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Outlines the responsibilities of licensing authorities to share safeguarding and road safety concerns about taxi and private hire vehicle drivers with each other.
Find out about the help you can get to run your business safely and efficiently if you've been a vehicle operator for less than 6 months.
Find driver and vehicle software and IT systems that can report on performance measures for the DVSA earned recognition scheme for vehicle operators.
Apply to become an authorised audit provider for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) earned recognition scheme, and how to carry out audits.
A guide for operator's licence holders on what an acceptable compliance audit should cover.
What UK bus and coach operators need to do to provide services, tours, holidays and trips into the EU and other countries.
List of traffic areas, local newspaper advert template and convictions and cautions you will need to declare when applying for a vehicle operator licence.
How to apply to become a validated IT supplier for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) earned recognition scheme.
Apply for permits to travel to or through Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Norway, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Who can use the Driver and Vehicle Standards (DVSA) earned recognition logo, where it can be used, and how it must look.
A guide to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) earned recognition scheme.
Translations of the service to pay a DVSA fine for vehicle defects, breaking the rules around drivers’ hours, and other offences.
Guidelines to traffic commissioners, the limousine industry and the public on the operation of minibuses, limousines and similar vehicles.
Check the details of a vehicle operator licence if you work for the police, a government department or local council.
How operators can improve or maintain security to reduce violence on buses and coaches, or at stations and depots.
This guidance note sets out the view of the Department for Transport of what is, and what is not, a private hire vehicle.
This document sets out how the traffic commissioners will handle complaints.
Laws on how local authorities, and taxi and private hire vehicle operators must accommodate people in wheelchairs and guide dogs in line with the Equality Act.
How specialist removals companies can apply for an international removal permit for European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) member countries.
Guidance for licensing authorities about how to assess applications to licence motorcycles as private hire vehicles.
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