Statutory guidance

Large vehicles you can drive using a car or lorry licence

Information leaflet on the types of vehicle you can drive with a car or lorry licence.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
• Published: 19 August 2015
• Last updated: 10 June 2025
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  1. 10 June 2025

     Updated PDF.

  2. 10 November 2022

     Updated INF52.

  3. 28 June 2022

     Updated 'INF52: Large vehicles you can drive using your car or lorry licence' PDF

  4. 6 July 2020

     Update to Welsh version

  5. 12 June 2020

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  6. 17 April 2019

     Added translation

  7. 28 March 2019

     Updated pdf.

  8. 25 October 2016

     INF52W updated.

  9. 20 October 2016

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  10. 22 September 2016

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  11. 1 September 2016

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  12. 29 September 2015

      Welsh version of INF52 added.

  13. 19 August 2015

      First published.

Documents

INF52: Large vehicles you can drive using your car or lorry licence

Ref: INF52

PDF, 742 KB, 12 pages

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Details

This information leaflet covers:

• goods vehicles that can be driven with a full car licence
• buses that can be driven with a full car licence
• minimum ages
• descriptions of vehicle categories before 19 January 2013
• descriptions of vehicle categories on or after 19 January 2013

You can view your driving licence information online.