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From Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)
  • What you must be able to do and what you must know and understand to provide training to drivers and riders.

  • The guidance driving examiners follow when they carry out driving tests in Great Britain. It's sometimes known as the 'DT1'.

  • How to appeal against a decision to refuse to pass a test, and how to complain against the decision to pass a test.

  • Entrance and exit doors, emergency exits, passenger grab handles, steps and stair rules and inspection for bus and coach MOT tests.

  • Find out if you need the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) qualification to drive a lorry, bus or coach, or if you could be exempt.

  • Guidance for driving examiners on the wording to use in all categories of driving tests.

  • A flowchart of the different ways you can get a full motorcycle licence, including the training and tests you need to take.

  • The rules about the tachograph that must be used by drivers to record assimilated or AETR drivers' hours.

  • The skills, knowledge and understanding you need to be a safe and responsible driver of a car or van (category B vehicle).

  • The working time rules that apply to you depend on whether you drive a vehicle in scope of the assimilated or GB domestic drivers’ hours rules.

  • Report a bus or coach service or driver to DVSA for breaking safety or accessibility rules.

  • List of items that MOT testers must check during a motorcycle MOT test.

  • Guidance on the required internal features for motor caravans.

  • Who can issue prohibition notices, how a prohibition notice can be lifted, how to test vehicles with prohibition notices.

  • You must register all trailers over 750kg to drive to or through most countries in Europe.

  • Ways to load items on a goods vehicle safely.

  • The 'show me, tell me' vehicle safety questions that can be asked in category C (lorry) and D (bus and coach) driving tests.

  • How to keep heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and public service vehicles (PSVs) safe to drive, including daily checks, inspections, maintenance and record keeping.

  • 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.

  • What MOT testers need to know about how to test certain makes and models of vehicles (previously called vehicle specific information).