Crews working on Napier’s new Commercial Vehicle Safety Centre (CVSC) are getting ready to install the 3rd set of in-road scales.

The Napier CVSC is situated at the corner of Prebensen Drive and Hawke’s Bay Expressway.

CVSCs monitor heavy vehicles across the country alongside in-road technology that operates 24/7 which provides data on operator and vehicle behaviour such as vehicle weight, permit compliance, and indicators of driver fatigue. CVSCs are operated by NZ Police and they play a pivotal role in promoting road safety and ensuring regulatory compliance across the transport network.

As part of the project, sets of in-road scales (weigh-in-motion plates), in combination with an automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera, are being installed at various locations on the approach to the CVSC – including on the expressway at Westshore; SH50 on the Ahuriri truck bypass; SH51 Georges Drive at Marewa and the expressway at Greenmeadows.

Weigh-in-motion plates have already been installed on SH51 Georges Drive and on SH50 and now crews will install them on SH2, just north of the airport, in the southbound lane.

There will be minimal traffic impact during the work, as southbound traffic will be directed onto the road shoulder.

Traffic management and a temporary reduced speed will be in place – please drive to the conditions.

Work will begin on Tuesday (13 January) and will continue for just over a week until 22 January, under a mixture of day and overnight work.

How the CVSC works

Once at the CVSC, the vehicle will drive over a weigh bridge and undergo compliance checks, such as checking road user charges or logbooks, or completing a vehicle safety inspection.

The Napier CVSC is one of 12, including a recently opened centre at Ōhakea in Manawatū.

Using data from the in-road technology and centre, NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) will be able to focus education and compliance work toward operators who aren’t compliant on our roads, making sure they’re paying their fair share of road maintenance costs, while keeping compliant operators moving and our roads safer for all users.

The CVSC programme(external link)