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Seems like we’ve heard it all before, it seems to me the biggest improvement the DVSA could make is increasing the MOT test price and making it a mandatory fixed price test. Unfortunately I think that takes an act of parliament so that isn’t gonna happen any time soon. I stopped testing and closed my workshop because my landlord (big multinational) wanted a 55% increase in rent. In the last 10 years my major costs Rent and Insurance doubled but hourly rates and test fees stayed pretty stagnant, accountancy charges up 40% legal costs up 47% I could go on. But no one in authority really gives a f***. the world is run by so called professionals with degrees in arse wiping who think it’s a wheeze to to indulge trades people but not listen and take notice of them. I have lost count of the number of colleagues complaining about the DVSA pricing strategy but has anything happened, will anything happen. It took at least 4 decades of complaint before authorities started to correlate poor maintenance with crashes, which having done the math they still haven’t done anything about it. Ms Loveday Ryder will continue in the legacy of change but the cost of those changes will come from garages testing vehicles until the burden becomes untenable.