Run a vehicle approval test centre

How to run a vehicle approval test centre (sometimes called a vehicle examination facility or VEF), including how to prepare your centre for tests, how to book testing events with DVSA, and how to maintain your premises and equipment.

• 1. About vehicle approval test centres

  The vehicles that can be tested, types of tests, and the requirements for your site and testing area.

• 2. Site managers

  Who can be a site manager, what their responsibilities are, and how to tell DVSA if you want to change your site manager.

• 3. Booking testing events

  How to book, change and cancel testing events.

• 4. Payments and fees

  How application and testing event fees work, what DVSA pays you, and how to manage your pre-funded account.

• 5. Preparing for the test

  What you need to do before a DVSA examiner arrives, what to do during and after a testing event, and what to do if something goes wrong.

• 6. Monitoring and maintaining equipment

  The equipment you need, how often to check and calibrate it, and which evidence and documents DVSA can ask to see.

• 7. Monitoring and maintaining standards

  What your health and safety policy needs to cover, how often DVSA will inspect your site, and what happens if you fail an inspection.