Sample Issue The PDF at the foot this page shows partial pages of MOT Testing Magazine. MOT Testing 82 – August 2014 More MOT rules from the EC – EC-driven MOT changes keep coming – But to what purpose? Road safety? – marginally …the environment? – ineffectively …to satisfy big business’s lobbying for stand-alone Testing? We wonder… Testing Times – …
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Since the Driving Standards Agency, the DSA, has now merged with the Vehicle Operator and Services Agency (VOSA), effective from April 2014, a name change was inevitable. The combined agency is to be called the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency or DVSA (don’t you love these acronyms!). Whilst the DfT issued a consultation earlier in the year asking people…
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As Testers know, Special Notice 3 0 2013 took effect on 26th June this year. It mandated a new way of measuring and recording brake imbalance by using either ‘lock-up’ or ‘slippage’ readings. There is, however, a problem. In practice the new method of inspection means that what’s measured is as much the level of traction between the tyre and…
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Last summer the EU Commission, just a year after their last load of MOT revisions issued a proposed new ‘Regulation’ about MOT Testing. Within their proposals were some good ideas – getting cars off the roads with dangerous defects, for example. However an idea rumoured to stem from Germany, that a car should fail the MOT if it wasn’t exactly…
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What is an MOT Test? The MOT is a regular examination of the condition of cars and light commercial vehicles in mainland Britain. It is required annually on all vehicles over three years old with one or two very minor exceptions – small ‘breakdown’ trucks is one example. History – and why it’s called the ‘MOT’ Following the second world…
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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 Setting standards for MOT Testing and…
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