The numbers engraved on your driving license have a precise meaning: if you don’t know what they mean, you risk a very heavy fine.
There driver’s license it may seem like an easy document to read: it contains all our information, from name and surname, up to the date of birth and date of obtaining the license.
The even more interesting part is the back one, where they are indicated all types of existing licenseseach dedicated to granting authorization for a certain category of vehicles.
For example, if you have the type B licence, you will find the achievement date in the box that identifies it. The same naturally applies to all other types of license, with a symbol that gives us a generic idea of the vehicle that can be driven.
It often happens that together with the achievement date there are gods next to it numbers that indicate something very important: these are limitations on the type of vehicle that can be driven, even if it is a vehicle belonging to the correct category.
Making mistakes is easy and now we help you understand how to find out the meaning of those numbers and, above all, how much the fines would amount to in the event of an infringement.
Pay attention to the numbers engraved on the licence: their meaning and the expected fines
You are surely aware of the fact that driving a vehicle with the wrong license it can cost you dearly, even if you have to make some appropriate distinctions.
Indeed, one can speak of less serious offence in case you drive with the wrong license number, but with the correct category. For example, B1 instead of B, C1 instead of C, D1 instead of D, and so on.
The fine is salty, it arrives up to 4000 euros and with suspension of the license from 4 to 8 months. But it has nothing to do with the more serious case.
Let’s talk about those situations in which you are driving with a patently wrong license: the vehicle is type C and you “only” have a B driving licence. Well, here we go heavy with fines which, in the most serious cases, can reach 30,000 eurosdetention of the vehicle, suspension of the license and, in case of recidivism within two years, even the contestation of the criminal offence.
Now, let’s go see what do those codes mean which you can find from time to time in some licenses. We don’t know if yours has one, but each group of codes belongs to a specific category of limitations or modifications necessary to the vehicle, perhaps due to the driver’s state of health.
By way of example, code group 15 indicates the modified clutch, group 20 refers to braking systems, the code 01.01 signals the obligation to wear glasses while driving and so on.
One of the most popular is the code 78which indicates the possibility of driving vehicles with automatic transmission and is usually associated with a motorcycle driving licence.
In short, knowing well what your driving license means is important to avoid running into frankly avoidable penalties. If yours also has a additional code on the achievement date, immediately do a specific search to understand what it is.
