Prerequisites

You must complete all preconditions following:

• Be old of 23 years minimum
• Have the license B for 3 years minimum
• Own one of the 2 diplomas following:
  
  • Diploma level bac + 2 years (DEUG: titleContent, BTS: titleContent, DUT: titleContentetc.), i.e. a level 5 degree (minimum) (general or technological)
  
  
  • Training on the management and operation of driving education institutions (e.g. certification RUESCR: titleContent)
• Have spent a medical check having given 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 primary care physician. You can find the list of licensed 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 job request one 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.

Find out 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 commercial 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 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's also a management tool over the first three 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 of your region.

Each KIC shall propose a training (3 to 5 days) to succeed your company creation project.

The CCIs also each offer personalized follow-up on your project.

Define the nature of your business: liberal or commercial?

If you are the manager and 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 form of your company

You have to choose the status of your company.

You have the choice between 2 statuses:

• ₪(EI). Within the EI status, you can choose the 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 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 ({circumflex over (a)}) 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

To be entitled to teach driving, each instructor must have a permission to teach.

This is a card issued by the prefecture of department.

It's free. It must be renewed every 5 years.

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

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

You address all of it by post to your prefecture.

In some departments, the process can also be done entirely on the site "démarches-simplifiées.fr".

Simplified online procedures for driving schools (driving license, prefectural approval, teaching authorization, etc.)

Conditions for obtaining it

You must complete all conditions following:

• Be old of 20 years minimum
• Have the license B for 3 years minimum and hold the other licenses for which you are training in your driving school (A license, B1 and BE license, C license, etc.)
• Have obtained the BEPECASER: titleContent or an equivalent recognized diploma or certificate
• Have spent a medical check having given 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 primary care physician. You can find the list of licensed doctors on the website of your prefecture.
• Have a clean criminal record on bulletin n°2 (no conviction criminal)

Documents to be provided

• 2 identical identity photos with your name and surname on the back
• Photocopy of a valid identity document (double-sided national identity card or passport)
• Photocopy of proof of residence less than 3 months old
• Duplex/reverse copy of driver's license
• Photocopy of the medical certificate of less than 2 years attesting that you are fit to teach driving established by one of the doctors approved by the prefecture
• Photocopy of BEPECASER: titleContent

Apply to the prefecture

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

Accreditation is proof that you meet all the necessary conditions to manage a driving school.

You must apply for registration for each establishment if you manage several.

Approval is valid 5 years, renewable.

The request is free of charge. It is done very often online only or on the website of the prefecture of your department, or on the website "simplified procedures.fr".

Simplified online procedures for driving schools (driving license, prefectural approval, teaching authorization, etc.)

Documents to be provided

Recruit, hire

Recruiting an instructor is a perspective for the development of your business.

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

Every instructor in your driving school must have the teaching authorization card valid.

General obligations for each vehicle

• Pass a 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 as a mention School Vehicle on the certificate of registration ({circumflex over (X)}), except for scooters, 2 wheels of less than 50 cm³, light and heavy motor quadricycles, maxi scooter 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 freight transit 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 include the equipment following:

• Steering wheel located at the driver's station, on the left front of the vehicle
• Dual brake and clutch control (except for automatic shifting vehicles)
• Dual acceleration control, (decommissioning during driving test)
• 2 interior mirrors adjusted for the student and the monitor (except for goods or passenger vehicles)
• 4 external side mirrors, left and right, set to be used 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, passing, route) and direction change indicator within immediate range of the monitor
• For 2 or 3-wheelers: approved device allowing a permanent (radio) connection between the monitor and each student, when the monitor is not on board the vehicle
• Signs or inscriptions visible from the front and from the rear, with one of the following particulars: 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 must make a reporting 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 services in difficulty.

The quality label is necessary for the financial support of trainings 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 different types of students
• Adequacy of pedagogical, technical and supervisory 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 the students
• Registration and investment of the driving school in its professional environment

The application to join the label is made by form with the prefecture of your department.

Continuous training of instructors

The profession of monitor requires you to 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 Vocational Training Contribution (VET).

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 Pôle emploi)

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

Each of these cards is valid 5 years.

It's at you and every teacher to make the process of their renewal every 5 years.

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 "démarches-simplifiées.fr" website.

Simplified online procedures for driving schools (driving license, prefectural approval, teaching authorization, etc.)

Declare your income

We explain the simplified reporting path.

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

Online tax account for professionals (EFI mode)

Taxes: access to your space Private

Your contact person 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.

It 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.