Opinion: The DVSA should come down hard on inappropriate manual advisories

[Mike Ruff, GW editor]

You won’t have escaped recent reports and conversations about the MOT tester who’s under investigation for using foul language while entering a manual
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[Tony Vincent]

This is totally unacceptable behaviour . All this shows is a unprofessional approach to the job in hand, as a employer I would worry about the techs commitment to his work and does he realise the possible consequence’s to his employers reputation because of his inappropriate advisory’s !

[NIGEL]

How many times has this happened ?
I just keep seeing the same one over and over and over and over again !

It seems to only to be once by one fool ! ! !

Have they nothing better to do ?

[Dave]

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“Is it not time the government started looking more seriously at the types of characters they let into a professional trade?
What’s it got to do with the government who works in our trade ?
Don’t remember ever being scrutinised by the government when I entered the trade or anyone else I know !
The tester was an absolute idiot to commit something like to print and should be spoken to by DVSA and his employer !

[Graham Cox]

I am not saying this is acceptable but we have no context, this might have been on a friends mot and acceptable as banter at the time, we should not be so quick to judge based on the limited information we have

[Hooters]

Professionals within the MoT testing trade have been campaigning hard to retain ‘manual advisories’ whilst the DVSA looked for reasons to withdraw the facility.
Some testers are remote (in their role) from the vehicle presenter; their ‘advisories’ may never reach the end-user and that could be important for both parties, not to mention the A.E.
This guy needs to be made an example of!
I was in court recently (as an expert witness) where the Judge pointed out that “literacy appears not to be a prized skill within the motor trade”.
The odds are stacked against us!

[David]

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“Is it not time the government started looking more seriously at the types of characters they let into a professional trade?
What’s it got to do with the government who works in our trade ?

The MOT Scheme belongs to the government and is their scheme. Over time many changes are made to ensure that reasonably consistent standards are achieved. If an NT or AE is bringing the scheme into disrepute then action must be taken to maintain standards. If that means the removal of an individual that chooses to go off on tangents and do their own things, then removal is justified for the integrity of the scheme and customer relations. It does not matter what the customer looks like, what colour skin they have or whether the tester likes the look on their faces or not, but what does matter is that we maintain standards, be polite, honest and show professionalism to the customers at all times.

The true employer of labour is the customer, and without them you have no business income.

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