As professionals in the automotive industry, you play a vital role in ensuring vehicle safety by following regulations laid out by the DVSA. This blog post provides valuable insights and strategies to enhance MOT testing procedures and internal business processes. By implementing these tips, you can increase efficiency, accuracy, customer[…]
As providers of the MOT scheme, we all know the importance of compliance. However, sometimes even innocent mistakes can result in a breach of compliance, leading to potential disciplinary action by the DVSA. Check out this list of eight common compliance errors which can easily be avoided by adding some[…]
Almost 700 MOT Testers have been disqualified from practice over the last two financial years, representing a massive increase of 49% from the previous two-year period (April 2018 to March 2020). These statistics illustrate a notable rise in DVSA actions over recent years that aren’t limited to action against Testers.[…]
We live in a high-tech society, and the MOT scheme is no exception. DVSA’s capacity for oversight and regulation is the best it’s been as monitoring becomes ever more technical. As a result, we have seen a steady and notable increase in DVSA disciplinaries and actions over the last five[…]
DVSA MOT Compliance Survey A recent report by What Car? revealed that the DVSA MOT Compliance Survey (2019-2020) found that one-in-seven (13.58%) vehicles that passed their MOT should have failed – equating to more than 2.9 million vehicles on UK roads. In total, the DVSA disagreed with the test outcomes[…]
How much are your MOT operations a key part of your aftersales landscape, and what if the DVSA took it away tomorrow? With VE’s back on the road after lockdown, armed with information which enables them to make targeted inspections, and their new powers of “immediate cessation” – it’s more[…]
