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Apply for permits to travel to or through Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Norway, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Steps to help reduce the threat of goods vehicles being used as a weapon.
Find contact details for approved auditors to carry out system and process audits on your vehicle operator business so you can join DVSA earned recognition.
Apply to become an authorised audit provider for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) earned recognition scheme, and how to carry out audits.
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.
How specialist removals companies can apply for an international removal permit for European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) member countries.
Guidance for licensing authorities about how to assess applications to licence motorcycles as private hire vehicles.
Responsibilities of road haulage and road passenger transport managers, and the skills and knowledge they need.
Outlines the responsibilities of licensing authorities to share safeguarding and road safety concerns about taxi and private hire vehicle drivers with each other.
This guidance note sets out the view of the Department for Transport of what is, and what is not, a private hire vehicle.
Find driver and vehicle software and IT systems that can report on performance measures for the DVSA earned recognition scheme for vehicle operators.
Who can use the Driver and Vehicle Standards (DVSA) earned recognition logo, where it can be used, and how it must look.
What UK bus and coach operators need to do to provide services, tours, holidays and trips into Europe and other countries.
How operators can improve or maintain security to reduce violence on buses and coaches, or at stations and depots.
A guide about the safe operation of stretch limousines and other novelty vehicles.
This document sets out how the traffic commissioners will handle complaints.
How to apply to become a validated IT supplier for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) earned recognition scheme.
A guide to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) earned recognition scheme.
Guidelines to traffic commissioners, the limousine industry and the public on the operation of minibuses, limousines and similar vehicles.
Laws on how local authorities, and taxi and private hire vehicle operators must accommodate people in wheelchairs and guide dogs in line with the Equality Act.
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