Senior leaders from DVSA and CPT came together for immersive visits designed to give a practical understanding of each organisation’s work and the pressures they face.
Over the past few years, we’ve made major changes to how Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) applications are processed. We have introduced Manage your Vehicle Testing (MyVT) – the successor to the Technical Application System (TAS) – a new digital system designed to save you time, effort and money. We know, that as businesses working with vehicle approvals, you want to save time …
Over the last few months, we’ve sent out information on some of the changes coming into the heavy vehicle testing process.
We’re transforming the way we conduct vehicle approval services, introducing Vehicle Examination Facilities for Individual Vehicle Approval and Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval...
Over the next year, we will be using a new approach to improve compliance around light goods vehicles (LGVs) and their trailers. This means we’ll heavily concentrate on particular higher-risk sectors – working with them and focusing our roadside enforcement …
Finding a reliable workshop where you have confidence in what you’re buying, just got easier with the launch of the industry’s Maintenance Provision Rating Scheme (MPRS).
Load security is incredibly important but is often overlooked. It’s a topic which may not seem exciting or interesting, but the consequences of neglecting it can be truly devastating. Back in December 2024, Driver Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) updated its …
I wanted to update you on some of the work we’re doing behind the scenes at DVSA in the heavy vehicle testing and approvals world. This year has seen us invest in upgrading our systems, modernising our services and providing a more efficient service for our customers up and down the country.
As part of DVSA’s vision to develop better partnerships with industry, we were really pleased to agree to set up some job shadowing opportunities with the Road Haulage Association (RHA) when they first approached us. RHA wanted the shadowing to …
As part of DVSA’s routine work we collect data – for example from the annual test or MOT. In line with wider government policy, we make as much of that data available publicly or to the customers who have a direct interest in it.
Gordon Thomson, DVSA's Head of Vehicle Testing, explains the work we’re doing to improve our digital services in the latest what we're working on blog post.