Chauffeur CV Examples & Writing Guide

The driver below is made up, but the details are the ones an operations manager at a chauffeur company or a family office looks for. Notice that the driving record appears in the personal statement, not buried at the bottom, and that every job says what kind of passenger and what kind of vehicle.

A chauffeur is trusted with an expensive car and a passenger who cannot afford to be late or embarrassed. Whoever is reading your CV is filtering for risk, not enthusiasm.

• Driving record. Years accident-free, miles driven, points. This is the first thing they check and the fastest way to be cut.
• Client class. Corporate executives, private families, weddings, medical transport and nightlife work are different jobs. Name yours.
• Vehicles. Saloon, SUV, stretch, Sprinter minibus, armoured. Say which you have driven and how many passengers, because that decides which licences you need.
• Discretion. Confidentiality agreements signed, no social media posts about clients, no names dropped on the CV. The CV itself is the test.
• Presentation and availability. Early mornings, late nights, on-call weekends, dark suit standard. Say what you can cover.

“Never put a client's name on your CV. A driver once handed me a CV listing the celebrities he had driven, and that was the interview over. Write the type of client, not the person. Discretion is half of what the client pays for.”

There is no single national chauffeur licence in the UK. What you need depends on who you drive for, where the operator is licensed and the size of the vehicle. Get this section right, because operators check it against the law before they check anything else.

• A full UK car licence (category B) covers a saloon, SUV or people carrier with up to 8 passenger seats. If you carry passengers for hire, you will usually also need a private hire driver licence from the council the operator is licensed with. Check your council's requirements rather than assuming.
• In London the private hire driver licence comes from Transport for London and is still often called a PCO licence. Councils and TfL run an enhanced DBS check, a DVLA check and a medical, and usually a knowledge or topographical test, before issuing it.
• Category D1 is needed for minibuses with 9 to 16 passenger seats, which covers most Sprinter minibuses, and category D for coaches and larger party buses. Both need Driver CPC if you drive them for a living.
• With D1 or D you also need a DVLA D4 medical when you apply, and again when the DVLA asks for it, plus 35 hours of Driver CPC training every 5 years.
• Airport work can come with its own rules for pickups, parking or drop-off set by the airport operator. If you hold an airport permit or account, list it.
• List each licence with the issuing authority and category, exactly as printed. "Private hire driver licence, Transport for London (current)" is right; "chauffeur licence" is not.
• Add your licence status ("no points") and, if you have it, an advanced driving qualification from IAM RoadSmart or RoSPA.

Three sentences: years plus record, client and vehicle type, then licences and availability. Use a career objective only if you have not been paid to drive professionally yet.

Driving bullets nearly always read the same. Add the passenger type, the vehicle, the volume and the reliability figure, and they stop sounding interchangeable.

Anyone can drive. What gets hired is the layer around the driving: the anticipation, the presentation and the quiet.

• Driving skills: defensive driving, smooth acceleration and braking for passenger comfort, night and winter driving, city and motorway routing, parking large vehicles, reversing a Sprinter, winter tyres or snow socks if your region needs them.

• Service skills: door and luggage etiquette, greeting protocol, cabin setup (water, temperature, charging), meet-and-greet with signage, waiting discreetly, handling schedule changes without complaint, knowing when not to speak.

• Practical skills: flight tracking apps, satnav and live traffic, dispatch and booking software, expense and mileage logging, vehicle checks, tyre and fluid checks, jump starts and spare wheel changes, valeting standards.

• Judgement: reading a client's mood, staying calm when a flight lands two hours late, planning a second route before you need it, and keeping everything you see and hear in the car to yourself.

These two employers want different CVs even though the driving is similar. Adjust the top half depending on who you are applying to.

• Chauffeur or executive car company: lead with volume, on-time percentage, vehicle types and licences. They are staffing a schedule and need throughput and compliance.
• Private family or family office: lead with length of service, discretion, flexibility and the range of duties you covered. Long stays with one family are the strongest signal you can give.
• Household roles often include more than driving: errands, school runs, vehicle fleet management, light property tasks, travel with the family. List them, because these employers are hiring one person to do all of it.
• For private roles, references matter more than metrics. Write "References available from two previous households" rather than naming the families.
• For corporate in-house driver roles, mention working with executive assistants, calendar coordination and handling visiting clients or board members.

Most chauffeurs come in from another driving job or from hospitality. Both routes work, and both need the same proof: a clean record and the ability to look after a passenger.

1. 1Check your own licence record on the DVLA's online service and put the result ("full UK licence, no points") on the CV. It is the strongest thing an inexperienced applicant can offer.
2. 2Take an advanced driving course. IAM RoadSmart and RoSPA courses are not expensive and give you a line to list.
3. 3Check whether you will need a private hire driver licence from your council (TfL in London), and start that process before applying rather than after.
4. 4Reframe what you have: delivery routes, private hire app trips, bus or shuttle work, valet parking, or hospitality jobs where you looked after guests.
5. 5Say what you know about the city and the airports, including terminal layouts and typical drive times at different hours.
6. 6State presentation and availability directly: business suit standard, early mornings, on-call weekends, no problem with waiting time.

• One page, two at most. Operators and household agencies read quickly and want the record, licences and vehicle list visible without scrolling.
• Plain layout, reverse chronological, no photo and no date of birth. That is the UK norm, even though chauffeur CVs in some other European countries include them.
• Put licences, entitlements, DBS and points status in a block near the top, not in a footer.
• Mirror the advert's words: chauffeur, executive car service, private hire, meet-and-greet, on-time performance, vehicle checks, Driver CPC, discretion, confidentiality.
• Never name clients. Write "a FTSE 100 financial services account" or "a private family in Surrey" instead.
• If you have long service with one employer or family, make it obvious. In this field, staying five years says more than anything else on the page.

Final check: could someone reading this hand you the keys to a £100,000 car and a client with a flight to catch? If the page does not answer that, move your record and your on-time number higher.