Rideshare, Taxi and COI Inspections in Beenleigh

If you drive for Uber, run a taxi, or operate a limousine, your certificate of inspection is not paperwork you can let slide. Without a current COI your registration cannot renew and your booked hire licence can be suspended, which means the car stops earning. Here is the promise this page makes. We will show you exactly who needs a COI, what it costs, how it differs from a safety certificate, how to pass the first time, and the renewal timing trick that means booking early never costs you a day. We are an approved inspection station in Beenleigh, we inspect and issue electronically on the spot, and taxi operators already trust us with their fleets.

The rule covers more vehicles than most drivers expect. Taxis, limousines and booked hire vehicles, which is every car working on Uber, DiDi and the other platforms, all need a current COI, renewed every year. TMR’s certificate of inspection requirements for personalised transport confirm the scope, and they carry one piece of good news, a new vehicle is exempt for its first year of registration. The table below lays out who needs one, where they get it, and the exemption.

Straight answer, and here is the part drivers appreciate. The COI inspection fee is regulated by the Queensland Government, so it is the same at every approved inspection station. As at 1 July 2026 the fee for a light vehicle up to 4.5 tonnes is $104.50, set out on the TMR inspection fees page, and TMR indexes it each July. What separates workshops is everything around the fee. If the vehicle needs work to pass, we quote the repairs separately and clearly before touching anything, and because we are a full workshop, the fix and the certificate happen under one roof instead of two bookings across town.

The two get mixed up constantly, and the difference is simple. A safety certificate is the one off roadworthy you need when you sell or re register a private car. A COI is the annual certificate for vehicles that work, taxis, rideshare, limousines, buses and heavy vehicles. If you are selling your own car, you want our safety certificate service. If your car earns money carrying passengers, you need the COI on this page, every year, no exceptions past the first year exemption for a new vehicle. One car can need both in its life, a COI while it works on the platforms, then a safety certificate on the day you sell it.

Here is the detail that saves you money and stress. Under the Queensland rules, if your vehicle is inspected up to two months before the current COI expires, the new certificate starts the day after the old one ends, so booking early costs you nothing off the back end. Renew at the last minute instead and you are gambling your income on a pass. The smart pattern for a working driver is simple, book the inspection about a month before expiry, leave room to fix anything found, and sign up for TMR’s free expiry reminders so the date never ambushes you. We see the drivers who book early sail through, and the ones who book on expiry day sweat on every globe.

Nothing good, and it compounds fast. Without a current COI your registration cannot be renewed, and driving on an expired COI is an offence unless an exemption or an extension applies. For booked hire drivers it goes further, the platforms and TMR check your compliance against the personalised transport register, and an expired COI can see your booked hire service licence suspended or cancelled, which switches your income off overnight. The fix is never dramatic, it is just the renewal done on time. If yours has already lapsed, call us today, we will get the car inspected and the certificate lodged electronically the same visit wherever the diary allows.

Your COI is one leg of a three legged stool, and the platforms check all three against the personalised transport register. To keep a booked hire service licence current, the vehicle needs Queensland registration with the correct purpose of use recorded, a current certificate of inspection, and the correct compulsory third party insurance class for booked hire work. Let any one lapse and the licence, and the income, stops. We handle the COI leg, and while the car is here we will happily sanity check the rest of the stool, because a driver suspended over a paperwork mismatch hurts just as much as one suspended over a bald tyre.

Beenleigh sits in the perfect spot for a working driver’s inspection, just off the M1 between the Brisbane and Gold Coast platforms most local drivers work. We inspect for rideshare and taxi drivers across Beenleigh, Eagleby, Holmview, Mount Warren Park, Yatala and the wider Logan corridor, and the workshop location means the COI can slot around your driving day rather than cutting a hole in it. Book the early slot, and the car is inspected, certified electronically, and back earning before the lunch peak.

Book your certificate of inspection in Beenleigh today. Call 07 3200 2884, tell us the vehicle and the expiry date, and we will build the booking around your driving day.