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Tecalemit Garage Equipment, the UK’s largest supplier of vehicle servicing and MOT testing equipment, has won the contract to be sole supplier of test instruments to the Vehicle & Operator Services Agency (VOSA). The precision measuring instruments will be used to carry out testing for Independent Vehicle Approval (IVA).
The new contract requires all 95 items of equipment contained within the Tecalemit IVA test program to be easily assembled and ready for use in less than five minutes. The initial contract, worth over £150,000, requires Tecalemit to design, manufacture and supply a complete set of equipment to each of VOSA’s five main testing stations based in Derby, Kent, Liverpool, Glasgow and Bristol. In addition to the original contract further orders and inquiries have already been received from Northern Ireland and Cyprus.
“Having supplied the emissions testing equipment for VOSA’s GVTS stations, we’re delighted that they have chosen Tecalemit once again to provide them with the IVA equipment for their test stations,” said Philip Cledwyn, Sales Director at Tecalemit.
New legislation, effective from April 1st 2009, means that commercial vehicle manufacturers will now have to get approval on all types of vehicle, vehicle systems and separate components. Manufacturers producing specialist vehicles or vehicles in limited numbers, including trucks, buses and coaches, will now be required to take their vehicles to one of the main VOSA stations for IVA testing. The IVA test is a pre-registration inspection for vehicles that have not been type approved to British or European standards. The main purpose of the test is to make sure that a vehicle has been designed and built to prescribed safety standards before it can be registered, or sold for use on public roads. Once the vehicle has gained its IVA certificate it is then approved for sale and registration in the UK.
The measuring instruments from Tecalemit will be used by VOSA operators to check items such as number plates, wheel arches, widths of gangways on buses and coaches, etc, in order to comply with regulations laid down in the new IVA test. The test, which is a thorough, comprehensive inspection will include safety checks such as the compliance of any protrusions around the vehicle, and positioning of head rests and seat belts etc, to provide maximum comfort and protection for passengers.