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Just cars taken for a ride?
CAR TRANSPORTER firms are under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading which has begun to question the major manufacturers about their experiences.
OFT is said to be concerned that the big four transporter firms -Silcock and Collins, Cartransport Ltd, Toleman Group, and Dependable Deliveries — have a 60 per cent share of the market.
Leading car distributors and the four major manufacturer: have been asked for details oi their experiences with thE operators.
But OFT itself it maintaining a diplomatic silence. A spokeswoman toIC CM this week that she coulc neither confirm nor deny thai such an investigation wa: being undertaken as thi: would be prejudicial to it: impartiality.
She said it was not certair whether a report would bi issued as much depends upor what the investigators dis cover.