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The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) carries out roadside inspections of goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles to check that:

• the driver is following聽drivers鈥� hours rules
• the driver holds the correct licence, insurance and Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)
• their vehicle is carrying the correct load weights and type of load permitted
• their vehicle has no mechanical faults and is in a safe and roadworthy condition

DVSA聽publishes details of offences found on an annual basis.

About the data

The reports show:

• the operator鈥檚 name
• their operator鈥檚 licence number (some countries require operators to have more than one operator licence)
• the number of vehicles the operator had registered on their operator licence
• the number of prohibitions issued for mechanical defects
• the number of advisory inspection notices issued for mechanical defects
• the number of offences where a fine was issued for mechanical defects that聽DVSA听蹿辞耻苍诲
• the number of drivers鈥� hours offences聽DVSA听蹿辞耻苍诲
• the number of overloading offences聽DVSA听蹿辞耻苍诲
• the amount of the fines that had to be paid
• the number of other traffic offences聽DVSA听蹿辞耻苍诲

Other traffic offences include:

• failing to produce records
• falsification of records
• tachograph offences
• any offence where an 鈥榦ffence rectification notice鈥� (ORN) was issued by a聽DVSA听别虫补尘颈苍别谤
• any other offences not covered under drivers鈥� hours, overloading or mechanical offences

The data is sorted by country and then by operator name.

Data sources

These reports include defects and offences聽DVSA听蹿辞耻苍诲 from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024:

• during roadside checks
• during visits to operator sites

These reports do not include data from offences found by the police.

Factors which may affect the report

The following factors may affect the report:

• accurate entry of operator licence numbers by聽DVSA听别虫补尘颈苍别谤s - if these were entered incorrectly, the offence would be attributed to the wrong operator
• operator licence numbers - some countries only use numbers and do not include letters in their operator licence numbers, this means operators from different countries could have the same licence number, so it鈥檚 important to check the country of origin
• variations in spelling of operator names - the聽DVSA听别虫补尘颈苍别谤 has to manually type in the name of operators from outside Great Britain, this means there might be variations of the operator name
• operators successfully challenging an offence - if an offence is challenged by the operator and聽DVSA聽agrees with them, it might still show on the report
• data quality issues - some underlying data might change over time as聽DVSA聽finds incorrect data and fixes it

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