We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
This syllabus sets out an approach to training drivers in the skills, knowledge and understanding required to be a safe and responsible driver of a category B vehicle.
How approved driving instructors should behave in their personal conduct and business dealings, including advertising their services and settling disputes.
How the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) earned recognition scheme works, how to apply, and what happens when you've joined.
Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) if you’re making or importing a single trailer, or a very small number of trailers.
The role of the Driving and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), how to make a complaint about DVSA.
What you must be able to do and understand when to prepare yourself, the vehicle and its passengers for a journey.
The testing procedures and standards that examiners follow when they carry out Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MVSA) inspections.
Train people to become driving instructors by joining the official register of driving instructor training (ORDIT) - including the assessments you have to pass.
Fees and test lengths for car, motorcycle, lorry, trailer, bus and coach approval tests.
What the vehicle defect rectification scheme is, when police may issue a vehicle defect rectification form, the role of the VTS in the VDRS scheme, what fees the VTS can set for VDRS.
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.
How vans and light goods vehicles are inspected when they're being approved under the Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) scheme to make sure they're safe to be used.
What UK bus and coach operators need to do to provide services, tours, holidays and trips into the EU and other countries.
Overview of which drivers' hours and tachograph rules apply in different situations for vehicles used for the carriage of goods.
How to set up a training centre and get approval to provide Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) periodic training courses.
Information on acceptable qualifications to become a tester
How lorries are inspected when they're being approved under the Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) scheme to make sure they're safe to be used.
How to run and manage a Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) periodic training course.
Download an example of a weekly record sheet.
What you must be able to do and understand to guide and control the vehicle.
Do not include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).