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.
See also:
- CVIU Service Delivery Charter 2005
- Standards Guide for Commercial Vehicle Enforcement in New Zealand updated August 2002
