Went to DVSA meeting and was told the following
If you get a pull that ends up with a prohibition, you now only get ONE hour to get help to the truck and work started before they “clamp” (wire cable through the wheel) the truck, £80.00 release fee
Ah Well
That has got to be a money raising exercise. They know that the on-site response time with a guesstimate of required parts on hand is going to be longer than that. While DAF Aid advertise a response time of 44 minutes that is an average figure. Locally from Cobbs Wood Ashford to the Brenley Corner VOSA site at Boughton under Blean on the A2 is going to be a challenge if one allows 10 - 15 minutes to load parts, which probably won’t be the same ones carried on the van for breakdowns.
If you’re an owner driver it would be worth carrying tools so you could get stuck and and say ‘well work’s started’.
Own Account Driver:
If you’re an owner driver it would be worth carrying tools so you could get stuck and and say ‘well work’s started’.
Yes, I carry tools and that’s what I’d do. I imagine that if DVSA found anything more than a minor problem that I would have to call for help and that it would take a lot longer than an hour to arrive but then I have always found in roadside inspections that a lot of the outcome depends on how well you do in the initial “attitude test”. 
There are signs in all Dvsa checkpoints that say no repairs to be carried out on their sites.
toby1234abc:
There are signs in all Dvsa checkpoints that say no repairs to be carried out on their sites.
Suppose it depends what it is. They’ve let me change a headlight bulb before.
I’m a driver not a fitter.
As long as it’s safe to continue I don’t see a problem.
If it’s a bulb blown tie headlight then DVLA should be campaigning to have ALL vehicles designed that all lights can have bulbs changed without any tools, the rear lights on a older Astra have thumb screws to access the bulbs .