This Council notes:
• The significant increase in road traffic accidents involving courier and food delivery vehicles within Coventry and across the UK.
• The growing number of delivery drivers and riders operating on our roads, including those using e-bikes, often without formal licensing or safety checks.
This Council believes:
• Public safety is paramount and must be protected through robust regulation of the delivery sector.
• Mandatory licensing for both drivers and vehicles will help ensure roadworthiness, accountability, and compliance with legal standards.
• Delivery work should not be an avenue for unsafe, uninsured, or unregulated road use.
This Council resolves to call on the Government to:
1. Introduce mandatory licensing for all drivers and vehicles used for delivery purposes, including e-bikes.
2. Require all goods and food delivery drivers to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before commencing work.
3. Require all delivery drivers to register with HMRC before starting work with a delivery company.
4. Require that all vehicles used in delivery services — including cars, motorbikes, scooters, and e-bikes — obtain a license from their local authority confirming their roadworthiness.
5. Mandate that all e-bike riders wear helmets and prohibit any illegal modifications that increase speed beyond legal limits.
Minutes:
The following Motion was moved by Councillor N Akhtar and seconded by Councillor M Mutton:
“This Council notes:
• The significant increase in road traffic accidents involving courier and food delivery vehicles within Coventry and across the UK.
• The growing number of delivery drivers and riders operating on our roads, including those using e-bikes, often without formal licensing or safety checks.
This Council believes:
• Public safety is paramount and must be protected through robust regulation of the delivery sector.
• Mandatory licensing for both drivers and vehicles will help ensure roadworthiness, accountability, and compliance with legal standards.
• Delivery work should not be an avenue for unsafe, uninsured, or unregulated road use.
This Council resolves to call on the Government to:
1. Introduce mandatory licensing for all drivers and vehicles used for delivery purposes, including e-bikes.
2. Require all goods and food delivery drivers to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before commencing work.
3. Require all delivery drivers to register with HMRC before starting work with a delivery company.
4. Require that all vehicles used in delivery services — including cars, motorbikes, scooters, and e-bikes — obtain a license from their local authority confirming their roadworthiness.
5. Mandate that all e-bike riders wear helmets and prohibit any illegal modifications that increase speed beyond legal limits”.
The following amendment was moved by Councillor J Gardiner, seconded by Councillor M Lapsa, and lost:
“Insert the following at the end of the Motion:
6. That delivery drivers and riders must carry a copy of their licence at all times and produce it when requested.
7. This licence should display photo ID as well as the license number.
8. Licensing also be extended to pedal bike riders engaged in commercial delivery beyond a child’s paper round.
9. That bikes, scooters and e-bike riders display a unique registration number on their vehicle large enough to be viewed by law enforcement from a distance and identifiable by security cameras.
10. This unique registration number be displayed on the bike/e-bike and helmet, front and back
11. That licensing involves automatic notification to immigration for those who are not British citizens.”
The amended Motion now to read:
This Council notes:
• The significant increase in road traffic accidents involving courier and food delivery vehicles within Coventry and across the UK.
• The growing number of delivery drivers and riders operating on our roads, including those using e-bikes, often without formal licensing or safety checks.
This Council believes:
• Public safety is paramount and must be protected through robust regulation of the delivery sector.
• Mandatory licensing for both drivers and vehicles will help ensure roadworthiness, accountability, and compliance with legal standards.
• Delivery work should not be an avenue for unsafe, uninsured, or unregulated road use.
This Council resolves to call on the Government to:
1. Introduce mandatory licensing for all drivers and vehicles used for delivery purposes, including e-bikes.
2. Require all goods and food delivery drivers to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before commencing work.
3. Require all delivery drivers to register with HMRC before starting work with a delivery company.
4. Require that all vehicles used in delivery services — including cars, motorbikes, scooters, and e-bikes — obtain a license from their local authority confirming their roadworthiness.
5. Mandate that all e-bike riders wear helmets and prohibit any illegal modifications that increase speed beyond legal limits.
6. That delivery drivers and riders must carry a copy of their licence at all times and produce it when requested.
7. This licence should display photo ID as well as the license number.
8. Licensing also be extended to pedal bike riders engaged in commercial delivery beyond a child’s paper round.
9. That bikes, scooters and e-bike riders display a unique registration number on their vehicle large enough to be viewed by law enforcement from a distance and identifiable by security cameras.
10. This unique registration number be displayed on the bike/e-bike and helmet, front and back
11. That licensing involves automatic notification to immigration for those who are not British citizens.
RESOLVED that the original Motion, as set out in bold above, be adopted.