Regulations for Limousine Hire Business in London and United Kingdom

The role of the Public Carriage Office (PCO) includes the licensing of taxi and private limousine hire services in London.

Limousine hire operator's outside of the city such as, Middlesex, Berkshire, Hampshire, Essex, Kent and Buckinghamshire needs to be register by their local county council. The legal requirement to operate stretch limousines states that you should not hire a limousine to clients offering to take more than 8 passenger. You should not carry over 8 passenger in a limousine, speak to VOSA, they provides a range of licensing, testing and enforcement services with the aim of improving the roadworthiness standards of vehicles ensuring the compliance of operators and drivers, and supporting the independent Traffic Commissioners. .

A Certificate of Initial Fitness (COIF) has recently been awarded to a large stretch limousine for the first time. This means that PSV operators can now legally run limos carrying more than eight passengers. The examiner officer tells us more. Stretch limousines accepted for COIF According to this regulation, a bus is required to manoeuvre in the area between two concentric circles of 5.3 metre and 12.5 metre diameters, so that no part of it projects outside that area. To achieve this, extensive modifications had to be made to the steerage components so that the steering lock was effectively increased but no part of the front wheels or steering cohesion came into contact with surrounding parts of the vehicle. At the same, the steering geometry still had to let the front wheels to turn at the correct angle in relation to each other so that there was no excessive tyre scrub and control of the limousine was not affected.