NA Commercial Solicitors

Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority Reg No 441100 www.sra.org.uk          

Principal Solicitor Simon Newman

OPERATOR LICENCE APPLICATIONS

An application for a new operators licence may or may not be a straight forward exercise.

There are all sorts of issues to be addressed before you submit your application :  Do you need a restricted or standard licence ?  Do you need to be licensed for international journeys ?  Where will your operating centre be and is it likely to be acceptable ?  How will you prove your financial standing and what arrangements will you introduce in respect of vehicle maintenance, overloading and drivers hours ?

Often operators find that after they've submitted their application they get tangled in the system for month after month.  With letters and phone calls going back and forth with the traffic office staff.  Each day without a licence becomes a costly day of lost business and lost profit.  

You may decide to handle the process yourself.  In which case fine, we wish you luck.   

If on the other hand you want to make sure that all bases are covered in your application to avoid delay OR your application is potentially complex OR your business is so large or important that delay is not an option THEN you should turn to a professional to steer the process on your behalf.