Professional Driver is an authoritative and campaigning monthly publication serving the UK private hire, taxi and chauffeur sector, one of the most dynamic and growing parts of the UK fleet and business car market.

Professional Driver is a controlled-circulation, business-to-business magazine with a monthly frequency (12 issues a year and a circulation of 18,259.
The publication was launched May 2009, and was bought by its management team in January 2020. The sector accounts for significant sales of large cars, with a rich mix of up-market saloons, luxury SUVs and MPVs. The market is significant too - total licensed vehicle numbers in England increased by 9.3% to 242,200 from 2013-14. In addition, there are approximately 21,000 taxi and private hire vehicles in Scotland and 9,000 in Wales. In England, there has been an overall 31.2%increase in licensed vehicles since 2005.
Professional Driver circulates to all UK fleet operators of private hire and chauffeur vehicles and, outside London, taxi operators. The readership includes extremely large fleets such as Addison Lee, several thousand UK operators with in excess of 50 cars, and smaller niche operators, right down to one-car licenced chauffeur operators.

The companies operating in the sector are highly professional, and have a need for information, news, features and advice designed to help
them operate both profitably and professionally. Our targeted editorial mix offers market-specific news, features, operator profiles, road tests written specifically for chauffeurs and operators, and business advice stories. The magazine is a business-to-business title, but presented in a more consumer-oriented format than most automotive B2B titles. We carry an extensive news section every month, all of it specifically generated for our readership. This incisive news is largely exclusive to Professional Driver and is generally not available elsewhere, other than our magazine and our website, which is used to keep rolling stories going and keep a flow of stories in between our monthly publishing slots. Professional Driver Editor Mark Bursa was voted Business Writer of the Year in the 2019 Guild of Motoring Writers’ Awards on the strength of Professional Driver’s editorial content.

Professional Driver QSi Awards
Our Quality, Service and Innovation (QSi) reader awards were launched in 2013. This initiative recognises the best companies and drivers in the private hire and chauffeur sector. There are 11 categories, and Gold, Silver and Bronze awards are presented in each one. Entries were of an extremely high standard, and around 350 people attend an annual black tie dinner.  The QSi Awards and the Car of the Year Awards are presented at the event. It has become a major feature of the calendar for our sector, and is the only event of its kind for operators in our industry.
Professional Driver Car of the Year Awards
The Professional Driver Car of the Year Awards was launched in 2009. It is the most thorough reader-judged car awards programme in the automotive industry. There are seven categories and an overall winner. Each year we organize a judging event
at Epsom Downs race course in Surrey, where around 50 vehicles are supplied for judging in seven categories. In 2024around 100 judges participated, including more than 30 heads of leading companies in our industry. Cars are tested on the road and on site, with thorough judging criteria aimed at assessing their worth for our readers’ purposes. The winners are presented at our QSi Awards dinner.
The ProDriver 100
The ProDriver 100 is the definitive league table of the UK’s private hire and taxi industry. It is compiled in partnership with leading computer systems suppliers.  The ProDriver 100 ranks the leading UK companies in order of fleet size. It is a unique piece of major research and is presented as a supplement within Professional Driver. Britain’s 100 largest private hire and taxi fleets operate in excess of 40,000 vehicles – close to 20% of the estimated 260,000 vehicles operated for hire and reward in the UK.
ProDriver Congress London
In 2016, Professional Driver launched another major reader engagement initiative with a one-day conference at the Heathrow Renaissance Hotel, addressing major issues, including TfL regulations, Heathrow Airport, combatting new market entrants such as Uber, and the adoption of technology. 
Website
In addition to a monthly magazine, we put together a well-read website containing unique news, features and road tests. Professional Driver has a strong online following with 58,000 readers of our digital edition each month. Subscribers receive an email containing a link to their personal edition and a brief overview of what is included in each monthly edition. The website also includes information about awards and events, and allows readers to register online for events such as ProDriver Congress, and to enter online for the QSi Awards.