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
• Apply for a vehicle test or certificate for a lorry or trailer
• Transporting goods
• Vehicle operator licences

Bus and public service vehicle operators

• PSV (Public Service Vehicle) operator licences
• Limousine licensing
• Run a local bus service
• Find registered local bus services
• Vehicle operator licences
• Apply for a vehicle test or certificate for a coach or bus

Licences for buses and lorries

• Apply for a vehicle operator licence
• Manage your vehicle operator licence
• Check vehicle operator licence applications
• Traffic commissioner public inquiries
• Find lorry or bus operators
• Trade licence plates

Managing your vehicles

• Book a lorry, bus or trailer annual test (MOT)
• Lorry, bus and trailer annual tests
• 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

• Driving licences for taxis and private hire vehicles
• Vehicle licences for taxis or private hire vehicles
• Private hire vehicle operator licence outside London
• Operator licences for running a private hire or taxi business in London
• Limousine licensing
• 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
• Running an MOT test station
• MOT testing service for vehicle test stations
• MOT forms
• MOT manuals and special notices

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)
• Annual test (MOT) for lorries, buses and trailers
• 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

• Planning and infrastructure
• Regulations, safety and security
• Traffic and road management
• Transport and the environment
• Transporting goods
• Vehicle operator licences

Driving and transport

• Driving licences

• Vehicle tax, MOT and insurance

• Driving tests and learning to drive or ride

• Number plates, vehicle registration and log books

• Buy, sell or scrap a vehicle

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

• The Highway Code, road safety and vehicle rules

• Vehicle and driver data and information

• Penalty points, fines and driving bans

• Driving in the UK and abroad

• Lorry, bus and coach drivers

• Teaching people to drive

• Driving and enforcing the law

• Parking, public transport and the environment

• Manufacture or adapt a vehicle

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