Reply To: Tester accused of issuing 66 pass certificates without inspecting a vehicle

[Anthony Roe]

The Mot Sceme is basically a waste of time when you have idiots like the fast fit centres advertising mots for £20 online how can you compete with that then then slap the customers arse for work that is not needed i see it every day of the week and we all get tared with the same brush , how can a labourer on a building site earm more than a fully trained technician, how much extra costs have been put on garages in the last two years , paper, printers , ink more things on the car to check the list goes on and on yet no pay rise on the mot sheme so while technicians are earning crap wages the tempation will be there because after all money is the reason they are tempted, it will never happen in my garage as we qc regulerly plus we moniter what is being tested its a family run business 6 staff and we struggle to pay our overheads and there will be plenty of people that now what i am talking about ,somebody needs to look at our rising costs and give us the payrise we need and stop people using the mot sheme as a loss leader and passing cars that shouldent pass and failing what should pass, more vosa staff are needed that turn up with no warning when they will be there, so they get caught and get rid of the rougues in the business simple as that, cuts are being made in the wrong areas anything with wheels is a killing machine, so why make cuts in the first place safe money and cut the fat cats pay at the top that do not even get their hands dirty, they do not even now what a hard days work is.