Once you have your commercial driver licence, transport service licence, endorsement, inspecting organisation or vehicle inspector appointment, you must maintain good standards of behaviour and demonstrate good safety practices.
All commercial drivers are regularly reviewed by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency to make sure they continue to meet our fit and proper criteria. This is part of our ongoing commitment to road safety and improving driving standards on our roads.
We use real-time monitoring to make sure you continue to meet the criteria. We must be satisfied you are a fit and proper person.
Waka Kotahi - our regulatory role
All Persons in control listed on your Transport service licence must be a fit and proper person. We use real-time monitoring to make sure they continue to meet the criteria.
To make sure people are safe while using passenger services in New Zealand, we check and monitor the background of all passenger service drivers.
This includes:
We also consider any information, from any source, relevant to the driver's status as a fit and proper person.
Fit and proper person checks for P endorsements
Being endorsed to recover vehicles, be a driving instructor or be a testing officer puts you in a position that people need to trust. To make sure people are safe while using these services in New Zealand, we use real-time data to make sure you continue to meet our fit and proper person criteria.
Fit and proper person check: VIO endorsements
Improving road safety is a priority for Waka Kotahi. To create a road system where fewer people die or are seriously injured, we need to improve the safety of all parts of the system, and this is a job for all of us. Inspecting organisations or vehicle inspectors (IO or VI) play an important part by making sure vehicles are safe and comply with required standards when they are inspected and/or certified.
Anyone wanting to be appointed an IO and VI must be and remain a fit and proper person.
Fit and proper person guidelines for inspecting organisations and vehicle inspectors(external link)
Once you've got your heavy vehicle licence, we'll monitor:
Any traffic offences obtained on a class 1 (car) or class 6 (motorbike) licence will also affect your fit and proper person check.
If the real-time monitoring shows you are not meeting the criteria for a fit and proper person, you'll get a letter. If you continue to offend, you may have action taken against you.
