How should you prepare highway?

Nowadays it is very important to know how to drive on the highway. Especially in Rotterdam because it can be very busy here. The examiner expects you to be able to do this safely.

Section 1: In what situations you can drive on the highway

There are some conditions you have to follow in order to drive on the highway. The examiners are aware of this. They are carefully checking the driving skills of all the candidates in driving school Rotterdam. There are three situations you must meet if you want to drive on the highway:

There are a lot of other traffic

 

The traffic is going very slowly, the traffic behind you is also slowing down and a car that is also trying to get into the lane from behind is being very close This is the situation if you are traveling near the start or end of the highway. There are normally traffic police on duty to help you.

 

The speed limit for your vehicle

 

Your vehicle is not capable of driving faster than the legal speed limit. If you drive faster, you should be sure you can handle it.

 

Rules for driving on motorways

If you want to drive on a motorway, you have to have a car license for it. You can do this when you are 16 years old. You have to be able to drive a car with a manual transmission on a motorway.

 

Rules for driving on dual carriageways

 

If you don’t want to drive on a motorway, you have to get a car license for it when you are 18 years old. On dual carriageways, you can drive automatic transmission cars. You can do this on motorways too, but the rules are different. The dual carriageway is a road with more lanes, so you can drive on more carriageways and you need to follow a few rules.

 

Rules for driving on the ring road

 

If you want to drive on the ring road, you have to have a car license for it when you are 18 years old. On the ring road, you can drive automatic transmission cars.

 

Preparations for driving on the highway

It’s very important that you are able to drive efficiently on the highway. You should know your vehicle. Know what gear to be in, where to turn and what to expect when making turns.

 

If you have a manual car it’s important that you know how to drive it on the highway too. But I think that having a car with an electronic drive should be even better.

 

Try to start your car in first gear, so that it can go slower but that you can switch over to second gear.

 

After that, in second gear, it’s important that you let the car accelerate in neutral before you accelerate. This allows you to steer to the right. The car then accelerates faster. After you let the car accelerate in second gear, you need to bring your hand down from the wheel so that the car can accelerate faster.

 

Conclusion

I hope that this post helped you to understand how to pass the Rotterdam driving test if you wish to drive on the Dutch highway. I know the Rotterdam driving test is quite hard and I haven’t tried to do the test so I can’t speak for other countries, but I believe this is what a good test should look like.

 

Happy Driving!