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How to keep heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and public service vehicles (PSVs) safe to drive, including daily checks, inspections, maintenance and record keeping.
1. Introduction There are 5 sub-sections in this section of the guide:…
How to make sure goods and other items are loaded, secured and unloaded safely from HGVs, trailers, vans and cars.
What UK goods vehicle operators need to do to carry out international road haulage.
Guidance for haulage companies and commercial drivers moving accompanied (self-drive) RoRo freight and unaccompanied RoRo freight between Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and the European Union.
Information about how to pay the HGV levy for non-UK HGVs.
How road transport companies and their drivers must secure their vehicles to stop people using them to enter the UK illegally, and to avoid being fined.
Use this checklist to help secure your vehicle to stop people using it to enter the UK illegally.
What transport companies and couriers need to do to use vans and car and trailers over 2.5 tonnes to transport goods in Europe.
How to create a Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) email alerts account and update your subscription preferences.
You must register commercial trailers over 750kg gross weight and all trailers over 3,500kg gross weight before towing them through some European countries.
Check which documents you need to carry if you're the driver or a passenger in a lorry or other heavy goods vehicle (HGV) that crosses international borders.
Find out which licences and permits you need to operate vehicles with a gross vehicle weight above 3.5 tonnes on international journeys from the UK.
Heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and trailer documents you need to legally cross international borders in a UK-registered vehicle.
Get a UK Licence for the Community to transport goods by road to or through the EU, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, and the rules you have to follow.
Safety advice for vehicles carrying overhanging loads.
Sets out the requirements for satisfying good repute or fitness.
Advice for organisations and people using road transport operators based abroad to transport goods into, out of and within the UK.
Guidance to drivers on changes in the law which allow category B licence holders to drive alternatively fuelled vehicles (AFVs) up to 4.25 tonnes.
Find out about the help you can get to run your business safely and efficiently if you've been a vehicle operator for less than 6 months.
Find out what to do when you transport goods under a transit movement into or through the UK from common transit countries.
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