MoT testing —6 weeks' notice
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• Now that pre-registration of vehicles due for plating and testing at Ministry stations has been abandoned, the Goods Vehicle Centre at Swansea is asking operators for at least a month's—and preferably five or six weeks' —notice of a required test date.
Many operators have already been told by the Ministry of the new requirements, but inquiries addressed to CM, and questions at the seminars which this journal has sponsored in association with Business and Industrial Training Ltd., reveal that some operators are not aware that the system has been altered.
When the Goods Vehicle Centre first contacted operators last year to advise them of procedure for testing and plating, it asked that the pre-registration system outlined in paragraphs 14 and 15 of the Guide for Vehicle Operators should be followed. This required operators to send in Part II of the test application form, specifying the vehicles to be tested, well in advance of Part 1, which is the actual application for test.
But since then the build-up of applications has been such that the pre-registration ayetern has had to be dropped. (Brief reference to this was made in last week's issue of CM.)
The procedure now is that where operators have already submitted a Part II for pre-regis tration, Part I should be submitted at least three weeks, and preferably a month, before the due test date. In all cases, application forms should go to the Goods Vehicle Centre, Ministry of Transport, Welcombe House, The Strand, Swansea.
For all new test applications, the Ministry is asking that Parts 1 and II should be submitted together, as early as possible in the twomonth period for the submission of applications, and preferably as much as six weeks before the date on which the test is required.
At present, operators should be submitting forms in respect of vehicles first registered in any August between 1961 and 1967 inclusive; these have to be tested between July 1 and August 31, and cannot be used on the road without a testing certificate and a plating certificate after September 1 this year. In the case of Scottish-based vehicles the valid classes are those vehicles first registered in August between 1958 and 1967 inclusive.
Trailers for testing between July 1 and August 31 land thus for test application between June 1 and July 311 are those manufactured in 1965.
Both the Guide for Vehicle Operators and the application forms call for 14 days' notice of test; in view of the earlier applications now being asked for, this should be disregarded.