All about PCV Licence



PCV Licence- What it is?

There are lots of doubts about PCV and PSV licence. There is no difference between the PSV licence and the PCV licence aside from the name. In 1982 the PSV licence was technically canceled and later on replaced with the PCV licence.

Presently onto another potentially confusing area which we will discuss here, this is when conditions allow you to have the option to drive a minibus “without” having a PCV licence. On the off chance that you got a car licence before January first, 1997, you can legally drive a minibus for noncommercial purposes. A minibus is classed as a vehicle that doesn't exceed 8 meters long and carries somewhere in the range of nine and sixteen travellers.


PCV (Passenger Carrying Vehicle) was once known as PSV (Passenger Service Vehicle). The Bus PCV Category D licence drivers who pass the PCV Category D Bus licence to drive any kind of transport or mentor including single deckers, twofold decker transports, and bendi transports.

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When you finish the PCV class D test, you will at that point acquire a classification D qualification on your driving licence and will have the option to drive any automatic bus. You will likewise receive Category D1 (Minibus License), as PCV Category D supplants the Category D1 minibus licence. 

If you have a manual Category B licence (car licence), at that point you might be required to step through the examination in an automatic vehicle, however, will be still be granted a manual PCV Category D licence. You can, in any case, decide to take your PCV bus test in a manual vehicle or coach. On the off chance that you select, yet we accept this does it make the test more challenging and difficult for no reason?

Any individual who acquired their car licence "after" first Jan 1997 can likewise drive a minibus on a car licence just if all the conditions are met:

o   The minibuses are being driven in the UK and not abroad
o   Isn't towing a trailer
o   The driver is of at least 21 years of age
o   The driver has a car licence for at least 2 years
o   The driver is working the minibus on a voluntary basis and is just offered spread for out of pocket costs (no payment permitted) as a driver
o   The vehicle weighs no more than 3500kg (greatest approved mass) or 4250kg if the vehicle has extra equipment, for example, a traveller lift to permit the carriage of disabled passengers.
o   The minibus is being utilized for social/non-business purposes/by non-business services.

* Another rule is if a driver is more than 70 years he/she can at present drive legally on a car licence the driver must pass a PCV Medical and show up by the code of either 120 or (NFHR).

Categories of PCV

Category D1: As referred prior in this blog allows you to drive a minibus up to 16 seats, no longer than 8 meters long and trailers are permitted up to 750kg.

Category D1+E: This empowers you to do likewise as a D1 above yet considers heavier trailers to be towed. Significant the trailer must not exceed the vehicle doing the towing and both trailer and vehicle consolidated must not be more than 12 tons.

Category D: The category D licence is for Bus and Coach Drivers who will be working with in excess of 16 passengers and with trailers up to 750kg.

Category D+E: This is the last and most progressed of the Cat D licences you can acquire. It empowers you to drive a bus or coach with more than 16 travellers/passengers and towing a trailer heavier than 750kg. You likewise obviously get the procured rights on the various Category D licence types mentioned above.

Eligibility criteria to obtain PCV licence

Unlike HGV licence, to apply for the PCV licence you have to apply through application and significant thing is to pass through the medical test. You need to get the expert driving capability that is said to be a driver certificate of professional competency after that you are qualified to apply for the PCV licence.

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