclists or roadworks; they do not by themselves give you priority.
- Prohibition signs are red circles. A red circle with a tractor symbol bans tractors; a weight, width, height or length sign bans vehicles above that limit. A supplementary plate can limit the ban to certain times or goods.
- Mandatory signs are blue circles: keep right, turn right, cycle path, pedestrian path, minimum speed. A blue cycle-path sign means cyclists have their own facility; do not use it as a tractor lane.
- Priority signs: the inverted triangle means yield; the octagon means stop and give way. At a stop sign you must stop at the line even if the road looks clear.
- Information signs are blue or green rectangles. Motorway and expressway signs mark roads where slow tractors are normally prohibited.
Signals and markings
Red means stop; yellow alone means stop unless you are so close that stopping would cause danger; green means proceed only if the exit is clear. Police signals override lights and signs. Solid white lines must not be crossed; broken lines may be crossed when safe. Stop lines, yield triangles and hatched areas show where to stop and where not to drive.
Worked example
You approach a rural junction with an inverted triangle, a thick stop line and a supplementary plate showing a tractor symbol and 7.5 t. The triangle means yield, but the plate bans tractors over 7.5 t from the road ahead. Your combination weighs 9 t. Reasoning: the yield sign tells you to give way, but the prohibition plate independently bans the combination from continuing. You must not enter; choose another route.
Traps that cost marks
- Confusing a no-entry sign with a general prohibition sign.
- Missing supplementary plates that apply the ban to tractors or to your weight.
- Treating a warning sign as a priority sign.
- Stopping at a yield line when the rule is only to give way, or failing to stop at a stop line.
- Ignoring markings for cycle lanes and pedestrian crossings.