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Check if you can supervise friends or family learning to drive a car, what the rules are, how to prepare the car, and how to plan your practice sessions.
How to use your own staff to provide driving tests for employees of your company, police service or fire and rescue service.
You need to record the number of hours you give lessons and are supervised as a trainee driving instructor if you're not taking extra training.
How bus, coach and HGV drivers should record the hours they spend on 'other work'.
How the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) earned recognition scheme works, how to apply, and what happens when you've joined.
How to apply to appoint your own staff as delegated driving examiners to provide driving tests for your employees of your company, police service or fire and rescue service
What you need to do before you can drive a car or ride a motorcycle - driving licence, registering your vehicle, insurance, vehicle tax, MOT
Who needs to use a tachograph and exemptions; digital and analogue tachographs; guidance for goods vehicles, passenger carrying vehicles (PCVs) and light vehicles
What driving instructors should do to carry out realistic mock driving tests, including what needs to be in the test, assessing faults and recording the result.
You must tell DVLA if you have been fitted with a pacemaker - download the correct form to let them know
We’re the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), holding more than 50 million driver records and more than 40 million vehicle records. We collect over £7 billion a year in Vehicle Excise Duty (VED). DVLA is an executive agency, sponsored...
When to take Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) periodic training if you're a lorry, bus or coach driver, how to find courses, and what happens if you miss your deadline.
Who can teach you to drive, practising with friends and family, driving lessons, insurance, using L and P plates.
Check which documents you need to carry if you're the driver or a passenger in a lorry or other heavy goods vehicle (HGV) that crosses international borders.
Track your driving licence application if you've already made an online application
Train people to become driving instructors by joining the official register of driving instructor training (ORDIT) - including the assessments you have to pass.
You should keep a record of any continuing professional development (CPD) you do if you're an approved driving instructor (ADI).
Check if you need to tell DVLA about a health or medical condition, how to report medical conditions to DVLA
Check how many hours of Driver CPC periodic training you’ve done and which courses you’ve attended.
You could get a fine and penalty points if you're caught speeding, or could even lose your licence
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