1️⃣ Types of transport
- 🏫 By purpose: School (home–school routes) or minors (field trips, activities).
- 💳 By nature: Public (paid) or private complementary (run by the school).
- 📝 By contract: Dedicated school vehicles or contracted concessionary companies.
- 🌍 By scope: Urban or interurban.
2️⃣ Transport subject to the legislation
Applies when minors under 16 are travelling in:
- 🚌 Special regular school transport (if 1/3 or more are minors).
- 🚊 General regular transport (if 1/2 or more are minors).
- 🎓 Charter transport (if 3/4 or more are minors).
- 🛋️ Private complementary transport (if 1/3 or more are minors).
3️⃣ Transport authorization
✅ Only companies with administrative authorization may provide school or minor transport. Required:
- 📅 Vehicles within permitted age
- ⚖️ Valid insurance
- 🔧 Suitable technical specifications
4️⃣ Vehicle requirements
📅 Age
General rule: maximum 10 years from first registration. Up to 16 years if specific conditions are met.
🔧 Technical characteristics
- 🚗 Category M (passenger transport)
- 🌟 Type-approved seat belts and boosters according to age
- 🛀 Safe, well-anchored seats
- ⚠️ ABS, speed limiter, and tachograph
- 🔍 Regulation mirrors and indirect-vision devices
- 🚑 First-aid kit and fire extinguishers
- 🚪 Safe doors and emergency exits
5️⃣ Distinctive for transporting minors
Mandatory use of the V-10 sign 🔹 (plates visible at the front and rear). Only illuminated during the stop.
6️⃣ Vehicle Inspection (ITV)
🚨 Mandatory to verify technical requirements. Recorded on the ITV card.
7️⃣ Staff obligations
🔧 Drivers
Class D1 or D license depending on the number of seats.
🧑👩🛋️ Mandatory attendant
- Adult and suitable, different from the driver
- Present when at least 1/3 are under 16 or there are students with special needs
- 🚪 Oversees boarding, alighting, and accompanying
8️⃣ Passenger conditions
- ⏱ Duration: maximum 1 hour per journey
- 🚗 Speed: 10 km/h below the usual limit
- 🛋️ Stops: Safe, on the right-hand side or with special signage
- 🚬 No smoking
9️⃣ Other obligations
💼 Compulsory insurance
✅ Unlimited civil liability for damage to occupants.
🏢 Organizing entity
- ✅ Verify transport authorization
- 🔹 Set up safe routes within time limits
- 👥 Accredit the attendant
📄 These regulations ensure that school and minor transport is carried out with maximum safety, responsibility, and professionalism.
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