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  • Action Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) traffic examiners take to deal with offences, including warnings, prohibition notices, and fixed penalties.

  • Buy multiple licences for Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) driving theory e-learning for all of the learner drivers you teach or drivers you employ.

  • How to create a Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) email alerts account and update your subscription preferences.

  • Route and area check tools to assess the quality of active travel designs for active travel interventions and schemes.

  • How drivers, transport staff and bridge owners can prevent vehicles from hitting bridges and what to do if a bridge strike happens.

  • Checks you should carry out every time you tow a trailer, caravan or horsebox with a car, to make sure you're towing safely and legally.

  • Guide to reported road casualty statistics including notes and definitions, quality and methodology information and supporting technical documents.

  • How the Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) scheme works if you’re making or importing a single vehicle or a very small number of vehicles.

  • Guidance on driving licences.

  • Guidance for haulage companies and commercial drivers moving accompanied (self-drive) RoRo freight and unaccompanied RoRo freight between Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and the European Union.

  • 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.

  • Fees and test lengths for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and trailer MOTs, prohibition clearances, dangerous goods (ADR) tests, TIR tests and low emission tests.

  • Train people to become driving instructors by joining the official register of driving instructor training (ORDIT) - including the assessments you have to pass.

  • 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.

  • A summary of working time regulations for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and public service vehicle (PSV) drivers and crew ('mobile workers').

  • How to check if a vehicle presented for test is affected by the Citroën C3, C4, DS3, DS4 and DS5 stop drive recall, and what to do if the vehicle is affected.

  • How approved driving instructors should behave in their personal conduct and business dealings, including advertising their services and settling disputes.

  • Technical eligibility criteria and application guidance for the zero emission van and truck grant scheme for manufacturers.

  • How road transport companies and their drivers must secure their vehicles to stop people using them to enter the UK illegally, and to avoid being fined.

  • Details of how to oppose heavy goods vehicle licence applications or the use of an operating centre.