What does PSV stand for?

The driver hired by Ysgol yr Hendre didn't have a licence to carry passengers on a public service vehicle - and had not undergone a criminal record check.

ISLAMABAD, October 11, 2009 (Frontier Star): Secretary Islamabad Transport Authority, Asia Gul has issued challan tickets to 165 Public Service Vehicles (PSVs) while 10 vehicles were impounded for violations of traffic rules during one week.

Public Service Vehicles include coach hire vehicles as coaches carry passengers for an agreed cost.

It develops and maintains a regulatory framework for the control and operation of small public service vehicles.

Zafar Quyoom, 37, of Green Lane, Acklam, banned from driving for 12 months and fined pounds 1,150 with pounds 400 costs for using a vehicle as a public service vehicle without a public service vehicle operator's licence, permitting another person to drive without an appropriate licence, using a public service vehicle without appropriate markings or a certificate of initial fitness, and using a vehicle without a test certificate.

Black cabs are, like buses, public service vehicles whereas private hire vehicles are by definition the same as privately chartered coaches.

After realising he was often carrying his friends around as well, he approached the Shaw Trust for a grant to get the van through its public service vehicle test to launch Les's Minibus Hire.

More than 200 students from all over the country study with the college on the public service vehicle apprenticeship programmes.