4WD drivers' responsibilities

Authorised 4WD tourist vehicle drivers must comply with all relevant requirements of the Passenger Transport Regulation 2007. Some of these requirements are:

4WD drivers must not:

• Tout or solicit for passengers or for a hiring
• Smoke in 4WD vehicle at any time
• Eat or drink in the vehicle when hired or available for hire
• Move the 4WD vehicle while any door is open
• Carry any person in a 4WD vehicle whom you have reason to believe is not a tourist
• Carry tourists on a tour wholly on sealed roads
• Falsely advertise that they are authorised 4WD drivers

4WD drivers must:

• Ensure their 4WD vehicle is clean and tidy
• Be clean and tidy, and be properly attired and wear enclosed shoes
• Behave with civility and propriety towards intending passengers, passengers, other tourist vehicle drivers and authorised officers
• Ensure that each tour offered involves carrying passengers partly off road
• Allow assistance animals or animals in training in the 4WD vehicle
• Give lost property to its owner, your operator or a police station
• Hand over driver licence and driver authority card to authorised officer when requested to do so.

Further details about driver responsibilities can be found in the driver authorisation package.