Road traffic law
What the exam tests
The road traffic law domain checks whether you can apply vegtrafikkloven and related regulations to a C1 lorry. Expect questions on licence scope, duties of the driver, priority rules, speed, alcohol, documents and police checks.
Core rules
- A C1 licence covers a light lorry with a permissible total weight from 3,501 kg to 7,500 kg, plus a trailer up to 750 kg. Minimum age is 18, and a medical certificate is required. Commercial goods transport normally requires driver CPC (yrkessjåførkompetanse).
- Norway’s alcohol limit is 0.2 per mille. Fatigue and drugs are treated as serious offences; you must stop when asked by police or inspection authorities.
- General limits: 50 km/h in built-up areas, 80 km/h outside, and 90/100/110 km/h on motorways where signed. A vehicle with trailer is limited to 80 km/h even where a higher limit is posted.
- Keep right, use lights, wear seatbelts, and give way according to signs, road markings and the right-hand rule where no priority is marked.
Worked example
You drive a 7,200 kg C1 lorry with a 700 kg braked trailer on a rural road signed 80 km/h. The road later becomes a motorway signed 100 km/h. What is your maximum speed? Answer: 80 km/h throughout. The C1 combination is legal because the trailer is under 750 kg, but the general trailer limit caps you at 80 km/h; the 100 km/h sign does not raise it.
Traps
Do not confuse C1 with C (rigid lorry over 7,500 kg) or with B+E. Do not assume a 0.5 per mille limit. Do not treat a 7.5 t sign as automatically banning a C1 vehicle: the sign bans vehicles whose permissible total weight exceeds 7.5 t.