If you’re operating a commercial HGV on Ireland’s roads, then you are obliged to ensure that it’s safe and roadworthy at all times. One such measure is the periodic vehicle inspection that checks a wide range of vehicle elements vital to a well-running heavy goods vehicle.

If you operate a business that has a mixed fleet of Large Goods Vehicles (LGVs) and Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs), you need to ensure that they’re well maintained and safe to be driven on Ireland’s roads. Part of your obligation in this regard is a yearly commercial vehicle testing (CVRT) that must be passed to continue driving legally. Carry on reading to find out more about it.

If you’re the owner of a jeep or a van in Ireland, then you’ll need to have a CVRT or Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness Test on an annual basis to ensure that it’s safe for use on the road. Regardless of whether you’re using it for business or for personal reasons, both vans and jeeps fall into the LCV category and as such, need a different test to the standard National Car Test (NCT).

At Argent Equipment Ltd, we offer the full range of commercial vehicle testing, so if you operate a truck and trailer or a heavy good vehicle fleet, we can help you stay legal on the road. We regularly create blogs just like this one to educate and inform our readers and in this one, we look at the need for a CVRT and not a NCT for motorhomes and campervans.

When driving on Ireland’s roads, both buses and ambulances need to be maintained and kept roadworthy in order to be legally driven. In order to achieve this, ambulance CVRT (Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness Testing) and bus CVRT needs to be carried out.

At Argent Equipment, we offer the full spectrum of testing services for all types of truck and other commercial vehicles. From our Dublin-based test centres, we are able to get you the certification you need in as little as an hour in some cases.

At Argent Equipment, we have been providing vehicle testing services to the Irish public for many years at our Dublin-based CVRT test centres and we create blogs like this one to help clarify why what we offer is important for anyone driving professionally in Ireland. Today we look at what an ADR test is and precisely what’s involved.

Generally speaking, the duration of an HCV CVRT is anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes and the assessor will evaluate the condition of components that are either accessible or visible. The test is still known to many as the Department of Environment (DoE) Test, but it essentially replaced it.

If you drive a light commercial vehicle that has a gross weight of less than 3,500kg, you need to have an annual LCV test carried out to ensure that it is safe and roadworthy.