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freevancheck.com exists because most UK buyers do not want to pay £20 to find out whether a car has tax. The free or low-cost summary here covers the questions that matter first, and only escalates to a paid report when the data behind it actually warrants one. Free UK van check. MOT, tax, plated weight and basic history for any commercial vehicle reg.
Data sourced live from DVLA, MIAFTR, PNC and the UK lender register at lookup time.
Typical lookup completes in under one second from the UK.
Built and supported in the UK as part of the consumer side of the network.
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Most freevancheck.com visitors also need cover that an annual private-car insurer won't write — short-term van use, fleet additions, post-impound release. The four panels below cover the realistic cases.
Fully comprehensive cover from one hour up to 28 days on any UK van you don't own — borrowed for a job, collected from auction or moved across the country. MID-registered within minutes.
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Commercial vehicles, particularly Sprinters, Transits and Vivaros from 2014 onwards, are stolen at higher rates than cars and recovered at lower rates. The PNC check returned by this report is the same data the police themselves rely on, but the buyer-side prevention measures — wheel locks, OBD-port protection, ghost immobilisers — matter more for vans than for cars.
Vans over 3,000kg unladen weight are tested under MOT Class 7 rather than Class 4. The check returns the correct test class history, including fail reasons specific to commercials such as plated-weight markings, side-guards and ground clearance, which a class 4 lookup would miss.
A clean check confirms that, at the moment of lookup, no UK insurer has filed a total-loss marker, no lender has registered an open agreement and no police force has reported the vehicle stolen. It does not confirm mechanical condition, repair quality, or work carried out in cash and never declared to an insurer. Treat the report as the legal and financial backstop to an in-person inspection, not a replacement for one.
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freevancheck.com now operates as part of Expert Car Check — the same van-friendly lookup, with the wider car, finance and insurance tooling layered alongside it. The data sources are unchanged: DVLA's vehicle record, DVSA's MOT history, MIAFTR for write-offs, the Police National Computer feed for theft markers and the UK lender register for outstanding finance. The team, the underwriting partners and the support contact are the same. What's changed is that the work that was previously spread across several smaller brands now sits in one place, which keeps response times tight and the underlying registers maintained against current DVLA schemas. Bookmarks and historic links to freevancheck.com continue to resolve here. If you were referred to freevancheck.com by a previous report, broker or print listing, this is the right page — there is no further redirect to chase.
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For vans used commercially above 3.5 tonnes, yes — an O-Licence is required and must be valid for the route and the operator base. The check flags whether the chassis is currently registered against an O-Licence.
Vans over 3,000kg unladen weight test under MOT Class 7 rather than Class 4. The fail criteria include plated-weight markings and side-guards that don't apply to passenger vehicles.
Almost. Vans frequently sit on commercial HP, finance lease or contract hire agreements rather than personal HP or PCP. The check searches both consumer and commercial registers so commercial agreements don't slip through.
Most diesel vans first registered from September 2016 onwards meet ULEZ. The report returns the recorded Euro classification and the daily charge that would apply in each active UK clean-air zone.
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One field. A typical lookup completes in under a second, using the same UK vehicle records relied on by trade buyers and insurers.