Your conduct - LGV and PCV

These pages include extracts from the DVLA's D100 leaflet called "What you need to know about driving licences". You can download the original document by following this link.
This leaflet and these pages gives general information. It is not a statement of law.
Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the information reproduced is correct, Select All cannot not be held responsible for any inaccuracies.

Convictions relating to driving

You must tell us if, within the last four years, you have received any convictions for breaking the rules about:

• drivers’ hours;

• drivers’ records;

• the roadworthiness of the vehicle; or

• overloading vehicles.

Do not tell us about any convictions for these if they were more than four years ago.

Other convictions

Drivers of passenger-carrying vehicles only

If you are applying for a minibus or bus licence, you must tell us about any other convictions you have had, even if they are not to do with driving. Tell us about these unless they are ‘spent’ (have run out under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974).

In all cases of convictions, the Traffic Commissioner for the area you live in will decide whether to grant your entitlement to drive large goods or passenger-carrying vehicles. The Traffic Commissioner will take account of all endorsements on your licence. They will not grant you entitlement if you are disqualified from driving.