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    • Trucking
    • Passenger Transportation
  • Engineering
    • BC Projects
    • BC Infrastructure
    • Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
    • BC Highway History
  • Environment
    • Wildlife
    • Avalanche and Weather Program
    • Active Transportation
    • Adopt a Highway
    • Transit
  • Emergency Events
    • Current Road Advisories and Information
    • About Avalanche
    • About Flooding
    • About Wildfire
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    • Career Stories
    • TELP/EIT/GIT Program

Passenger Transportation

Information about day-to-day business of commercial passenger transportation licencing in B.C.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Ride-hailing in BC

December 18, 2023January 23, 2020 11 Comments

Ride-hailing isn’t straightforward, so here’s our simplified take on the topic, to show you how passenger transportation regulations help ensure a safe ride in BC. What is Ride Hailing? Ride-hailing is an arrangement where for-profit,

Categories BC Travellers, Passenger Transportation, Tips and How Tos

A Closer Look At Commercial Passenger Transportation Licencing

April 19, 2022December 17, 2019 10 Comments

If you’re driving people around, and you’re making money at it, you probably need a licence. Follow our chart to see what happens with general authorization licences and special authorization licences.

Categories Passenger Transportation

Who Ya Gonna Call? Your BC Transportation FAQs

July 31, 2023November 25, 2015 98 Comments

Planning parades, towing boats and RVs, licensing limos or developing rural subdivisions? We hear all kinds of questions about all kinds of topics… It’s natural that many of these questions come to our offices across

Categories Passenger Transportation, Tips and How Tos, Trucking

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