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Guidance for managers of driving examiners who carry out ADI qualifying tests and checks.
Manage your official register of driving instructor training (ORDIT) details if you train instructors, and renew your certificate (badge) every 4 years.
Pre-course trainee checks, the compulsory basic training (CBT) syllabus, trainee to instructor ratios, automatic machines and dealing with complaints.
Rules for riders, how instructors qualify, and instructor to trainee ratios.
Update on annual fee renewal, annex 1C tachograph centres and amended DVSA notices.
A manual for potential tachograph repairers containing the rules you must comply with to become approved repairers.
How to avoid the top 10 reasons lorries and heavy goods vehicles don't pass the Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) inspection.
Guidance on using vehicle side guards to reduce the likelihood of injury to pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
A brief guide to the definition, construction requirements and regulations that apply to works trucks.
What you need to know to teach people how to drive a car and trailer (category BE) including eligibility, skills and how to get accredited.
Tell the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) that you cannot book a heavy goods vehicle (HGV), bus or trailer MOT (annual test) before your MOT expires.
The different types of instructor authorisation, what it means to be a fit and proper person, Disclosure and Barring Service checks, instructor certificates and monitoring your instructors.
Legal requirements, motorcycles with sidecars, motor-tricycles, speedometers, using dipped headlights during training, and trade plates.
You must remove all dangerous attachments such as spikes or cutting blades, when driving agricultural vehicles on public roads.
Rules about displaying the authorised testing facility (ATF) logo at sites which host annual vehicle tests for lorries, buses, coaches and trailers.
The length that a motor vehicle can extend past the rear axle and details of vehicles which are exempt from this rule.
A guide about the safe operation of stretch limousines and other novelty vehicles.
Understanding DVSA’s Vehicle Market Surveillance Unit aims and how it can fine or take you court for making or selling unsafe vehicles or parts.
An example of the route diagrams that driving examiners can use to help you understand where you’re going when following verbal directions.
How to avoid the top 10 reasons heavy trailers don't pass the Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) inspection.
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