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
You will find further details of your responsibilities if you look at the relevant driver authorisation package on the Ministry of Transport's web site www.transport.nsw.gov.au.
