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Professional driving of lorries, buses and coaches

Driver CPC training, information about tachographs and EU and international driving rules.

Services

  1. Order DVLA forms

    Order application packs and forms from DVLA

  2. Check your Driver CPC periodic training hours

    Check how many hours of Driver CPC periodic training you’ve done and which courses you’ve attended

  3. Apply for a digital tachograph driver smart card

    Contact DVLA to get a digital tachograph driver smart card - change, replace, renew a card

  4. Become a qualified lorry or bus driver

    How to become a qualified lorry or bus driver and get the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) to drive heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) or passenger carrying vehicles (PCVs)

  5. Apply for a digital tachograph driver card (D777B/DL)

    Application for a digital tachograph driver card for GB photocard driving licences.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Keeping commercial vehicles safe to drive (roadworthy)
    • Guidance
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
  2. Drivers’ hours and tachographs: goods vehicles
    • Manual
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
  3. Prepare to drive in the EU after Brexit
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Transport, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain, and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
  4. International road haulage: operator licences and permits
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Transport, Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain, and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
  5. Check if you need Driver CPC to drive a lorry, bus or coach
    • Detailed guide
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
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News and communications

Press release

Senior Traffic Commissioner reminds transport managers and operators that they need to keep up to date

Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain

  1. Kulvinder Singh Hothi
    • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
    • Decision
  2. Checks for lorry emission cheats start across Great Britain
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • News story
  3. Consultation on revised guidance for goods and passenger transport industries
    • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
    • Press release
  4. Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Bill: updated analysis of amendments made for the purposes of English Votes for English Laws
    • Department for Transport
    • Written statement
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Research and statistics

  1. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency – Research at DVLA
    • Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
    • Research
  2. Driver CPC qualification and training data
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • Statistical data set
  3. Longer semi-trailer trial evaluation: annual report 2016
    • Department for Transport
    • Research
  4. Truck platooning: UK road trial feasibility study
    • Department for Transport and Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
    • Research
  5. Tachograph and speed limiter centre data for Great Britain
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • Statistical data set
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Improving rules for Approved Tachograph Centres (ATCs)
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 09 November 2016
  2. Tachographs: implementation of EU regulation 165/2014
    • Department for Transport
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 12 May 2015
  3. Road fleet compliance measure for DVSA
    • Department for Transport and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • Closed consultation
    • Date closed 06 February 2015
  4. HGV Levy draft legislation: tax information and impact note
    • Department for Transport
    • Policy paper
  5. Simplifying EU drivers’ hours and working time rules
    • Department for Transport
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Driver CPC compliance training deadline information
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Foi release
  2. Total government revenue generated as a result of Driver CPC and the amount spent advertising it
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Foi release
  3. Number of audits by DSA and JAUPT about Driver CPC periodic training
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Foi release
  4. VOSA response to driver qualification card questions (F0005335)
    • Closed organisation: Vehicle and Operator Services Agency
    • Foi release
  5. Driver CPC: course uploads and bus drivers still to finish periodic training
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Foi release
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