The new version of the "Regulations on the Application and Use of Motor Vehicle Driving Licenses", which came into effect on April 1 this year, added a quasi-driving "light tow trailer". This also means that if you have a C1 and C2 driver's license, you will have the opportunity to apply for a C6 driver's license to increase driving, and future driving a trailer-mounted motorhome on the road. What chain reactions will the C6 driver's license cause when it goes online? What else do you need to prepare for the hassle-free journey?
Driving school caravan driving training is hot
At 10:00 a.m., at a training site at the Oriental Fashion Driving School in Daxing District, Student Mr. Xue was practicing the pile test project in C6 Driver's License Subject 2. Next week, he's going to take the test as one of the first batch of test takers at the driving school.
Mr. Xue: "Playing with this caravan, as well as trailers and motor boats, all need this trailer to drive, I have been practicing for four or five days, or the most difficult to dump the library." I found a lot of feelings through the coach's teaching. I'm still more confident about next week's exam. ”
Students practicing the "pile exam" exam project/reporter shoot
From April 1, the newly revised "Regulations on the Application and Use of Motor Vehicle Driving Licenses" was officially implemented, and the new regulations clearly stipulate that light traction trailers need to obtain a professional C6 driving license. Yan Wenhui, general manager of Oriental Fashion Driving School Co., Ltd., said that from mid-February to now, the driving school has enrolled nearly 300 C6 driving test students.
Yan Wenhui: "In the more than one month since the middle of February this year, we have recruited nearly 300 students, mainly in the range of 45 to 55 years old, the largest is more than 60 years old, and the youngest is less than 30 years old. Nearly 150 trainees have been trained to meet the standards. ”
According to the new regulations, those who originally held an A2 quasi-driving license, who have cancelled their A2 driving license due to reaching the age of 60 or voluntarily demoted, and now there is a need to drive a light traction trailer, do not need to take an exam, and can directly apply to the Vehicle Management Office to endorse the C6 quasi-driving qualification.
Photo by Ren Xuejiao, beijing's first C6 licensed driver/journalist
Applicants for a C6 quasi-driving type driver's license must have obtained a C1 or C2 or above quasi-driving type driver's license, and the current scoring cycle and the most recent scoring cycle before the application have not scored 12 points, and the age should be over 20 years old and under 60 years old. Zhao Xin, director of the Vehicle Management Institute of the Beijing Municipal Traffic Management Bureau, said that those between the ages of 60 and 70 can also apply for a C6 driver's license after passing the ability tests such as memory, judgment and reaction. After applying, the driver needs to test the common sense of safe and civilized driving in subjects 2 and 3.
Zhao Xin: "Subject 2 examination items include pile examination, curve driving, right angle turning three items, focusing on the driver's perception, judgment and operation of the body position, moving trajectory, etc., to ensure the safe driving ability of light traction trailers." ”
Trailer motorhome sales heat up
The C6 driver's license has set the RV driving training on fire and heated up the trailer market. On the afternoon of April 7, although it was a weekday, many customers in the Caravan World Park in Changyang Town, Fangshan District, came to buy a car.
Customer: "During this time, I have been paying attention to this caravan market, which is to see its comfort and portability. ”
Customer: "Look at the trailer, I mainly see if it is convenient." Driving that big car is not convenient to play in the city. ”
Customer: "In fact, my first concern is the setting and structure of the caravan, including some configurations of its entire panels and furniture, and the most important thing is the safety of the caravan." ”
Located in Fangshan District, the caravan world park / reporter shooting
Affected by the epidemic and other factors, the number of foreign customers who come to the store to buy a car has decreased compared with previous years, but the number of local customers and online customers has increased a lot. Yang Bo, general manager of Holiday Camp Beijing Caravan Camp co., Ltd., said that most of the customers who came to consult were middle-aged and elderly groups.
Yang Bo: "During this time, many people actually came to consult through WeChat, public accounts and telephones. The group of people who buy RVs, the middle-aged and elderly groups are very large. Young people are affected by factors such as time and income, and the proportion is relatively small. ”
The salesperson introduces the caravan to the customer / The reporter shoots
The reporter visited and found that the price of trailer-mounted RVs currently ranges from 50,000 yuan to 600,000 to 700,000 yuan. Yang Bo reminded consumers that when buying a trailer-mounted caravan, in addition to considering the attributes of the "house", it is more important to pay attention to the characteristics of the "car".
Yang Bo: "Many people are interested in the interior decoration style, the color of the curtains, whether the sofa has leather, and they are concerned about the attributes of the 'room', not in the attributes of the 'car'. The attributes of the car include its safety and stability, the time of the warranty, the reliability and convenience of the appliances used. ”
Various RVs/reporters are on sale
According to statistics, the annual sales of self-propelled caravans in mainland China reached more than 12,000 units last year, an increase of 43.2% year-on-year, and more than 3,500 tractor-trailer caravans were traded. At present, affected by driving safety and the versatility of driver's licenses, consumers are mainly self-propelled RVs under 6 meters.
Cui Dongshu, secretary general of the National Passenger Car Market Information Joint Association, believes that in the future, the trailer-mounted caravan with affordable price, spacious space and strong practicality is expected to become a "fragrant feast".
Cui Dongshu: "Trailer caravans belong to a relatively niche field, and in the past there was no strict effective management in this area. Through the promotion of C6 driver's license, a faster development can be obtained. ”
There are "new rules" in front and rear cars
Are there any requirements for trailer motorhomes for the car in front? During the visit, the reporter found that most of the sales staff of the trailer motorhome claimed that the front car only needed to meet a certain displacement or weight requirement.
Sales: "As long as the front car displacement is enough, you can drag it, you can drag the displacement of the motorhome with a single axle above 2.0T." ”
Sales: "This is now that we don't have any requirements in China, one requirement is that the front car must be heavier than the rear car, and it can be dragged." ”
In fact, the new version of the "Regulations on the Application and Use of Motor Vehicle Driving Licenses" light traction trailers have clear requirements for both front and rear vehicles. Shen Yuhui, a police officer of the law enforcement supervision squadron of the Beijing Vehicle Management Institute, said that in addition to requiring the total mass of the front and rear vehicles to be less than 4.5 tons, the new regulations also require that the front car must have a "quasi-traction total mass".
Shen Yuhui: "C6 driver's license it is called car train, tractor generally imported off-road vehicles more, some cars should also be OK, this depends on whether there is a 'quasi-traction total mass' on the driving license." The 'quasi-traction total mass' is also greater than the total mass of the trailer, and the front tractor must have a traction hook in addition to the interface of the signal and the synchronous matching of the trailer signal. In addition, the rear car can only be a mid-axle trailer, and it must have a number plate. ”
Motorhome/reporter photo on sale
The reporter randomly visited a number of car sales stores in the city and found that most of the small private cars did not indicate the quasi-traction quality in the driving license. At a long-town car sales store in Fengtai District, the sales staff said that only one pickup truck in the store had traction qualifications.
Sales: "Now it's the pickup truck trailer version of this belt traction qualification, the others don't." Recently, two or three people have come to ask about this kind of car almost every day. Six or seven units have been sold in the past few days. ”
Vehicles with traction qualifications are driven/sourced from the network
There are already more than 7,000 caravan-related enterprises in the mainland, and from 2017 to 2021, the average growth rate of new enterprise registration is as high as 28.1%. Cui Dongshu, secretary general of the National Passenger Car Market Information Joint Association, suggested that in the future, the manufacturers of the former car can consider putting the design and labeling of the vehicle's traction function on the agenda.
Cui Dongshu: "Because the domestic caravan culture did not rise particularly early, there is no clear explanation of the design or logo of the traction function. Manufacturers of future vehicles should make some explicit or recommended measures to have a corresponding explanation for the traction function of each model. ”
Motorhome tours are springing up
The spring breeze of the C6 driver's license has also blown to the trailer rental market and related tourism industries. In the Zhuo Ai caravan town of Flower Harbor in Shunyi District, tourist Ms. Guo is lying comfortably in the caravan to rest, and during the Qingming holiday, her daughter took her to experience the charm of caravan camping for the first time.
Ms. Guo: "After entering this caravan, the feeling of staying in a hotel and a guesthouse is different from that before, it is very hygienic and warm. It was grilled last night and they will provide a grill which is quite novel. ”
RV/reporter shoot in Zhuo Ai RV Town
70% of the business of Zhuo Ai Caravan Town is related to caravan hotels, and another 30% of the business involves caravan leasing, self-driving and other sectors. Zhang Ruimin, general manager of the company, said that in recent years, customers have a trend of rejuvenation, and more and more customers have begun to change from "housing vehicles" to "driving caravans".
Zhang Ruimin: "From 2016 to now, we will serve nearly 10,000 groups of customers every year, and Qingming Festival has been operating at full capacity. At the beginning, the main users after 70 can account for 50%, 40% after 80%, only 10% after 90%, and now the backbone is after 80, and the share of post-90s is increasing, and it has been 25%. Many guests will ask if this caravan is easy to drive? What kind of car can pull a motorhome away? ”
All the facilities in the RV are readily available / Photographed by the reporter
Experts: It still takes a lot of effort to get around
However, it may be too early to enjoy the fun of driving a motorhome without worry everywhere. According to statistics, as of December 2020, there are 1,063 caravan campgrounds in China, mainly distributed in the coastal areas of North China and East China. A number of motorhome self-driving enthusiasts also said that they had encountered problems such as the small number of caravan camps, low configuration and poor service during their travels.
RV enthusiasts: "Mature RV camps abroad have supporting public restaurants, including places to bathe and wash clothes. However, these caravan camps in China, one is a small number, and then some supporting facilities for water and electricity, including some auxiliary living facilities, are not so perfect. ”
RV enthusiasts: "There are few camps, the camp facilities are not so comprehensive, the sewage wells are basically gone, and basically everyone is in a ravine in the suburbs."
Photo courtesy of the camping event held by Zhuo Ai Caravan Town/interviewee
In the view of Wu Liyun, associate professor of the China Culture and Tourism Industry Research Institute of Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute, the industry authorities should expand more caravan camps in number and optimize the caravan travel experience through ratings and other means.
Wu Liyun: "On the one hand, the standards of the camp should be more perfect, in addition to refueling, charging, replenishment of goods, waste discharge, leisure and entertainment activities, these are the activities that the campground should have." After having a standard, you can actually set a level, just like our hotel service, and use this level to promote the healthier development of the entire industry. ”
Cozy motorhome site/sourced from the internet
Wu Liyun also suggested that relevant practitioners can also cooperate with online travel platforms and plan special routes to create more new formats of "caravan +".
Wu Liyun: "RV can superimpose many new formats, for example, for some homestay concentrations, you can use the form of RV to reflect its characteristics." In the future, there may also be some enterprises that specialize in RV travel services, or online travel platforms may open up a business to design RVs travel routes and design corresponding service content for tourists. In addition, it can also gather some information on RV route leasing, RV travel experiences and travelogues, which will also form some new content. ”
The launch of the C6 driver's license has allowed more people to plan to drive a trailer-mounted motorhome on the road, but it is necessary to remind you that you must comply with various traffic safety laws and local policy requirements during the journey, and travel in a civilized, safe and green manner.
Reporter | Chen Changsong
Edited | Qi Tian
Editor-in-chief | Cheng Yan