Mot
I was discussing MOT's with friends. Someone remarked that X, "a biker's biker", had "tightened up a lot", and was now "VERY strict".
He would no longer do MOT's over the 'phone! He insisted on ACTUALLY SEEING THE BIKE! This was delivered in a tone that The Daily Mail reserves for anything (i.e. everything) of which they don't approve. It was a good night.......
Is it a money making scheme? Of course it is. These people (VOSA) would be out of a job otherwise. They are part of the Health and Safety Industry. I have to get a Volvo estate car tested every year (for me, 12,000 miles). The service interval is every 50,000 miles.
Am I
deeply resentful? No, not deeply. It does, as stated, give another someone else the chance to check my work. I used to regard scrutineers at race meetings as "the enemy". I no longer do.
But.
Is it true that if your MOT is done within the week
after the tax is due, one MOT will do for two years, if you renew promply next year? Tell me it isn't so.
I really don't see why we should regard VOSA as anything other than a commercial organisation when they are quite happy to sell OUR data to wheel clampers operating MacDonald's car parks. How exactly does that improve road safety?
Quite agree, John. The MOT should be carried out as prescribed by the DOT. The Testing Station I use now follow the rules to the letter although it's necessary to point out some the unusual features of the Vincent motorcycle.
On one occasion he declared "These forks are seized" when he applied the front brake and expected the bike to nosedive. At my previous MOT centre the tester virtually walked round my bike, turned the lights on and off and said "OK,have you got last years ticket?" Now, that's not good enough and he could have had his licence withdrawn if a Ministry inspector had been witness to this