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Simplified rules for drivers of large goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles, including how long you can drive and work, and the breaks you should take.
Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) if you’re making or importing a single trailer, or a very small number of trailers.
Fees and test lengths for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and trailer MOTs, prohibition clearances, dangerous goods (ADR) tests, TIR tests and low emission tests.
Road safety factsheets relating to specific road user groups and any one-off or ad-hoc statistics
How trailers are inspected when they're being approved under the Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) scheme to make sure they're safe to be used.
Changes to the MOT inspection manual and testing guide from 29 November 2024, and a clarification about special notice 03-24.
How the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) earned recognition scheme works, how to apply, and what happens when you've joined.
Apply for Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MSVA) if your motorcycle, 3-wheeled or light 4-wheeled vehicle has not been type-approved to European standards.
Find out if your heavy goods vehicle (HGV) or trailer needs a ministry plate and plating certificate, how to get them and what to do if you lose or damage them.
How DVLA decides whether drivers are medically fit to drive.
The MOT testing guide is being updated on 1 April 2025 to include changes to the disciplinary points system for MOT testers.
What you must be able to do and what you must know and understand to be a safe and responsible moped or motorcycle rider.
Sets out vocational driver conduct matters to be referred to traffic commissioners by the Secretary of State for Transport (through DVLA).
How to run and manage a Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) periodic training course.
The areas that are looked at during maintenance investigations to check that vehicle operators have suitable systems, facilities and arrangements.
You must report any incident involving your organisation's public service vehicles (PSVs) if there are fatalities, serious injuries, or serious damage.
Guidance for medical practitioners when issuing medical exemptions to drivers and passengers from wearing seatbelts.
A reference leaflet about drivers' hours for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers.
Heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and trailer documents you need to legally cross international borders in a UK-registered vehicle.
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.
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