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DVSA reveals latest MOT developments – here’s what garages and testers need to know

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has published a new update outlining the work currently taking place to improve and modernise the MOT service. While there are no immediate changes to the way MOT tests are carried out, the latest Matters of Testing blog provides an important insight into the direction of travel forContinue reading “DVSA reveals latest MOT developments – here’s what garages and testers need to know”

MOT Workshop 44 – MOT Trade

The MOT Trade For the year to 15th March last year there were well over 21,600 Vehicle Testing Stations (VTSs), conducting, over just under 27 million ‘first presentation’ MOT inspections. That’s a lot of Testing Stations and a lot of Tests – so who does what? Are just a handful of VTSs doing most Tests?Continue reading “MOT Workshop 44 – MOT Trade”

MOT Workshop 44 – Appeal Tests

Appeal Tests… Many Testers and Authorised Examiners have, at some time or another, suffered the anxious experience of attending a VOSA ‘Appeal’ Test following a complaint from a motorist about the MOT outcome – pass or fail. There are too many uncertainties to ever contemplate an Appeal Test with an easy mind. There are, however,Continue reading “MOT Workshop 44 – Appeal Tests”

MOT Workshop 43 – ‘Service’ versus the ‘MOT’

A ‘service’ – not to be confused with an ‘MOT’ When is a ‘service’ not a ‘service’, and how much, if anything, inspected during a ‘service’ would be the same as an MOT? In a Transport Research Laboratory report assessing the road safety affects of reduced MOT frequency, the authors made the assumption that halfContinue reading “MOT Workshop 43 – ‘Service’ versus the ‘MOT’”

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) Information | VOSA

DVSA – Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency This article contains information about the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, previously known as VOSA. VOSA was renamed DVSA in April 2014. A guide to the government agency which supervises the MOT scheme DVSA supervises the MOT scheme by: Authorising MOT Testing Stations and approving MOT Testers SettingContinue reading “Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) Information | VOSA”