Hire a driver with the right licence for your transport

Start with the vehicle

The most important information when you book a driver is which vehicle is to be driven. That determines which driving licence and which certificates the driver needs:

• Van up to 3,500 kg: a standard category B driving licence. With a heavy trailer, category BE may be required.
• Lorry: category C1 or C, depending on the vehicle's permitted gross weight.
• Lorry with a heavy trailer, or articulated lorry: category CE.

So include the gross weight and any trailer in your booking.

Driver CPC (code 95) and other certificates

For commercial goods transport by lorry, the driver must as a rule hold a Driver CPC (chaufføruddannelsesbevis), also known as code 95. It must be renewed through periodic training every five years, so do ask about its validity.

Depending on the job, the following may also be needed:

• ADR certificate, if dangerous goods are being transported
• crane certificate (kranbevis) or crane operator certificate (kranførercertifikat), if the lorry has a lorry-mounted crane, depending on the size of the crane
• driver card for the digital tachograph, when the driving is covered by the rules on driving and rest times
• forklift certificate, if the driver will load with a forklift at the terminal

What kind of driving?

Experience counts for a lot behind the wheel, and it comes in many forms. So describe the driving:

Distribution

Many stops a day, unloading with a tail lift or pallet truck, and contact with recipients. Knowing the area is an advantage.

Long-distance and trunking

Longer trips, often at night, where planning driving and rest times is crucial to keeping to schedule.

Construction and crane lorries

Driving to construction sites with a tipper, crane or materials. Here the driver must also be able to move around and work safely on site.

Vans and courier work

Category B is enough, but the driver must be able to handle time pressure, route planning and many deliveries in a day.

The vehicle, the equipment and the recipients

Lorries are set up very differently, with a tail lift, crane, refrigeration unit or curtain sides, for example. A driver who knows the equipment gets going faster and takes better care of the vehicle. If there will be driving abroad, tell us which countries, as that may place extra demands on both paperwork and experience.

In distribution, the driver is often the only person from your company that the customer meets. So let us know if there are particular requirements for language, dress or handling of receipts and returns.

What we need to know

• vehicle type, gross weight and any crane, tail lift or refrigeration
• the type of goods, and whether any of it is dangerous goods
• whether the driver loads and unloads
• start time, routes and expected number of hours
• start date and expected duration

How it works

We find the driver among our own people or at approved partners. You have one contact person with us, and before anything is agreed, you receive a specific proposal based on the certificates and experience the job requires.

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Need the vehicle on the road? Go to book workers and tell us about the vehicle, the goods and the routes.