Prerequisites

You must fill in all preconditions following:

• Be old of 23 years minimum
• Have the license B for 3 years minimum
• Own one of the 2 diplomas following:
  
  • Bachelor's degree + 2 years (DEUG: titleContent, BTS: titleContent, DUT: titleContent, etc.), i.e. level 5 degree (minimum) (general or technological)
  
  
  • Training on the management and operation of driving education institutions (e.g. certification RUESCR: titleContent)
• Have passed a medical check which gave rise to a positive medical opinion approving that you can practice this profession (cerfa no. 14880). Only a licensed doctor can do this check. It's not your doctor. You can find the list of approved doctors on the website of your prefecture.
• Have a clean criminal record on bulletin n°2 (no criminal conviction)
• Not having undergone a prohibition of carrying on a commercial activity

Significant personal commitment

Embark on this trade request a personal and financial investment important: purchase or lease of the vehiclesmaintenance, purchase or lease of a local, technical skills in transport, management, management, etc.

Diversity of transport modalities

There are many types of transport: heavy or light transport, passenger or freight transport, transport with trailers, etc.

Learn more about the job and the different driving licenses that exist.

Verify that you have the right to become a merchant

If you hire one or more trainers, your company will be considered a business activity.

Then check that you can become a merchant.

Anticipating difficulties

• Prepare for company management :
  
  • You can follow a training to learn about entrepreneurship
  • Learn about management and accounting

These courses are optional, but recommended for your success.

• Plan for the difficulties
  
  • Make a financial reserve to deal with unforeseen events.
  • Prepare for the steady pace of work, at wide and staggered hours

Make a business plan

It is advisable to make a business plan of your future company.

It's a essential file for convince the banks to support you.

It is also a management tool over the first 3 years.

We explainhow to develop your business plan.

Who can help you?

You can also request different support solutions.

Get closer to the CCI: titleContent from your region.

Each CCI offers a training (3 to 5 days) to succeed your company creation project.

The CCI also offer personalized follow-up on your project.

Define the nature of your business: liberal or commercial?

If you are the manager and the only instructor of the driving school, your activity is considered liberal.

If you have at least one salaried instructor, your activity is commercial.

In any case, you must register your company on the website of the Window of company formalities.

Window of company formalities

Choose the legal shape of your company

You have to choose the status of your company.

You have the choice between 2 statuses:

• Individual business (EI). Within the EI status, you can choose the EI status of the micro-company.
• Business: EURL or SASU (single partner), SARL (if you have one or more partners), etc.)

Local dedicated to your company

You must be the owner or tenant of a space dedicated to your activity.

The premises must include 2 rooms separate, one of which must be phonetically isolated for teaching.

Control of the prefecture

The prefecture carries out a control to verify that your premises are compliant.

Depending on your status, you must provide the prefecture during the check, one of the following documents:

• Title of ownership
• Commercial Lease Agreement
• Professional rental lease agreement

Vehicles dedicated to teaching

You must own or rent the vehicle(s) dedicated to driving training.

You must provide the certificate of registration (vehicle registration certificate) for each vehicle or the lease agreement.

Vehicles must be insured.

You must provide the certificate of insurance covering damage that may result from accidents caused to other people. This is a professional insurance to be taken out with your usual insurer.

Apply

In order to be entitled to teach driving, each instructor must hold a permission to teach.

This is a card issued by the prefecture of department.

It's free.

You have to download the application form on the website of your prefecture.

You must fill out the form and collect the documents to be provided.

You address the whole thing by post to your prefecture.

In some departments, the process can also be done entirely on the site "demarche.numerique.gouv.fr".

Apply for a prefectural license or a license to teach driving

Conditions for obtaining it

You must fill in all conditions following:

• Have the permit B and hold other licenses for which you are training in your driving school (A license, B1 and BE license, C license, etc.). The permit must no longer be in probationary period.
• Have obtained the BEPECASER: titleContent or an equivalent recognized diploma or certificate
• Have passed a medical check valid and resulting in a positive medical opinion approving that you can practice this profession (cerfa no. 14880). Only a licensed doctor can do this check. It's not your doctor. You can find the list of approved doctors on the website of your prefecture.
• Have a clean criminal record on bulletin n°2 (no conviction criminal).

The duration from authorization to teach corresponds to that of the medical opinion.

Authorization to teach is valid 6 years maximum or 5 years for some licenses, it is degressive from the age of 60.

Documents to be provided

• 1 recent photo ID
• Photocopy of a valid piece of identification (double-sided national identity card or passport)
• Declaration of domicile
• NEPH number (Harmonized Prefectural Registration Number) indicated on the driving license
• Photocopy of the medical certificate certifying that you are fit to teach driving established by one of the doctors approved by the prefecture.
• Photocopy of BEPECASER: titleContent or theone of the equivalent qualifications or diploma.

Apply to the prefecture

You must apply for approval at the prefecture from your department.

Accreditation is proof that you meet all the necessary conditions to manage a driving school. You must apply for approval for each establishment if you manage several.

Approval is valid 6 years (within 8 years), renewable.

The request is free of charge. It is done very often online only or on the website of the prefecture from your department, or on the website "demarche.numerique.gouv.fr".

Apply for a prefectural license or a license to teach driving

Documents to be provided

For your file to be complete, you must provide the following:

• Proof of identity of the applicant
• Numbers Siren and Siret company
• Declaration of domicile of the applicant
• List of teachers with the number of their authorization to teach, or where applicable their temporary and restrictive authorization to practice. These authorizations must be valid
• List of vehicles, and where applicable trailers, used for teaching with their registration number
• Photocopy of the title deed, the lease or any other document authorizing the enjoyment of the premises accompanied by a plan and a description mentioning in particular the area and the arrangement of the rooms, as well as, where appropriate, the same rooms for all the premises operated in the department
• Justification of the ability to manage such an institution by holding one of the diplomas (minimum level 5 degree), qualifications or qualifications required:
  
  • either a State diploma or a diploma or diploma referred to or approved in higher or technological education of a level equivalent to or higher than level 5 attesting to legal, economic, accounting or commercial training or a foreigners diploma of a comparable level
  • or the certificate of professional qualification of the professional branch of motor vehicle services recognized by order of the Minister responsible for road safety.

You must view approval order visibly in your premises. The approval number must appear on your commercial or advertising documents.

Recruit, hire

Recruiting a monitor is a perspective for the development of your business.

If you're just starting out, you need to learn human resources practices, including recruitment and hiring of an employee.

Each instructor in your driving school must have authorization to teach card valid.

General obligations for each vehicle

• Pass one roadworthiness test mandatory (on 1^er must take place 4 years after the first release, the following every 2 years)
• Get a authorization to put into circulation issued in the form of a mention School Vehicle on the certificate of registration (vehicle registration certificate), except for scooters, 2 wheels of less than 50 cm³, the light and heavy motor quadricycles, the max scooters less than 15 kilowatts
  The authorization to put into circulation shall be valid:
  
  • 7 years for motorcycles and vehicles under 3.5 tons
  • 15 years for vehicles used for the training of persons with disabilities
  • 15 years for passenger and goods vehicles
  
  There is no age limit for trailers and semi-trailers.
• Have at least 4 seats for training in permit B
• Have professional insurance for accidents caused by students during training or examination

Equipment obligations per vehicle

Each vehicle shall have the equipment following:

• Steering wheel located at the driver's station, at the front left of the vehicle
• Dual brake and clutch control (except for vehicles with automatic shifting)
• Dual acceleration control, (decommissioning during driving license examination tests)
• 2 interior mirrors set for the student and the instructor (except for goods or passenger vehicles)
• 4 external side mirrors, located on the left and right, set for use by the student and the monitor (for vehicles under 3.5 tons, the left external mirror is not intended for the monitor)
• Dual control of horn, lights (position, crossing, road) and direction change indicator within immediate range of the monitor
• For 2 or 3-wheelers: approved device allowing a permanent (radio) connection between the instructor and each student, when the instructor is not on board the vehicle
• Signs or inscriptions visible from the front and from the rear, with one of the following indications: driving school, driving school, motorcycle school, driving school or motorcycle school (without any other indication, in particular advertising), placed either at the front and at the rear or on the roof (minimum dimensions: 40 x 12 cm, maximum 50 x 15 cm for a private car, dimensions: 100 x 30 cm for heavy goods vehicles, where they must be placed at the front and at the rear of vehicles)
• For 2 or 3-wheelers, mention motorcycle school or cycle school shall be clearly visible from the front and from the rear, either on two signs or inscriptions placed on the vehicle or on a fluorescent vest worn by the student driver and by the monitor when seated at the rear of the vehicle.

As a professional training organization, you need to make a declaration of your activity.

To do this, you must use the portal My training activity :

My training activity (MAF)

Every year you have to fill in a Pedagogical and financial assessment (GMP).

What is this about?

You can apply for this label to guarantee to your customers that your teaching adapts in a qualitative manner to all audiences, in particular public in difficulty.

The quality label is necessary for the financial support of training courses to driving within the framework of the Personal Training Account (PTA).

He is free.

It must be renewed every 3 years.

How to get it?

Your driving school can get it if it respects the 7 criteria following:

• Accurate identification of training objectives and adaptation to the trained public
• Adaptation of reception, pedagogical monitoring and evaluation systems to the different types of students
• Adequacy of pedagogical, technical and coaching resources to the training offer
• Professional qualification and continuous training of instructors
• Conditions for informing pupils about the training offer, its access times and the results obtained
• Taking into account the assessments made by students
• Registration and investment of the driving school in its professional environment

The application for membership of the label is made by form with the prefecture from your department.

Continuous training of instructors

The job of monitor requires that you train continuously, you and your employees.

This is one of the 7 criteria required to obtain the quality label.

To receive training, you must be up to date of your contribution for vocational training (CFPS).

Who can help you find and finance training?

To find a course you can use the following search tool:

Search for training with France Travail (formerly Job center)

You must inquire on the support for self-employed training.

To find a funding suitable for training, you can address you to the Agency.

It provides training for heads of company, self-employed managers and their collaborating or associate spouses.

To find funding in the field of training for professionals of the liberal, you can contact the FIFPL: titleContent :

Renew your 2 cards: accreditation and authorization to teach

It's at the operator and each teacher to make the process of their renewal. The operator shall apply for the renewal of the approval. Each teacher requests the renewal of his/her teaching authorization.

Renewal must be requested at least 2 months before the expiry date.

THEaccreditation is valid 6 years maximum. The operator shall provide evidence of training. The latter must attest to the updating of knowledge in the specific field of the activity carried out.

THEpermission to teach is valid 6 years maximum, or 5 years for some permits, then is degressive from the age of 60 years.

The duration of authorization corresponds to that ofmedical advice.

The medical opinion has a maximum duration of 6 years. However, the duration is shorter depending on the type of license and the age of the driver. The medical examination must thus be renewed:

• For the teaching of driving of vehicles of categories AM, A1, A2, A, B1, B and BE, all 6 years
• For the teaching of driving of vehicles of categories C1, C, C1E and CE, all 5 years up to the age of 60, every 2 years from 60 to 76 years; every year from 76 years
• For the teaching of driving of vehicles of categories D1, D, D1E and DE, all 5 years until the age of 60, every year from the age of 60.

Renewal requests are made either by post or online.

Documents to be provided

The operator shall provide the following documents:

• Evidence of refresher training in professional knowledge
• Updated list of teachers
• Updated list of vehicles
• Any document proving any change since the previous application for approval.

Choose an approval extension

This means that you expand the number of permit types to drive which you train in your driving school.

You must fill out the form application for extension of approval.

You have to download it on the website of your department prefecture. You can also apply online on the website of "démarches-simplifiées.fr".

Apply for a prefectural license or a license to teach driving

Declare your income

We explain the simplified reporting pathway.

You have to make your income tax return on the tax site, first on your business account and then on your personal account.

Online tax account for professionals (EFI mode)

Taxes: access your Public Finance area

Your contact for the payment of your contributions remains theUrssaf: titleContent.

If your spouse works with you

If you have a spouse and the spouse work with you, you must set its status.

He can be either a collaborating spouse, an associated spouse or an employed spouse.

We explain the conditions specific to each status and the steps to be taken.