The commercial vehicle safety centre in Auckland, off Stanley Street, is now operational, NZTA Waka Kotahi has confirmed.

This CVSC is one of 12 being built as part of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Programme (CVSP), which will monitor heavy vehicles across the country 24/7 and provide data on operator and truck behaviour such as heavy vehicle weight, load status, and driver fatigue.

NZTA commercial vehicle safety programme manager Sean Bridge said technology including in-road scales and cameras will be used to identify potentially unsafe vehicles, which will be directed into the centre to be inspected by police. While on site, police will carry out vehicle inspections and checks for vehicle weight, road user charge compliance, certificate of fitness, logbook accuracy, and driver impairment.

“This technology will allow us to check heavy vehicle non-compliance such as if vehicles have a certificate of fitness, if they’ve paid the right amount of road user charges, and if they’re over their weight allowance,’ said Bridge.

“The data we collect will give us really good insights into the behaviour of heavy vehicles on the network. Using this data, we’ll be able to target our education and compliance work toward safety issues in the industry, protect our roads from damage, and bring down road maintenance costs.”