DVSA MOT & Roadside Failures: Insights and Solutions

DVSA Statistics – Quarter 3 (2024 – 2025)

Every quarter the DVSA releases their statistics on vehicles failing MOT and roadside encounters.

Here’s Lloyd Morgan Groups take on those statistics and what you can do to avoid being one of them

Annual Test

HGV – MOT Fails

The top 3 failure items for HGV Vehicles presented at annual test are

1. Brake Systems
2. Condition of Tyres
3. Suspension

Making collectively almost 13% of all failures in this section for this quarter

HGV Trailer – MOT Fails

1. Brake System Components
2. Service Brake
3. Parking Brake

The top 3 fail items for trailers at annual test is brakes – this makes up almost 10 % of all trailer failures for this quarter

PSV – MOT Failures

The top 3 failure items for PSV Vehicles presented at annual test are

1. Interior of body
2. Brake System
3. Lamps

Making up collectively almost 7% of all failures for this section in this quarter

Roadside Encounters

HGV – Roadside Encounter

The top 3 failure items for HGV Vehicles encountered at roadside are

1. Condition of Tyres
2. Security of Body
3. Brake system

Making up 11% of the total encounter failures in this section at roadside

HGV Trailer – Roadside Encounters

The top 3 failure items for HGV Trailer encountered at roadside are

1. Condition of Tyres

2. Brake system Components

3. Spray Suppression / Wings / Wheel Arches

Making up almost 22% of all failures in this section

PSV – Roadside encounter

The top 3 failure items for PSV Vehicles encountered at roadside are

1. Condition Of Tyres
2. Door & Passenger Doors
3. Seat belts

Making up almost 10% of all failures in this section

In Summary What are these stats telling us?

Here’s some suggestions to help you focus on the issues listed above

Annual Test

• Complete a thorough inspection prior to leaving for MOT by competent inspectors
• Ensure you complete a brake test, and your team understand how to read the reports
• Ensure the people inspecting the vehicle have time to conduct a thorough inspection and they’re educated to a good standard to be able to identify defects
• Always check your defects against the current version of the DVSA tester’s manual
• Investigate your failures – this will shine a light on how your team potentially missed the issue – poor repairs, lack of thorough inspection, force majeure. This will help prevent your next failure
• If you use external repair agents – make sure your vehicles are being prepared for MOT thoroughly and not presented to establish a list of issue for repair and representation. All because you may use external repair agents you still need to monitor their performance to ensure they are giving you the best service possible and do not affect your reliability or

Roadside

The quality of driver walk round checks is clearly in question here as all the roadside top 3’s for all sections is potentially identifiable by the driver prior to using the vehicle.

Who are Lloyd Morgan Group?

Were one of the UK’s leading transport compliance solutions, we’ve been providing industry leading solutions since 2007 to both large and small operators. Did you know, our Vehicle inspection Teams on average were completing between 800 – 1200 vehicle checks per week throughout the UK. We’re not just about inspections though we provide a full 360-degree service for compliance. No membership fees, just pay as you go and remember were always here to help and advice where possible (that bit is free to all our customers)

How can Lloyd Morgan Group Help?

As one of the country’s leading transport compliance service providers we have a complement of services that are available to all operators to help them remain compliant and avoid these statistics.

• Driver Pre Use Training
• Gate Check Audits
• Vehicle Inspection Courses
• Vehicle Inspection Update Courses
• 3rd Party / Supplier audits on repair agents
• Compliance audits
• Fleet Inspections
• Inspection Monitoring
• Fleet management software
• Understanding brake roller reports courses
• 3^rd party accreditation such as IRTE Workshop Accreditation (MPRS)

We also offer bespoke services to suit your operations

Find out why were one of the most recommended transport compliance providers in the UK and used by some of the UK’s leading and largest transport operations.

Our knowledgeable and friendly team are here to help.