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New Zealand Police Commercial Vehicle Investigation Unit (CVIU)

Commercial Vehicle Investigation Unit

The Commercial Vehicle Investigation Unit is a nationally managed unit responsible for monitoring all areas of the commercial vehicle industry, including trucks, buses, taxis, couriers, mobile cranes, and mobile homes.

The primary activities of the CVIU are:

  • Certified pilot scheme
  • Driving hours and logbooks
  • Investigation of serious commercial vehicle crashes
  • Road user charges
  • Road and bridge weight limits
  • Vehicle fitness
  • Transport licensing
  • Vehicle and load dimensions
  • Passenger safety
  • Load security
  • Dangerous goods

The Unit has 88 Enforcement Officers and 4 Vehicle Safety Officers based around the country. The CVIU operates both mobile and weigh bridge stations. These are sited in:

  • Auckland (3)
  • Rotorua
  • Turangi
  • Ohakea
  • Plimmerton
  • Glasnevin (north of Amberley).

Unit officers annually inspect around 140,000 commercial vehicles. They weigh around 45 percent of these vehicles. Approximately 25,000 offences are reported annually.

CVIU maintains a very close working relationship with industry organisations, and a wide range of government agencies including Land Transport Safety Authority and Transit New Zealand.

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