About the commercial vehicle safety centres

Commercial vehicle safety centres (CVSCs), once called Weigh Stations, are sites where officers can safely carry out thorough inspections, including vehicle weight and road user charges (RUC), logbook accuracy and driver impairment.

Existing CVSCs are being upgraded, and new sites added, to create 12 CVSCs on high volume routes throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. There will be 8 regular size and 4 larger ones.

• Regular CVSCs will have a weigh bridge, in-road technology, and a simple onsite office, with the capacity to be upgraded if required.
• Larger CVSCs will have a weigh bridge, in-road technology, an inspection shed, roller brake machine, inspection pit, and office block.   

The sites are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024. We’ll let you know about specific sites near the time work starts on them.

Northland

Marsden

Auckland

Albany

Stanley Street

Bombay

Waikato

Taupō

Bay of Plenty

Paengaroa

Upgrade completed in mid-2022.

Tauranga Port

Hawkes Bay

Napier

Manawatū

Ohakea

Construction underway late 2023

• Ohakea commercial vehicle safety centre (CVSC) project

Wellington

Mackays Crossing

Tenders requested, January 2023.

• Mackays Crossing CVSC information boards [PDF, 1.3 MB]
• Mackays Crossing CVSC FAQs [PDF, 454 KB]
• Mackays Crossing interchange traffic (all vehicles) volume maps [PDF, 951 KB]
• Mackays Crossing CVSC – stakeholder group workshop summary [PDF, 1.5 MB]
• Mackays Crossing CVSC – consultation summary report [PDF, 222 KB]
• Mackays Crossing CVSC – updated routes [PDF, 149 KB]
• Mackays Crossing CVSC – related documents

Canterbury

Glasnevin

Upgrade completed mid-2022.  

See video  https://youtu.be/jt1TlA2NFLU(external link)

Rakaia

Construction began in January, 2023

• Rakaia CVSC newsletter July 2023 [PDF, 895 KB]
• Rakaia CVSC information sheet [PDF, 2.1 MB]