Transport and driving businesses

Goods vehicle operators

• Being a goods vehicle operator
• International authorisations and permits for road haulage
• Permission to supply a large goods trailer for use on the road
• Find a weighbridge
• Cabotage
• Pay the heavy goods vehicle (HGV) levy
• Register with ESDAL
• ESDAL abnormal load notification
• Transporting abnormal loads
• Transporting goods

Bus and public service vehicle operators

• PSV (Public Service Vehicle) operator licences
• Run a local bus service
• Bus registration search
• DVSA local authority inbox system

Licences for buses and lorries

• Vehicle operator licensing self service: manage your licence
• Vehicle operator licensing: partner self-service system
• Check vehicle operator licensing applications
• Traffic commissioner public inquiries
• Lorry and bus operator search
• Trade licence plates

Managing your vehicles

• Book an annual test at an Authorised Testing Facility (ATF)
• Detailed guides: Lorry, bus and trailer annual test
• Operator Compliance Risk Score (OCRS)
• Manage your commercial vehicle compliance
• Access DVSA online report services
• Get information about your DVLA Fleet Scheme vehicles
• Find your local approved speed limiter centre
• Report red diesel used on public roads

Drivers' hours and tachographs

• Drivers' hours
• Tachographs: rules for drivers and operators
• Apply for a digital tachograph company smart card
• Apply for a digital tachograph driver smart card
• Find your local Approved Tachograph Centre (ATC)
• Setting up an Approved Tachograph Centre (ATC)
• Tell DVLA you’ve changed address
• Order DVLA forms

Taxis

• DVSA taxi driving test
• Private hire vehicle operator licence outside London
• Vehicle licences for taxis or private hire vehicles
• Driving licences for taxis and private hire vehicles
• Report unlicensed taxi or minicab drivers

Employing and testing drivers

• Employing people to drive
• Check someone's driving licence information
• Provide driving tests for your employees
• Record delegated driving test details

Providing MOTs and vehicle tests

• Become an MOT tester
• Find an MOT tester or manager course
• Set up an MOT test station
• Record MOT test results
• Being an MOT tester
• Detailed guides: Run an MOT test station
• Detailed guides: MOT testing service for test stations
• MOT forms
• MOT manuals and notices
• Set up an Authorised Testing Facility (ATF)

Speed limiters

• Becoming a speed limiter centre
• Find your local approved speed limiter centre

Buying, selling and importing vehicles

• Tell DVLA you've sold, transferred or bought a vehicle
• Importing vehicles into the UK
• Vehicle approval
• Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA)

Vehicle tests and tax

• Apply to tax a Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV)
• The annual test (MOT) for lorries, buses and trailers
• Book an annual test at an Authorised Testing Facility (ATF)
• Book a single annual test at a DVSA test station
• Book tests for multiple vehicles at a DVSA test station
• Specialist tests for lorries
• Specialist tests for coaches and buses

Detailed guidance

• Detailed guides: Traffic and road management
• Planning and infrastructure
• Regulations, safety and security
• Transport and the environment
• Transporting goods

Driving and transport

• Learning to drive and ride

  Provisional licences, driving lessons, booking and managing your tests and when you've passed

• Driving licences

  Includes applying, changing your address, fees and tracking your application

• Vehicle tax, MOT and insurance

  Taxing your vehicle or registering it as off the road, getting an MOT and vehicle insurance

• Buy, sell or scrap a vehicle

• Number plates, vehicle registration and log books

  Includes changing your address and personalised number plates

• Driving with medical conditions, Blue Badges and public transport if you're disabled

• Driving in the UK and abroad

  Check your eligibility to drive in the UK and abroad, and importing vehicles.

• Penalty points, fines and driving bans

• The Highway Code, road safety and vehicle rules

  Rules for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, traffic signs, road safety and boat safety

• Teaching people to drive

  Becoming an instructor, taking the qualifying tests, managing your registration and rules

• Lorry, bus and coach drivers

  Becoming a lorry, bus or coach driver, Driver CPC, roadside checks, carrying loads and vehicle tests

• Transport and driving businesses

  Operator licences for goods and public service vehicles, employing drivers, taxi licences and running MOT stations

• Manufacture or adapt a vehicle

• Parking, public transport and the environment

• Driving and enforcing the law

• Vehicle and driver data and information

• Vehicle tax and SORN

  Taxing your vehicle, costs, Direct Debit and SORN

• Vehicle and boat safety

  Includes disqualification, penalty points, vehicle recalls and registering boats

• MOT and vehicle insurance

  Includes getting an MOT, MOT fees and vehicle insurance

• Blue Badge, parking, local travel and the environment

  Information about parking permits, fines and wheel clamping

All categories

• Benefits
• Births, deaths, marriages and care
• Business and self-employed
• Childcare and parenting
• Citizenship and living in the UK
• Crime, justice and the law
• Disabled people
• Driving and transport
• Education and learning
• Employing people
• Environment and countryside
• Housing and local services
• Money and tax
• Passports, travel and living abroad
• Visas and immigration
• Working, jobs and pensions