Drivers who are licensed by Nottingham City Council must provide the documents listed below to be considered for driving on the Bolt platform.
Please follow carefully the instructions to have your documents successfully reviewed for account activation:
- DVLA Driving Licence
- DVLA Check Code
- Private Hire and Hackney Carriage Driver Badge
- Hackney Carriage Drivers Licence and Private Hire Drivers Licence
- Private Hire Vehicle Licence
- Hire and Reward Insurance Certificate
- Bank statement
- Profile picture
DVLA Driving Licence
- Must be a photograph of the front of the current UK DVLA Plastic Driving Licence
- Must be a full licence, not provisional
- Address (including postcode) must match with your Private Hire Driver's licence
DVLA Check Code
- Must be generated on the government webpage ↗ or by calling the DVLA
- Must be a combination of letters and numbers exactly as shown on the webpage - the code is case-sensitive (please underline the capital letters if you are copying the code)
Private Hire and Hackney Carriage Driver Badge
- Must be issued by Nottingham City Council
- Must be a photograph of the front of the current PHD / Hackney Carriage Driver Badge
- Your image, PHL Number, Name and Expiry Date must be clearly shown
- Your Licence Number, Name and Expiry Date must match your PHL
Hackney Carriage Drivers Licence and Private Hire Drivers Licence
- Must be issued by Nottingham City Council
- Must be a clear photograph of the entire page
- Must be a valid document
Private Hire Vehicle Licence
- Must be issued by Nottingham City Council
- Must be a clear photograph of the entire page
- Must be a valid Private Hire Vehicle Licence
- In case you have renewed your PHV licence but have not received the document yet, please upload your Certificate of Compliance in replacement of the PHV. Please note that CoC is valid only 30 days from the date of issue.
- Must be issued by Nottingham City Council
- Must be a clear photograph of the entire page
Hire and Reward Insurance Certificate
- The insurance policy must cover Private Hire/Hire or Reward
- Make sure that the Insurance policy does not have any typos in your name
- Insurance documents with time restrictions on coverage are not accepted
If you rent a car:
- Fleet insurance policy certification and any other supporting documents such as Policy Schedule (Driver and Vehicle schedule) or/and Permission letter
Bank statement
- Must be for the same account that you will receive your Bolt payments to
- The account must be in your name
- We accept only personal bank details (including joint personal accounts)
- The address, sort code and account number must be visible
- The statement must not be over 3 months old
- This can be shown as an issue date or as a date of a transaction
- The financial details of the transactions can be excluded from the statement (cropped or blurred out)
Profile picture
- Visible to clients on Bolt passenger App
- Matches the requirements.
