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Whitehall laptop ban hits driving agency performance

News The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) saw its "enforcement performance" fall away by 20 per cent after the ban was introduced in January. Vosa is the government agency that provides a range of licensing, testing and enforcement services...

Tags: government, data loss, full disclosure

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[04 Apr 2008]

Overweight truckers stopped by tech checks

News And in a recent trial by the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) 442 overweight vehicles were spotted which together would do the same road damage as 18.7 million average family cars. Vosa is using the Viper service to spot and stop...

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[25 Aug 2006]

Multimillion pound MOT computer system breaks down

News Siemens Business Services (SBS) built the system for the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) at a total cost, over 10 years, of £230m. Vosa confirmed on Thursday that the computerised MOT system had been disrupted.

Tags: mot, vosa

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[28 Apr 2006]

Delayed national MOT database finally completed

News The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) awarded the 10-year £230m private finance initiative (PFI) contract to Siemens Business Services (SBS) back in 2000 with the aim of rolling out the system to garages from May 2002 but faults...

Tags: mot, vosa, dvla

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[07 Apr 2006]

Photos: MOT database targets illegal cars

Photo The 10-year £230m private finance initiative (PFI) contract was awarded by the Vehicle & Operator Services Agency (Vosa) to Siemens Business Services (SBS) in 2000. Vosa began linking garages to the central database last April and has now completed...

Tags: mot, vosa, dvla

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[07 Apr 2006]

Truckers' smartcards off to a slow start

News Drivers, the companies they work for, and agencies such as the police and Vosa will all have the smartcards to allow them to either use or gain access to the data in the device. For more than two decades, truckers have been using tachographs to...

Tags: smartcards, smart cards

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[30 Mar 2006]

MOT computerisation PFI project delayed again

News The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) awarded the 10-year £230m private finance initiative (PFI) computerisation contract to Siemens Business Services back in 2000. Cost overruns have also dogged development of the system and Vosa will...

Tags: pfi, mot

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[22 Jun 2005]

Police seize drugs and stolen goods using licence plate readers

News Earlier this week the government agency the Vehicle Operator and Services Agency (VOSA) revealed its plans to use ANPR technology to tackle road safety by monitoring all 24 million privately owned vehicles in the UK for MOT and tax-dodging.

Tags: mot, recognition, ainsworth, number plate

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[29 May 2003]

Number plate recognition system to tackle MOT-dodgers

News The £1m system will be operated by the newly created Vehicle Operator and Services Agency (VOSA), formed last month out of the Vehicle Inspectorate and the Traffic Area Network Division of the Department for Transport.

Tags: licence plates, anpr, dvla, vosa

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[27 May 2003]