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Vehicle inspection portal user guide

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March 2014

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Contents

Portal home page 3VIRM home page 4Menus and navigation 5Standard VIRM page 6Viewing notes 7Viewing tables and figures 8Searching 9Feedback 11PDF conversion 12PRS manuals 13Amendments 14Add to your favourites or bookmarks 15Add a shortcut to the desktop 15


Portal home page

Feedback button

Most recent news items

VIRMs

Search the websiteMain navigation tabsNZTA links


VIRM home page

Each VIRM has its own start page similar to the In-service (WoF) page below.

Click on the button for the chapter you want to go to (eg General vehicles).

We recommend you add your main manuals to your favourites or bookmarks for easy future access and to be sure you are always able to check the latest news.

Chapters

Most recent news items

Feedback button

Breadcrumbs PDF iconPrint iconSearch the portal


Menus and navigation

• The main navigation tabs take you to the different parts of the portal.• The ‘breadcrumbs’ show you where you are in the website, and have a trail of links back to the home page.• In the left-hand side menu are the different chapters, sections and sub-sections that you will use to access the information you

require during a vehicle inspection.• You can also navigate to other parts of the manual through the side menu and the pop-out menu (to sub-section 10-3

Mudguards in the example below).

Navigate to other parts of the manual using the side menu.

Manual

Chapter

Section

Sub-section

Breadcrumbs

Main navigation tabs

Search the portal

Feedback button. Use for feedback about a page.


Standard VIRM page

For each vehicle component, the inspection requirement pages are, in the main, divided into three main tabs – Reasons for rejection, Tables and images, and Summary of legislation. The Reasons for rejection and Summary of legislation tabs are then broken up into ‘mandatory equipment’, ‘permitted equipment’, ‘condition’, ‘performance’ and ‘modifications’ (and ‘repairs’ for heavy vehicles on a CoF).

The Reasons for rejection tab specifies the vehicle defects that must result in the vehicle being rejected for a WoF or CoF. The condition and performance reasons for rejection apply to mandatory, permitted, and modified equipment, unless otherwise stated. NZTA has imposed these requirements in accordance with Land Transport Rule: Vehicle Standards Compliance 2002, section 2.3(1).

Notes are found under the reasons for rejection. Please see ‘Viewing notes’ for information on the different ways to view notes.

The Summary of legislation tab summarises the legislation that is relevant to in-service inspection and certification.

The Tables and images tab holds that content referred to in the reasons for rejection and summary of legislation. Please see ‘Viewing tables and figures‘ information on the different ways to view tables and figures.

Contains reasons for rejection and notes

Contains tables and figures

Contains summary of legislation


Viewing notes

• Click on the note and it will take you to the position on the page where the note is located (you need to go to the note if there is a link in the note you want to click).

• Notes are located below the reasons for rejection.

• Hover the pointer over the word ‘Note 1’, ‘Note 2’ etc and the particular note will pop-up.

• Move the pointer away and it will disappear.


Viewing tables and figures

Click on the text for the figure or the table and the figure or table will pop-up• Click the ‘x’ in the corner to close

Tables and figures can also be viewed under the ‘Tables and images’ tab


Searching

Enter your search term (in this example ‘VLT’) into the search box found on the top right of every page.

Search results are shown from across all the manuals, but can be filtered further (see below).

The section the result is in.

The exact web address of the search result.

The manual the result is in.

You can filter you search results to the manual you use by clicking on the manual in the left hand box.

Look at the circled area in the web address for your vehicle type.


Once you have gone to the web page you want, you can highlight the search term by pressing Ctrl + F.• Enter the search term in the box (circled), and

examples will be highlighted on the page.

Searching (continued)


Feedback

If you have any comments or suggestions for our online manuals and the agent portal website, please use the Send us your feedback button and take a moment to fill in the feedback form.• Note that the feedback button is located in one of two locations depending on the area of the website you are in.

Feedback button locations

• If you fill in your email address you will receive a confirmation email.• The NZTA will receive an email that includes the url (web address) of the page you were on when you clicked

the feedback button – that way we know exactly what section and VIRM you are referring to.

Joe Bloggs [email protected]

This website is amazing …


PDF conversion

You can create PDFs of whole manuals or specific sections and sub-sections by clicking on the PDF icon in the top right of the page (shown below). • It is recommended that you limit printing and PDF conversion to small sections for temporary use.

Note: Creating a larger PDFs (eg whole WoF manual or whole General vehicles section) can take a minute or two for the PDF generator to make the PDF not including download time.

• The NZTA does not guarantee accuracy beyond the day of printing (due to amendments etc). .

PDF validity date notificationSave to hard drive

PDF icon


PRS manuals

Select your PRS manual just like you would select your VIRM by clicking on the relevant button.• The PRS master records are editable PDFs.


The list of changes page details additions, deletions and other amendments that have been put in place – a link to the amended page is also supplied.

Amendments

To access information on an amendment click on the button for your manual and you will be taken to a page with a table listing the amendments and their details, along with a link to a list of changes.


Changes and additions are highlighted in yellow.

Any pages that have been amended will have a notification at the bottom of the page, including a link to the list of changes.

Amendments (continued)


Add to your favourites or bookmarks

You can add these manuals to your favourites or bookmarks for easy future access.

We recommend that you add favourites/bookmark the manuals you most commonly use.

To add a page to your favourites or bookmarks press Ctrl + D (this works with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome) or use the drop down menu as shown in the figures below.

Internet explorer

Firefox

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Add a shortcut to the desktop

You can also add a shortcut to your desktop for quick access The shortcut icon will appear on your desktop. Just double-click the icon and the webpage will open (WoF only VIRM in this example).

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