The NHVR was established in 2013 to be the single, national regulator of heavy vehicles in Australia, and to apply and enforce the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL). All states and territories—with the exception of the Northern Territory and Western Australia—have adopted the HVNL as the single rule book for heavy vehicles.
Over the past few years—through the National Services Transition (NST) program—the NHVR has been working closely with states and territories to transition delivery of the majority of our frontline heavy vehicle regulatory services enabling a more streamlined approach to service delivery, compliance, and enforcement, and a greater degree of consistency in how heavy vehicles are regulated.
The NST program has successfully transitioned heavy vehicle regulatory services in the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales. Work is currently underway on the transition of Queensland. Queensland services are planned to be transitioned during the first half of 2024.
The NHVR’s aim is to have a consistent approach to compliance and enforcement from the roadside to interventions, have borderless operations and build the capability to deliver timely, national responses to critical compliance issues.
Recent changes
Transition of Queensland heavy vehicle services from TMR to NHVR
The NHVR on is on track to become Australia’s single national regulator, with heavy vehicle safety services set to transition from Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) on 20 April 2024.
On-road compliance, investigations, prosecutions and programmed heavy vehicle inspections will be some of the services currently provided by TMR to transfer across to the NHVR.
On transition, the Northern Region will be created and will join Central and Southern Regions in leading on-road operational service delivery.
Transition of NSW heavy vehicle services
On 1 August 2022, 310 staff, including 250+ Compliance Operations Inspectors transferred from the NSW Government to the NHVR, where they continue to provide heavy vehicle compliance monitoring and enforcement under the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL).
For more information, see NSW transition of heavy vehicle services.
This means that the future supply of any goods or services in relation to heavy vehicle services for NSW now needs to be procured from and invoiced to the NHVR. For more information, please see the NSW supplier transition letter (PDF, 288KB).