Heavy Vehicle Courses in Sydney

Light Rigid (LR) Licence

A Light Rigid (MR) Licence allows you to drive:

• Small trucks with a gross vehicle mass (GVM) up to 8 tonnes. Any towed trailer must not weigh more than nine tonnes GVM
• Buses that seat more than 12 adults including the driver and a GVM up to 8 tonnes.

Requirements:

• Have held a class C licence, (except a learner licence) or equivalent for one year or more. Any time you’ve spent on a P1 licence counts, but you can’t practice to drive an LR vehicle, or upgrade to an LR licence until you hold a P2 or full class C licence
• Pass the LR knowledge test
• Pass an eyesight test
• Successfully complete HVCBA, or pass a Roads and Maritime driving test.

Medium Rigid (MR) Licence

A Medium Rigid (MR) Licence allows you to drive:

• Trucks and buses with a GVM more than eight tonnes and two axles
• Any towed trailer must not weigh more than nine tonnes GVM.

Also offered:

Road Ranger License & Condition B Removal

• Constant mesh trucks equipped with road ranger or crash box transmissions
• Courses for automatic and syncromesh-equipped trucks

Requirements:

• Have held a class C licence, (except a learner licence) or equivalent for one year or more. Any time you’ve spent on a P1 licence counts, but you can’t practice to drive an MR vehicle, or upgrade to an MR licence until you hold a P2 or full class C licence
• Pass the MR knowledge test
• Pass an eyesight test
• Successfully complete HVCBA, or pass a Roads and Maritime driving test.

Heavy Rigid (HR) Licence

A Heavy Rigid (HR) Licence allows you to drive:

• Rigid vehicles (Truck, bus, tow trailer) with three or more axles
• Vehicles with GVM up to 9 tonnes, and much more

Also offered:

Road Ranger License & Condition B Removal

• Constant mesh trucks equipped with road ranger or crash box transmissions
• Courses for automatic and syncromesh-equipped trucks

Requirements:

• Have held a class C licence, (except a learner licence) or equivalent for two years or more
• Pass the HR knowledge & eyesight test
• Successfully complete HVCBA, or pass a Roads and Maritime driving test

Heavy Combination (HC) Truck Licence

Improve your career by driving:

• Any type of articulated truck with three or more axles including unladen dolly
• A Prime mover with one semi-trailer
• HR vehicle towing a single trailer with a GVM greater than 9 tonnes

Our HC course covers:

• Pre-operational check and cabin drill
• Trailer coupling and uncoupling
• Start, move off, shut down and secure
• Management of steering, gears, brakes and accelerator
• Create, maintain and protect crash avoidance space
• Application of road rules and directions
• Reversing and parking
• Hill stops and starts
• Load securing
• Trailer coupling and uncoupling
• Final competency assessment

Requirements:

• A class MR or HR licence which you’ve held for at least a year
• Completion of the Roads and Maritime Services drivers knowledge test
• The HVCBA guidebook to read before starting the training

Multi Combination (MC) Licence

Be an expert with our MC Courses for:

• B-doubles
• Prime mover, low loader dolly and low loader trailer combinations
• Road trains

Requirements:

• Have held an HR or HC licence or equivalent for at least one year
• Pass an MC knowledge test
• Pass an eyesight test
• Successfully complete HVCBA. If you hold an HR licence, you’ll need to pass an HC
• assessment before you can start MC training
• Pass a medical examination