Authorized Motor Carriers

This information was updated on 11/5/2009. These companies have proper insurance and registration on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Passenger Carriers

• Contract Bus Carrier - A person who contracts to transport groups of passengers using only charter buses and who charges a group fee.
  Charter Bus - a motor vehicle manufactured with a minimum seating capacity of 32 passengers or more, excluding the driver.
• Contract Passenger Carrier - A person who contracts to transport groups of passengers and who charges a group fee. (Includes those carriers formerly licensed as charter party, limousine or executive sedan carriers).
• Employee Hauler Carrier - A person who transports employees of a business to and from their place of work.
• Irregular Route Common Carrier - Passengers - A person who transports the general public for individual fees over any routes within specified areas of Virginia.
• Non-Profit/Tax Exempt Passenger Carrier - A non-profit corporation that uses only minibuses to transport its own members or the elderly, disabled, or economically disadvantaged members of a community.
• Regular Route Common Carrier - Passengers - A person who transports the general public for individual fees over specific routes.
• Sight Seeing Carrier - A person who transports the general public to and from points of interest in Virginia primarily for the passengers' experience and enjoyment and/or to promote tourism.
• Taxicab - A person who transports passengers in vehicles that are designed to transport no more than six passengers, excluding the driver.

Freight Carriers

• Bulk Property Carrier - A person who transports only bulk commodities (such as sand or gravel) or who operates wreckers for-hire.
  Bulk Commodities - any non-liquid, non-gaseous commodity shipped loose or in mass/aggregate and which in the loading and unloading thereof is ordinarily shoveled, scooped, forked, or mechanically conveyed or which is not in containers, or in units of such size to permit piece by piece loading and unloading.
• Household Goods Carrier - A person who transports only household goods.
  Household Goods - personal effects and property used or to be used in a dwelling, when part of the equipment or supplies of such dwelling, and similar property if the transportation of such effects or property is i)arranged and paid for by the householder, including transportation of the property from a factory or store when the property is purchased by the householder with intent to use it in his dwelling or (ii)arranged and paid for by another party.
• Property Carrier Non-Bulk - A person who transports property.