The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency’s Remote Enforcement Office (REO) is a different method of following up VOSA’s encounters with your vehicles.

Instead of visiting the operator’s premises, VOSA will ask for information to be sent to them to be analysed remotely. This analysis will include information validity checks as well as straightforward analysis, such as checks against ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) data.

There will be an initial six month trial in the western traffic area. The REO process will only be applied to new encounters, it will not interfere with any ongoing encounters. VOSA says it will review the trial as it goes so timescales may be affected.

The REO trial will cover general follow up visits where there have been, for example, Most Serious Infringements, or MSIs, prohibitions for overloading, insecure loads, drivers’ hours and S-marked prohibitions.

VOSA says it believes the REO will free up its resources for more effective enforcement, and free up operator and transport managers’ time by allowing them to deal with VOSA’s requests in a more convenient timeframe.