Driver licence suspensions for repeated personalised transport offences
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Suspensions
If you are a driver or operator of a booked hire or taxi service and you commit multiple or repeated personalised transport offences, we may suspend your Queensland driver licence or your driver authorisation. This means you cannot drive any vehicle on a Queensland road.
Your suspension period may vary, depending on your traffic history, as outlined in section 91ZJ of the Transport Operations Passenger Transport Act 1994(PT Act).
Penalties
If you commit 3 offences identified in the following list within a period of 3 years, we’ll suspend your driver licence. This can include committing the same offence multiple times or different offences.
We’ll suspend your driver licence for 1 month, or for 3 months if you’ve previously served a PT Act driver licence suspension.
You can’t appeal or have these penalties reconsidered. You can’t avoid these penalties if you apply for a| PT Act section | Description |
|---|---|
| 27(1) | Driver provides authorised public passenger service |
| 74(1)(a) | Driver provides taxi service when not using a taxi |
| 74(1)(b) | Provide taxi service when not using a taxi (not driver) |
| 74(2)(a) | Ply/stand vehicle for hire when not using taxi |
| 75(2)(a) | Driver provides booked hire service and starts journey in declared Taxi Service Area |
| 75(2)(b) | Provide booked hire service and start journey in declared Taxi Service Area (not driver) |
| 76(1)(a) | Driver provides booked hire service not using a booked hire vehicle, taxi or limo |
| 76(1)(b) | Provide booked hire service not using a booked hire vehicle, taxi or limousine (not driver) |
| 77(1)(a) | Driver not in taxi provides booked hire service through fixed booking device |
| 77(1)(b) | Provide booked hire service (not in taxi) using fixed booking device (not driver) |
| 78(2) | Driver provides booked hire service without authorised booking |
| 82(1) | Driver provides booked hire service while not carrying booking record |
| 82(3) | Driver does not produce booking record or allow authorised person to enter vehicle |
| Transport Operations (Road Use Management –Road Rules) Regulation 2009 | |
| 182 | Stop in a taxi zone while providing booked hire service |
How we let you know
After you commit 2 of the relevant offences, we’ll send you a courtesy notice about driving sanctions for passenger transport offences. This will advise that your driver licence may be suspended if you commit another relevant offence.
If you commit another relevant offence, we may suspend your driver licence. We’ll send you a Notice of driver licence suspension for passenger transport offences advising of the dates of the suspension period.
We’ll send any notices to your postal address, if you’ve given it to us, otherwise we’ll mail to your residential address.
Complying with the suspension
During the suspension period you must not drive a vehicle, including a private vehicle or a personalised transport vehicle. If you do, you may be charged with unlicensed driving and may be required to appear in court. If you don’t hold a Queensland driver licence, we’ll withdraw your authority to drive in Queensland or your ability to apply for a Queensland driver licence for the suspension period.
How it affects your Industry Authority
Once we suspend your driver licence, any industry authority you hold is also suspended for the same period. Examples of industry authorities include:
- driver authorisation
- tow truck driver certificate
- dangerous goods licence.
Therefore, you must not perform your industry authority role while your driver licence is suspended. This does not apply to a tow truck assistant certificate or traffic controller accreditation.
Do you have to return your driver licence?
No. We’ll automatically remove the sanction from your licence following the end date shown on the Notice of Driver Licence Suspension for Passenger Transport Offences (F5216) that we sent you.
Email [email protected] for more information.
- Last updated
- 19 July 2025