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Van drivers risk £703m in fines
- 06/11/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Almost half (48%) of UK van drivers admitted that they overloaded their vans last year, despite 89% claiming to know the legal weight restriction for their light commercial vehicle. This is according to a survey by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Overloading a vehicle by as much as 30% of its gross vehicle [...] -
DVSA announces stricter protocols for MOT testers
- 20/10/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced new annual training measures for MOT testers who fail to complete their annual training within the annual training year. At the moment, MOT testers failing to complete the year’s annual training are required to do a demonstration test with the DVSA and [...] -
DVSA updates Code of Practice
- 21/07/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has updated its ‘Code of Practice: Safety of Loads on Vehicles’. The code of practice brings together all current load security guidance into one place. It gives vehicle operators, drivers, transport managers and those [...] -
Vehicle recalls added to MOTs
- 19/07/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
In a further improvement to DVSA MOT digital services, real time vehicle recalls information will be added to the MOT Testing Service (MTS), the vehicle’s MOT history, MOT reminders and the MOT certificate. The service will provide testers and motorists daily recall data in real-time, with manufactures of nearly [...] -
1.3 million MOT failures on the road
- 10/05/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
One-in-10 cars that passed their MOT last year should have failed, according to an investigation by What Car?. This equates to nearly 1.3 million cars on the road now with potentially dangerous defects. As part of the 2021-2022 MOT Compliance Survey, a team of DVSA expert vehicle examiners retested 1,732 [...] -
Car thefts near 100,000 in a year
- 29/03/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
A Freedom of Information request to The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) by Claims Management & Adjusting (CMA) has revealed the total number of vehicle thefts in the UK last year and identified the nation’s worst car crime hotspots. According to the DVLA, constabularies across the UK recorded [...] -
Drivers facing 17 million training hours
- 28/03/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
According to DVSA statistics 487,505 Driver Qualification Cards issued in 2019 are set to expire before the end of 2024. Between them, these drivers who have to renew their card will need to attend a staggering 17 million hours of periodic training. On average, that’s 3.4 million hours of training each year, for [...] -
Deadline looms for MOT testers
- 03/03/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has warned that 25,000 testers have still not completed their assessment and risk being suspended from testing when the deadline passes on 31 March. To ease the administrative process, the IMI’s MOT Training and Assessment package is a three-hour e-Learning training [...] -
EVs experience higher MOT failure rates
- 18/08/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Electric vehicles have higher MOT failure rates than equivalently aged hybrid and petrol vehicles. According to new research by BookMyGarage, DVSA data showed electric vehicles have a MOT failure rate of 11.4% for three-year-old vehicles, which rises to 21.8% for six-year-old vehicles. At 11.2%, three-year-old [...] -
Driving tests back to pre-pandemic levels
- 15/08/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has reported that the number of practical tests have returned to pre-Covid numbers. Comparing practical tests in January to March 2022 with the same months in 2020, it found that a total of 425,900 practical car tests were conducted – and increase of 14%. Out of [...]
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