Updated Guide To Maintaining Roadworthiness 05/11/24

The DVSA have released notification that the Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness has now been updated.

A brief overview of what’s been updated is as follows:

• Updates include: – added HTML version of the guide – added advice on outsourcing maintenance work to section
• ‘5. Safety inspections and repair facilities’ – added guidance on using a decelerometer to section
• 3 Braking performance assessment’ – added new section
• ‘5.3a Braking performance assessment from April 2025’. – added more guidance on how to use EBPMS to section
• ‘5.4 electronic braking performance monitoring system (EBPMS)’ – update to section
• ‘6.2 What happens at the end of the test’ to show that test certificates are no longer printed out when a vehicle passes a test. – added example risk assessment to ‘Annex 7 performance risk assessment’

We recommend have a read and getting yourselves up to speed as there are some changes that will affect your operation – especially around brake testing.

if you need any advice please don’t hesitate to contact our helpful team, who will only be to happy to help.

if you would like to receive some training on the GTMRW we have a short course that is proving very popular which can be delivered face to face or online to educate your team on the Guide and what is involved for your business.