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Motorcycle Drivers' Responsibilities

Authorised motorcycle drivers must comply with all relevant requirements of the Passenger Transport Regulation 2007. Some of these requirements are:

Motorcycle drivers must not:

  • Tout or solicit for passengers or for a hiring
  • Eat or drink on the motorcycle when hired or available for hire
  • Carry any person on a motorcycle whom you have reason to believe is not a tourist
  • Carry any person on a motor bicycle (LC vehicle) except on a sealed road
  • Falsely advertise that they are authorised motorcycle drivers

Motorcycle drivers must:

  • Ensure their motorcycle 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 a pillion passenger wears proper shoes and clothing, is instructed on how to wear a helmet and use footrests and how to communicate with you whilst on the tour
  • Ensure that the headlight is on throughout the tour
  • 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 of your responsibilities can be found in the driver authorisation package on this website.