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2 Sep 2021

In March 2021, the Department for Transport published the Heavy Vehicle Testing Review. You can read the Heavy Vehicle Testing Review report at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/heavy-vehicle-testing-review/heavy-vehicle-testing-review-final-report.

The report makes a number of recommendations about the heavy vehicle testing service.

In the first in a series of regular blog posts, Neil Barlow, Head of Vehicle Policy and Engineering at DVSA, explains more about the review and what has been achieved so far.

Read Neil's Moving On blog post ‘Heavy vehicle testing review – moving forward’ at the link below.

https://movingon.blog.gov.uk/2021/08/26/heavy-vehicle-testing-review-moving-forward/