I just read a letter sent to Car Mechanics magazine (Oct. page 41). It was sent by an MOT tester who went on a refresher course run by VOSA. One of the things he wrote about was that it seems as ...
VOSA has warned it will come down hard on van operators not complying with regulations in a bid to improve standards within the industry. The organisation, which has traditionally focused on heavy ...
Project aims to cut fraud and take dangerous cars off the road The MOT computerisation project, which aims to take a million illegal and dangerous cars off the road, has finally been rolled out to all ...
The Vehicle Operator and Services Agency (Vosa) should improve its communication with users of its national electronic MoT system to ensure minimum upset when the network goes down, says the Retail ...
A multi-million pound IT system that computerised the UK's MOT testing programme suffered technical problems this week.The cause of the incident isn't yet known, but it left some garage owners ...
A VOSA spokesperson said: MoT testers must be experienced mechanics and must hold a relevant qualification. Parts of the MoT test do have to be subjective and therefore rely upon testers to exercise ...
Repeated computer crashes have thrown the MoT system into disarray, making it impossible for some drivers to tax their cars. The glitches have left many of the country's 19,500 testing stations unable ...
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An analysis of 24.5 million MoT records obtained by consumer motoring champion, honestjohn.co.uk, has revealed that one in five cars registered in 2008 failed their first MoT, with testers most likely ...
Research carried out by What Car? magazine shows that the results of an MoT roadworthiness check can vary wildly between test centres. The results raise concerns about the proposal to make MoT tests ...