If you passed your car driving test after 1st January 1997, you no longer have an entitlement on your licence to drive a minibus. A minibus is a small bus comprising 9-16 passenger seats + a drivers seat. The new people carrier type vehicles with up to 8 passenger seats can be driven on a car licence. However, there are council policy issues regarding who can and cannot drive them.

For those that passed their car driving test before the 1st January 1997, they will have an entitlement on their licence unless medical grounds dictate otherwise to drive minibus.

However, it has been council policy since 1996 that all drivers wishing to drive a council insured minibus/people carrier, or drive a minibus/people carrier on council business, that includes school teachers ferrying children or students around, they must undergo the council's one-day minibus/people carrier driver course.

Furthermore to meet legislation regarding insurance issues all drivers who possess a council permit to drive minibuses/people carriers must obtain a Council Vehicle Drivers Permit (CVDA).

For further information regarding minibus driver training, please contact the Road Safety Team on 823799, and for CVDA information contact the The Shared Service Centre on 823451.


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Page last updated on: 08/02/2006