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How to keep heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and public service vehicles (PSVs) safe to drive, including daily checks, inspections, maintenance and record keeping.
What UK bus and coach operators need to do to provide services, tours, holidays and trips into the EU and other countries.
Information about how to pay the HGV levy for non-UK HGVs.
An overview of the process for registering and operating local bus services in England and Wales
How to design a Driver CPC course so that it so it counts as training for the TfL Contractual Requirements module of the DVSA earned recognition scheme.
How to make sure goods and other items are loaded, secured and unloaded safely from HGVs, trailers, vans and cars.
Includes updates on new tachograph centre application criteria, tachograph calibration, rules for replacing faulty tachograph units and payment notices.
A response to the problem of bridge strikes across Great Britain.
Use this checklist to help secure your vehicle to stop people using it to enter the UK illegally.
What UK goods vehicle operators need to do to carry out international road haulage.
Get a UK Licence for the Community to transport goods by road to or through the EU, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, and the rules you have to follow.
Heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and trailer documents you need to legally cross international borders in a UK-registered vehicle.
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.
Apply to drive an HGV, bus or coach professionally for up to 12 months before taking all the qualifying tests if you’re doing certain training courses.
Guidance for haulage companies and commercial drivers moving accompanied (self-drive) RoRo freight and unaccompanied RoRo freight between Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and the European Union.
Includes updates on nominated technician training certificates, Stoneridge SE5000 Smart V2 tachographs, removal of workshop cards and newly approved equipment.
Update on annual fee renewal, annex 1C tachograph centres and amended DVSA notices.
Update on replacement rules for smart tachographs, approved 1C seals and quality control checks.
Translations of the service to pay a DVSA fine for vehicle defects, breaking the rules around drivers’ hours, and other offences.
Helping current or potential new operators safely use longer-semi trailers.
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