From the home page, click Register as Driver, complete your account details, and confirm your email address using the link sent to you. It is possible to register on a mobile device, but using a computer is recommended for easier profile setup.
Drivers should use a mobile number during registration because PVDA uses SMS notifications for key workflow events, including booking requests, responses, confirmations, and cancellations.
Drivers should complete their profile with accurate information including biography, licence details, CPC and Digi Tacho status where applicable, rates of pay, skills, costume sizes, driver imagery, training certificates, motorsport credentials, production history, and any driver-owned vehicles available for hire.
The availability calendar shows available days, booked days, and days you have marked as unavailable. If you need to block out a date, use Mark Unavailable and save your note. Employers will then be advised that you are unavailable for bookings on that day.
When an employer sends a booking request, the driver receives both email and SMS notification prompting them to review the request in PVDA. The driver can respond as available or unavailable, or decline the request entirely. The employer is then notified and can either confirm or cancel the job.
Yes. Drivers can add vehicles available for hire within their profile, upload vehicle images, and mark a vehicle as unavailable when required. A vehicle marked unavailable will no longer appear on the profile until it is made available again.
Driver documents and direct contact details are only made available to employers once a booking has been confirmed. This is part of the platform’s contact privacy and workflow control.
Drivers generate invoices from eligible un-invoiced booking days by selecting an employer and, if needed, applying a date range. They can then add additional expense lines such as fuel or parking, upload receipts, confirm actual start and finish times, save a draft, preview the PDF, and send the invoice to the employer.
Depending on the booking and driver profile, invoice calculations may include the standard day rate, overtime, unsociable hours surcharge, Saturday surcharge, Sunday surcharge, bank holiday surcharge, per diem, VAT where applicable, and approved additional expense lines.
An in-vision chit records when a driver appears in vision and is due direct payment from production. Drivers can upload chit images together with issuer and production accounts contact details through PVDA.
Unless the driver marks the chit as paid, reminder emails are sent 14 days after upload and then every 7 days thereafter until the chit is marked as paid.
Driver agency commission is charged at £10 per booking day. The same applies to vehicle bookings, so a driver and vehicle booked together on the same day would incur £20 in agency fees for that day. Agency fee invoices are issued at 9am each Friday and must be paid within 7 days.
If agency fee invoices are not paid within 7 days, the account becomes restricted. A restricted account will no longer appear in employer searches and will not be able to respond to booking requests until the account is brought back into good standing.