Department of Road Transport and Safety - Palapye

The Department of Road Transport and Safety (DRTS) office in Palapye is a Botswana government office for vehicle and driver licensing, in the industrial area near Sefalana in Palapye, Central District. The Government of Botswana's list of DRTS offices and services gives this office's location as "Industrial near Sefalana" and records these services at Palapye: - registration and licensing of vehicles and drivers - driver examination (theory and practical tests) - vehicle examination - transport permits - road safety public education - transport inspectorate Government service pages on gov.bw state that the department's offices around the country are open from 07:30 to 15:30, Monday to Friday, except public holidays. Registering a vehicle requires a certified copy of an Omang or passport, a police clearance certificate, customs clearance and a fee set by vehicle weight that includes a mandatory P50 levy; a roadworthiness test is compulsory for vehicles three years old and over. The DRTS headquarters are at Tshomarelo House, the Botswana Savings Bank building at BBS Mall in Gaborone, on +267 368 8600. Palapye is a growing town in Central District on the A1 highway, roughly halfway between Gaborone (240 km) and Francistown (170 km), and the national railway passes through it. It is home to the Morupule Colliery, which supplies Morupule Power Station, Botswana's principal domestic source of electricity, and to the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), which took its first students in August 2012. The office's telephone numbers, as given in the government list, are +267 492 1687 and +267 492 4375 (fax +267 492 2162 or +267 492 4376), and its postal address is P. O. Box 36, Palapye.

Industrial area, Palapye, Botswana
Palapye

Near Sefalana

22°31′28″S 27°5′50″E

• Registration and licensing of vehicles and drivers
• Driver examination (theory and practical tests)
• Vehicle examination
• Transport permits
• Road safety public education
• Transport inspectorate