Driving and transport businesses

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• Access DVSA online report services
• Apply for a digital tachograph company smart card
• Apply for a digital tachograph driver smart card
• Become a DVSA assessed CBT motorcycle instructor
• Become an MOT tester
• Becoming a speed limiter centre
• Being a goods vehicle operator
• Book an annual test at an Authorised Testing Facility (ATF)
• Bus registration search
• Check vehicle operator licensing applications
• DVSA local authority inbox system
• DVSA practical test business service
• DVSA taxi driving test
• Driver CPC: starting up an approved training centre
• Driving licences for private hire or taxis outside London
• Employing people to drive
• Find a weighbridge
• Find your local Approved Tachograph Centre (ATC)
• Find your local approved speed limiter centre
• International authorisations and permits for road haulage
• Lorry and bus operator search
• Manage your commercial vehicle compliance
• Operator Compliance Risk Score (OCRS)
• Order compulsory basic training (CBT) certificates
• Order forms online from DVLA
• PSV (Public Service Vehicle) operator licences
• Permission to supply a large goods trailer for use on the road
• Private hire vehicle operator licence outside London
• Provide driving tests for your employees
• Record delegated driving test details
• Register to book driving tests as a trainer or business
• Register to book driving tests for your pupils
• Report red diesel used on public roads
• Run a local bus service
• Set up an Authorised Testing Facility (ATF)
• Set up an MOT test station
• Set up and run a motorcycle approved training body (ATB)
• Setting up an Approved Tachograph Centre (ATC)
• Supervise small lorry and minibus learner drivers
• Traffic commissioner public inquiries
• Vehicle approval
• Vehicle licences for private hire or taxis in London
• Vehicle licences for private hire or taxis outside London
• Vehicle operator licensing self service: manage your licence
• Vehicle operator licensing: partner self-service system

Detailed guidance

• Environmental management for transport
• Traffic and road management
• Transport planning and infrastructure
• Transport regulations and safety
• Transport research and development
• Transporting dangerous goods

Driving and transport

• Blue Badge, parking, local travel and the environment

  Information about parking permits, fines and wheel clamping

• Drivers of lorries, buses and goods vehicles

  Includes tests, health and safety, roadside checks and carrying loads

• Driving and transport businesses

  Includes setting up test stations, employing drivers and becoming a vehicle operator

• Driving licences

  Includes getting a driving licence, changing your address, fees and tracking your application

• Driving tests, motorcycle tests and learning to drive

  Booking, changing and cancelling practical and theory tests, fees and compulsory basic training

• Driving with a disability or a health condition

  Information about medical conditions that affect your ability to drive

• MOT and vehicle insurance

  Includes getting an MOT, MOT fees and vehicle insurance

• Number plates and vehicle registration

  Includes selling your vehicle, changing your address, personalised registration numbers and registering your vehicle

• Teaching people to drive

  Becoming an instructor, applying for licences, booking tests and rules

• The Highway Code

  Includes road signs and rules for motorists and cyclists

• Vehicle and boat safety

  Includes disqualification, penalty points, vehicle recalls and registering boats

• Vehicle tax and SORN

  Buying and renewing car tax, vehicle tax bands and SORN

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