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Sweden makes two risk courses compulsory before you are allowed to sit the theory test for a category B licence, and the second one is the hard part to get hold of. Transportstyrelsen’s public register of approved providers lists 942 permit holders for the theoretical part and 82 for the skid pan part. Those 82 … Read more
Seven Swedish traffic rules that surprise drivers from abroad, from giving way to the right to winter tyres, each with the national on-the-spot fine attached.
You had your eyes tested at home a few months before the move, the optician said everything was fine, and now the Swedish application for a learner’s permit asks for a synintyg. It is a fair hope that the test you already paid for will cover it. That test will not cover it, and the … Read more
Photo: Gustavo Fring via Pexels There is no official list of Swedish driving schools that teach in English. Transportstyrelsen, the Swedish Transport Agency, keeps a public register of approved driving schools that have agreed to be listed, and that register records the permit, the company and the address. It says nothing at all about the … Read more
Photo: Gustavo Fring via Pexels The practical driving test is the last gate before a Swedish licence, and it is the one that costs the most to get wrong. A category B driving test (körprov) is priced separately from the theory test and costs well over twice as much, the fee is charged again for … Read more
Photo: Ron Lach via Pexels Plenty of expat families in Sweden end up supervising a teenager’s, a partner’s or a friend’s private practice driving at some point, and the rules around that role, known here as being a handledare, are less obvious than they first appear. Approval does not run out after a fixed period … Read more
Photo: Daniel Moqvist via Unsplash Moving to Sweden with a driving licence from another country raises a practical question fast: can you just keep driving on it, or does it need to become a Swedish one at some point? A licence from an EU or EEA country never has to be exchanged. A licence from … Read more
For people who move to Malmö from abroad, the Swedish licence process holds one reassuring detail: you do not have to sit the theory test in Swedish. Trafikverket, the state agency that runs the official exams, offers the category B knowledge test (kunskapsprov) in English and a range of other languages. Knowing exactly how that … Read more