Commercial Brake Testers

Ask ten transport managers what the DVSA requires on laden brake testing and you will get ten answers, most of them close but often not quite right. The requirement gets summarised, the summary gets repeated, and a year later the industry is confidently quoting...

Most commercial brake tester purchases go wrong before the equipment arrives. Not because the buyer chose the wrong brand, but because they asked the wrong questions at the quotation stage, or did not ask at all. The headline purchase price and the DVSA approval...

Most ATF lane projects start with a hardware price. A number lands in a budget spreadsheet, a business case gets built around it, and the project moves forward. Then the civils quote arrives, and then the questions start. Why are installation, training and...

A brake tester measures how effectively each wheel's brakes slow a vehicle, and produces a documented pass or fail against a required standard. For a commercial vehicle, that usually means driving onto a set of rollers that spin the wheels while the brakes are...

The short answer depends on three things: whether you own your premises, how much laden brake performance data your fleet needs to produce at every safety inspection, and whether your daily test volume justifies a permanent installation. If all three point toward a...

The short answer is roughly 18 vehicles. If you manage a fleet of 18 or more commercial vehicles and currently send them to an external lane for six-weekly safety checks, the accumulated cost of outsourcing almost always exceeds the cost of owning a brake tester with...

Walk into most commercial vehicle workshops and ask about their maintenance routine, and you will usually hear the same thing: "we do our brake tests." On paper that is true. The logs show regular intervals and the vehicle files are full of printed result sheets. The...

If you’re researching the cost of a commercial vehicle brake tester in the UK, you’re not alone. Fleet operators, workshop managers and ATF planners are all trying to budget accurately for brake testing equipment, often while navigating some of the toughest commercial...

Most transport operators would never knowingly send a vehicle onto the road with questionable brakes. Yet across the UK, many workshops are still relying on brake testing infrastructure that has gone months, or in some cases years, without proper calibration. Often...

Everquip Garage Equipment Limited, the UK’s foremost prefabricated inspection pit manufacturer, in partnership with Vamag S.R.L are pleased to announce they have received DVSA approval for the new DVSA software for ATF & PSV brake testers. Stuart Everard, Managing...