The driver card is personal, valid five years, and driving in-scope without it is not an option: £32 first card, £19 renewal, immediate reporting of loss. What drivers and operators must manage.
Fixed penalties, prohibitions and court action for drivers' hours and tachograph offences: what happens when DVSA stops one of your vehicles.
The same misunderstandings about drivers' hours turn up in infringement reports year after year. The rules behind the seven most persistent myths.
When weather, breakdowns or accidents make the rules impossible mid-journey, drivers may depart from them to reach a suitable stopping place - and in exceptional cases drive up to 2 hours more to reach base. The exact scope of the emergency provisions.
The rules on driving bans: how long they last, the 56-day licence rule, retests, and the mutual recognition of disqualifications across GB, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man.
The number plate test, Snellen standards, and the stricter vision rules for lorry and bus drivers - plus the duty to tell DVLA about eyesight problems.
Health and safety law applies to work driving exactly as it does on a fixed site - including grey fleet vehicles owned by workers themselves. HSE's journey, driver, vehicle framework for managing it.
No valid MOT means no driving or parking on the road - prosecuted on sight - with only two exceptions: driving to a repair, or to a pre-arranged test. The expiry rules and the month-minus-a-day renewal trick.
Illegal drugs, prescription medicines and the road traffic offence that catches drivers who feel fine. The limits, the police powers and the career-ending penalties.
Keep left, overtake right, return when safe; use crawler lanes when slow; never in cycle, bus or restricted lanes unless signed. Highway Code rules 137-142 for professional drivers.
The earned recognition scheme lets compliant operators prove it: 4-weekly KPI reporting, audit standards, fewer roadside stops and an accreditation customers can check.
Police and DVSA can stop and inspect commercial vehicles anywhere: immediate and delayed prohibitions, S-marked maintenance flags, immobilisation and fines. What drivers and operators should expect.