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Senior Traffic Commissioner's statutory guidance and statutory directions

Publications explaining the legal basis and the way traffic commissioners will approach the exercise of their statutory functions.

Traffic commissioners licence and regulate:

  • heavy goods vehicle (HGV) operators
  • public service vehicle (PSV) operators
  • large good vehicle (LGV) vocational drivers
  • passenger-carrying vehicle (PCV) vocational drivers

in England, Scotland and Wales.

These documents explain the legal basis and the way traffic commissioners will approach the exercise of their statutory functions.

Statutory Document Summary

A document that summarises the key principles from the Senior Traffic Commissioner’s Statutory Guidance and Directions on the framework for operator licensing in Great Britain is available below. It does not replace the full statutory documents and must be read alongside the detailed Guidance, Directions, Annexes, and Case Examples that follow.

Senior Traffic Commissioner Statutory Document Summaries - GOV.UK

Guidance

Announcements

Updates to this page

Published 14 December 2015
Last updated 21 July 2021 show all updates
  1. Added Traffic Commissioners: appeals against the removal of international road travel permits to collection

  2. Statutory document issued on contingency and emergency planning in light of COVID-19 outbreak.

  3. documents one to 14 updated (excluding 6).

  4. Finance, transport managers, operating centres, stable establishments and addresses for service, delegation of authority and appeals statutory documents updated.

  5. Annual updates to Traffic Commissioners' statutory documents.

  6. First published.