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Whitehead said he had ceased using a garage because it
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proved too expensive. For example, when it came to preparing for the MoT test the garage wanted the vehicle off the road for up to five days. However, he agreed that if he was going to continue to operate the company's maintenance, arrangements needed to be improved.
Whitehead admitted the vehicle did not always pass its annual test on first presentation.
The TC responded that the VI has a penalty points system for deciding which operators to target and those with a high failure rate for initial tests come under particular scrutiny.Any operator with more than one vehicle needed to keep a record of the rate.'The first time pass rate was important and should not be difficult to achieve. The standard at annual test was the minimum standard for a vehicle to be safe on the road. If an operator could not achiev on one day in the year then he was going put under the microscope because it was the vehicle would be in a worse conditi the road.
He warned Whitehead there were c a number of areas where he and his trar manager, his wife, had been getting it wror remedies must be put in place. •