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Guides for lorry, van and trailer operators. Every rule traced back to its source.
Plain write-ups of the DVSA and GOV.UK rules a haulier or own-account goods operator is measured against, from the driver’s walkaround to the examiner’s visit. Each rule links to the page it comes from, and each guide says when it was last checked.
Checks, inspections and intervals
What happens to a lorry or trailer between one inspection and the next, and what the paperwork has to show.
12 min read
DVSA’s 27 items for lorry drivers, from air build-up to the coupling and the load, and what goes on the defect report.
Read the guide
11 min read
Inspection sheets, laden brake tests, EBPMS and the ISO lead, and the customer trailers you pull on traction-only work.
Read the guide
12 min read
Setting PMI intervals from DVSA’s table and your licence undertakings, ISO weeks, and what an examiner counts as late.
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The examiner’s visit
How DVSA marks a goods operator’s maintenance system, and how to read your own records first.
10 min read
Trailers counted as vehicles, load security in section 9, prohibitions on third-party trailers and the OCRS points.
Read the guide
One page
The records an examiner reads, and what HGVault looks for in yours every night.
See the list
Look round a sample haulage fleet.
Severn Vale Haulage is a made-up haulier set up in HGVault, its lorries and trailers open read-only for anyone to look round. A guided tour takes you through each part, and you can register your interest whenever you are ready.