Driving for a ride source company

To drive with a ride source platform, you need a PPV-other ancillary certificate and X-condition put onto your licence.

To do this, you will need to:

• Contact your platform provider for information about to how to apply (If you’re already a ride source operator but want to change your ride source platform, please fill in the Ride Source – application to nominate a platform provider form and send it to ridesource@stategrowth.tas.gov.au).

Ride source – checklist for lodging an application

To be eligible, you must meet the ancillary certificate eligibility requirements, and:

• nominate a ride source vehicle to be linked to your ancillary certificate (you can only drive with your nominated vehicle when operating as a ride source).
• show that you understand the Road Rules and the legislative requirements for operating a PPV by reading and understanding the requirements, and make a declaration in your ride source application form.

Your PPV-Other ancillary certificate and X condition will be valid for 12 months. A renewal notice will be emailed to you before it expires.   Your nominated vehicle will have to undergo the required inspection.

To keep your certificate and licence condition, you’ll have to:

• complete an annual medical declaration unless you have a medical condition that may affect your driving
• supply an inspection report for your nominated ride source vehicle(s).

We can also request that you take a medical assessment more regularly or at any time.

Your nominated vehicle must:

• be lighter than 4.5 tonnes
• have a Tasmanian registration
• be roadworthy
• must be registered in the name of the ancillary certificate holder
• pass a vehicle inspection and undertake annual inspections (you must contact your platform provider to ensure your vehicle meets their vehicle requirements)
• display a vehicle inspection roadworthy label on the top left-hand corner of the front windscreen.

To update or change your ride source vehicle, you must send ridesource@stategrowth.tas.gov.au the following:

• A ride Source – vehicle change form
• An inspection report.

To change your platform provider, you must send ridesource@stategrowth.tas.gov.au:

• A Ride-source – application to nominate a platform provider form with your new platform provider’s details.