Traffic Regulations and Road Signs (CBR Motorcycle Theory A)
This domain tests whether you can read the Dutch road environment quickly and resolve conflicting instructions. The exam does not simply ask you to name a sign; it asks what the sign, the marking and the general rule together require you to do at that moment.
The hierarchy of instructions
When instructions conflict, the order is fixed: traffic controller, then traffic lights, then signs, then road markings, then the general rules of the RVV. A green light never authorises you to ignore a closed lane marked by a red cross.
Reading shapes and colours
- Red-bordered triangle: danger warning. It tells you a hazard is coming but does not by itself change priority.
- Red-bordered circle: prohibition - no entry, no overtaking, a speed limit, or a ban on motorcycles.
- Blue circle: a mandatory direction or requirement. Blue rectangle: information or a place name.
- Yellow diamond (B1): priority road. A version with a black stripe through it ends that priority.
- Inverted triangle (B3) and octagon (B4): give way and stop. Shark teeth painted across your lane repeat the same message.
- Zone signs (zone 30, zone 60) apply to every road inside the area until you pass the matching end-of-zone sign.
Worked example
You approach a T-junction where a yield sign is half hidden behind a tree, but shark teeth are painted across your lane. The teeth alone settle it: you must give way to traffic on the road you are entering, from both directions, stopping only if traffic requires it.
Traps that cost marks
Treating a warning triangle as a priority sign; thinking a blue rectangular sign gives you right of way; assuming a zone limit ends at the next side street instead of at the end-of-zone sign; and forgetting that the 50 km/h built-up limit starts exactly at the place-name sign, not at the first house.