Getting my license in Taiwan

My license lapsed (expired) in Canada so I need to get a Taiwanese license. Really need it now that we live out in Taoyuan. I went to the DMV and they gave me a link to try these online tests. The problem is, I would really like to get a guidebook in English on the rules of the road. I also noticed there are quite a few questions they ask that are completely irrelevant to me - how would I know how many months your license is held back for if you’re a lorry driver? Can anyone help me and point me to a proper link or place to get my driver’s handbook, so that I can read up and then go and take my written test and subsequently the driving test? I have a joining family ARC so there’s no problems there. Thanks. I’m pretty sure this was discussed already. Please do a forum search before posting about this.

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Moderator - I think you are mistaken, I just did the search and there is only one reference of picking one of these up in Shulin but no reference on anything online. Is it too much to find out where else this information may be? Chickunit.

[quote=“ChickUnit”]Thanks. I’m pretty sure this was discussed already. Please do a forum search before posting about this.

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Moderator - I think you are mistaken, I just did the search and there is only one reference of picking one of these up in Shulin but no reference on anything online. Is it too much to find out where else this information may be? Chickunit.[/quote]Did I miss something here? Was this removed from another thread? It’s the first time I’ve seen your post, anyway. But as someone else seems to have commented to you (where? who? – it helps if you use the quote function) there is indeed online information in English concerning driving test questions and hence indirectly the driving laws. Look at the bottom of this page and the top of the next one:
forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopi … &&start=70

As for a drivers’ handbook, the only thing I’m aware of is the printed (English language) test preparation booklet, which I’ve posted about many times before. But by the sound of it, that may not be quite what you’re looking for. I don’t know of anything that corresponds directly to driving rulebooks like, for example, the UK Highway Code.

Thanks - those pdf’s are all I need. I guess I’ll have to go to Taipei to take the tests.

Oh, they ask a lot of irrelevant questions … well, question that would never be asked in a western country anyways … so, good luck …

Here is the official link you get when you show up at Taoyuan motorvehicle office: http://www.tmvso.gov.tw/english/download.html

Just came back from my first try and made glorious 82.5%, which means I am alowed to go next weeke again. Had some luck with the questions and a nice experience with the computer test (the written text was different from the one on the headphone, I chose the written one and was wrong… :unamused: ), also was wrong with some of the “which fine do I get when doing that and that” questions, the rest was not to hard, guess with a bit luck would have made it.

You can to the whole test in Taoyuan. I will go there again on next Wednesday. It is possible to do the written and the driving test (in case you pass the written one) on one day but you need to be there before 8 am.
Otherwise you can first do the written test, they have it at 9am, 10:30 am and 2pm.

Let me know if you need directions or anything else.

Good luck.