Overview

• Official 2024 figures show first‑time pass rates of 71% for heavy trucks, 73% for buses and 74% for light vans, compared with 81% for all vehicles.
• About 75% of serious defects are concentrated in lighting and signalling (22.6%), pollutant emissions (21.5%), wheels/tyres/suspension (19.9%) and brakes (11.4%).
• Noncompliance remained high as 32.7% of vehicles that were due to undergo ITV in 2024 did not do so, a slight improvement from 33.2% in 2023 yet above 2017’s 26.6%.
• Delaying the inspection correlates with more serious faults, rising 28% with a delay of up to six months, 46% with six to twelve months and 62% beyond a year.
• AECA‑ITV reports transport vehicles accumulate nearly three serious defects per failed vehicle, and authorities are stepping up awareness and enforcement as the fleet averages 15.1 years and trucks over 10 years without ITV show a 43% rise since 2019 in fatal‑crash involvement.