DVSA authorised testing facility
HGV and Trailer MOTs for Tewkesbury Operators
Nobody would choose a test lane on mileage alone, or every operator would simply use the nearest one and think no more about it. What actually costs money is the second journey — the one you make after a failure, to a workshop that is not where the test was. Tewkesbury is about twenty-five miles from us, motorway almost the whole way up the M5, and the case for making that run is that it should be the only journey you have to make.
Why Tewkesbury operators test with us
The distribution park operators around Junction 9 already spend their working lives on this stretch of the M5, so the road is not the obstacle. The obstacle is a day that splits in two. At a test-only facility a failure hands you a list and a problem: find someone with capacity, get the vehicle to them, then get it presented again. Here the examiner, the fitters and the parts are on one site and the retest happens where the test happened. If you want the visit to earn the mileage, put a safety inspection in front of the test so anything obvious is dealt with before the lane sees it, and tell us on the phone what else the vehicle needs while it is with us. Twenty-five miles is a fair distance. One visit that finishes the job is worth more than two that do not.
HGV MOT questions from Tewkesbury
What is the route from Tewkesbury?
Straight up the M5 and off at Junction 5 — about twenty-five miles, nearly all of it motorway, finishing at Aston Fields Industrial Estate, B60 3EX. For a vehicle that trunks this stretch anyway it is a familiar road rather than a detour.
Is it worth coming that far for a test?
Only if the visit does more than one thing, which is how we would rather you used us: a pre-test inspection, the test, and any rectification under one booking. A quick test on its own, with nothing attached to it, probably does not justify the run from Tewkesbury, and we would say so on the phone rather than let you find out.
Can you take a unit and more than one trailer in a single booking?
Yes. Trailers are tested in their own right and priced individually by axle count, and there is room in the yard to bring several in and drop them. Give us the full list when you ring 01527 870400 and we will block out the lane time properly instead of trying to squeeze it into one slot.
What if the vehicle cannot get home the same day?
We park and store commercial vehicles on this site, so a lorry or trailer waiting on a part does not have to be shoehorned into somebody else’s yard overnight. Ask when you book and we will tell you what space we have.