If you are planning a trip in the near future for you and a small party of friends and you need transportation to get you there and back, why not hire a minibus? No matter what the event might be or how far you might have to go to get there, there are Minibus services to suit your every need.

The Minibus also known as light buses or maxi cabs are a motor vehicle designed to carry small parties of people (less than a full sized bus) over a distance, with a reasonable standard of comfort. Minibuses come in all kind of sizes and are built by various manufacturers the world over.

By hiring a Minibus you are able to organise outings to locations anywhere in the UK and even abroad. Minibuses can be self driven (depending on the size of the minibus and the categories you may have on your driver's license) or you can usually hire a driver to drive the minibus for you at an extra charge.

In order for anyone to drive a Minibus lawfully in the UK, you must first have a D1 category driver's licence. Anyone who obtained their drivers licence before 1997, and is aged over 21 years is automatically able to drive a minibus with a capacity of 16 passengers as their licence includes the D1 entitlement.

Anybody who passed there test after January 1997 are not permitted to drive a vehicle containing more than 8 persons and would have to take a separate test to obtain the D1 entitlement. There are however exemptions for people driving a vehicle over 3500kgs if the vehicle is deigned to be wheelchair accessible.

Before hiring a minibus you should make sure that you will have somebody that is qualified to drive the vehicle for you and the rest of the passengers. If you don't know anybody that would be able to drive the bus for you then you would have to hire someone to drive the bus for you, for the safety of everyone on board. There are many private hire companies all over the UK that will provide Minibus Hire to us so you should have no trouble finding a company that can provide for your needs.