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Category D

Home Driving licenses Category D

Starting your training

To begin your training, register on our webpage or classrooms.

You can pay through an wire transfer, in e-driving school environment e-autokool.eu or in cash in our classrooms/offices.

Our driving instructors do not tend to invoicing.

Payment options:

  • paying in instalments: pay the first instalment when registering to the course and from there on for at least one driving lesson at a time;
  • you can pay for the entire course at once when registering to the course
  • Businesses can pay with an invoice.
  • Wear closed footwear when coming to training.
  • If you want to use the right to drive a category D vehicle for work, you have to take a also professional training for bus drivers course.
  • Take an identification document with you to the training.
  • When you register to the training, you accept all the terms above and are ready to pass all required training stages.

Category D driving licence gives a right to drive a bus with more than 8 seats in addition to the driver’s seat and also can add a light trailer to it.

Subcategory D1 driving licence gives a right to drive a bus with more than 8 seats, but not over 16 seats, in addition to the driver’s seat and also can add a light trailer to it.

Requirements for starting category D and subcategory D1 training:

The training is suitable to a student who wants to acquire the right to drive category D or subcategory D1 vehicle, whose habitual residence is in Estonia, and who:

  • When applying to acquire the right to drive a category D vehicle, has had category B driving licence for at least one and a half year before the date the student submits an application to register to the course;
  • When applying to acquire the right to drive a subcategory D1 vehicle, has had category B driving licence for at least half a year before the date the student submits an application to register to the course;
  • When applying to acquire the right to drive a category D vehicle, is at least 23,5 years old on the date the training begins;
  • When applying to acquire the right to drive a subcategory D1 vehicle, is at least 20,5 years old on the date the training begins;
  • When applying to acquire the right to drive a category D vehicle, is at least 17,5 years old on the date the training begins, if the person is also taking the combined occupational course of 280 lessons pursuant to the Road Transport Act.

Theory lessons

You can pass the theory lessons as an e-course and watch the course videos at a suitable time, which gives you a chance to fit your lessons in between work, exercising and other everyday activities. E-courses are also convenient if your work/studies are of a periodic nature or you live far from the classrooms and it takes a considerable time to drive there.

Category D courses are also available face-to-face.

Category D includes 21 theory lessons (one lesson lasts 45 min).

Driving lessons

Regardless of whether you take theory as an e-course or face-to-face, you can start your driving lessons in parallel with the theory lessons.

Participants in the face-to-face courses can watch / listen to past lessons for free in the e-driving school if they want to, as well as take tests.

Category D includes 20 driving lessons (one lesson lasts 45 min).

You can check out the curriculum here.

Finishing the training

If you have passed all stages of training, you can apply for an electronic certificate of a first aid training for power-driven vehicle drivers, for which you have to:

  • submit an application through the e-autokool.eu environment
  • submit an application in our offices

In order to apply for the right to drive, you can now also register to exams in a Transport Administration’s traffic register office of your choice or online.

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