HGV safety inspection fees jump from £55 to £70, bus and coach checks from £70 to £90, and trailer inspections from £40 to £50, all from Monday 6 July — the first rise in the ATF service fee since 2010, according to SMMT. That's fifteen years of frozen pricing catching up at once, across roughly 400 Authorised Testing Facility sites nationwide. Every heavy truck, trailer, bus and coach needs one of these annual inspections regardless, so the increase lands straight on SMR budgets with no way round it. Build it into next year's whole-life cost forecasts now rather than discovering it at the next MOT.
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