If you run or manage commercial vehicles, you’ve probably dealt with the annual CVR test. But there’s another document worth paying close attention to - the CVRT Risk Rating Report. It doesn’t just tell you whether your vehicles passed or failed; it gives an overview of how well you’re staying on top of maintenance and safety.

If you’re a commercial vehicle operator in Ireland, it’s vital to ensure that your fleet is roadworthy. However, rather than simply being about ‘passing tests’, maintaining your vehicle is also about making it as safe, efficient and reliable as it can be.

If you’re managing a fleet of vehicles in Ireland, ensuring that each one undergoes commercial vehicle testing so it’s roadworthy and meets is good practice. However, it’s much more than that, as it’s also a legal requirement. That’s because in order to drive on Irish roads, they must undergo vehicle type approval. 

At Argent Equipment, we know that your vehicles are the backbone of your business, and ensuring they’re safe, compliant, and secure is a top priority. It’s one of the reasons why many companies across Dublin choose to trust us with their commercial vehicle testing needs.

While offering a broad range of commercial vehicle testing services to our customers across Dublin, we get asked a lot of questions. Through this blog, we try to provide some clarity on common subjects that people want to know more about, and today we look at Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN).

At Argent Equipment, we spend our days helping to ensure that commercial vehicle drivers in Ireland operate safely and legally. As well as offering many types of commercial vehicle testing, we also provide plating and labelling services.  

These services are every bit as important as everything else our experts do, as they’re essential in ensuring that vehicles operating in Ireland do so in compliance with all relevant safety standards and regulations.

At Argent Equipment, we spend our days helping to ensure that commercial vehicle drivers in Ireland operate safely and legally. As well as offering many types of commercial vehicle testing, we also provide plating and labelling services.  

These services are every bit as important as everything else our experts do, as they’re essential in ensuring that vehicles operating in Ireland do so in compliance with all relevant safety standards and regulations.

While offering a broad range of commercial vehicle testing services to our customers across Dublin, we get asked a lot of questions. Through this blog, we try to provide some clarity on common subjects that people want to know more about, and today we look at Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN).

If you own a vintage vehicle in Ireland, it’s important that you understand what your obligations are under Irish law. Standard cars need what’s known as a Certificate of Roadworthiness (CRW) so that they meet all the relevant standards and keep everyone on Ireland’s roads safe.

A Certificate of Roadworthiness (CRW) is a key document in Ireland that proves your vehicle has successfully passed commercial vehicle testing. But what happens if yours becomes lost or stolen? Well, that’s what we look into here, so you know what to do.

In addition to the wide-ranging commercial vehicle testing offered from our Dublin workshops, the Argent team also offers tachograph installation, tachograph calibrations and tachograph supply and fit services and it’s a topic we delve into further, as we talk about how to obtain a driver card and where you need to apply.

Tachographs are essential devices for monitoring driving times, breaks, and rest periods of professional drivers, ensuring adherence to road safety regulations. In Ireland, the following rules must be complied with.

When you look at the broad range of LCV and HCV testing services we offer at Argent Equipment, you’d be forgiven for thinking that they represent merely a functional and mandatory aspect of operating a commercial vehicle.

At Argent Equipment, we offer a wide range of commercial vehicle testing services from bus testing to truck & trailer testing. Also available from our Dublin workshops is ADR testing for vehicles that transport hazardous goods and that’s the focus of this article.

The Argent Equipment team offers a comprehensive array of commercial vehicle testing services from HCV CVRTs to ambulance testing. Everything we do is aimed at vehicle safety - which is a key priority for the European Union (EU) as they aim to reduce road accidents and enhance safety standards across all member states.

At Argent.ie, we offer a wide range of commercial vehicle testing services from our two Dublin workshops that help to keep the roads safer for everyone. As such, the roadworthiness certifications (RWCs) that exist in Ireland are critical for ensuring that all vehicles driven are fit for use on public roads.

At Argent Equipment, we offer a wide range of commercial vehicle testing services which includes the Accord Dangereux Routier test or ADR CVRT. 

This is mandatory for vehicles like fuel tankers and chemical transporters and it checks for roadworthiness, as well as things like hazardous goods labelling, tank integrity, fire extinguishers, emergency kits, and safety equipment compliance.

The ADR (Accord Dangereux Routier) certificate or ADR test, as it’s otherwise known, is an additional mandatory requirement for hazardous goods vehicles, such as those that transport fuel, explosives or dangerous chemicals. 

At Argent Equipment, we’re the trusted name in commercial vehicle testing in Dublin and we are committed to helping our customers in every we can. As well as offering everything from HCV testing to tachograph installation and calibration, we’re keen to educate our readers about the obligations commercial vehicle owners have in Ireland. It’s why we create blogs like these!

At Argent Equipment, we’re at the forefront of commercial vehicle testing in Ireland and we’re proud to be the city’s leading light in this area, as it contributes to making the country’s roads a safer place for all motorists. When we’re not providing Dubliners with the very best in HCV testing, LCV testing, tachograph calibration, seatbelt certificates and more, we’re creating blogs like this one to educate our readers about our industry.