On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:34:32 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
 wrote:


>
>It achieves an income and registers cars once a year. 

The MOT test could be used to achieve the same thing, and remove a level
of burocracy.

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In article ,
   Chris Bolus  wrote:
> >It achieves an income and registers cars once a year. 

> The MOT test could be used to achieve the same thing, and remove a level
> of burocracy.

Hmm. It's rather too easy to get a fiddled MOT. Policing that well would
be very expensive if not impossible.

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"Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote in message 
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> In article ,
>   Chris Bolus  wrote:
>> >It achieves an income and registers cars once a year.
>
>> The MOT test could be used to achieve the same thing, and remove a 
>> level
>> of burocracy.
>
> Hmm. It's rather too easy to get a fiddled MOT. Policing that well 
> would
> be very expensive if not impossible.
>

That might have been so in the past but know it means hacking the VOSA 
computer system! One might be able to obtain a forged MOT but that 
really doesn't do much once the VOSA MOT database is crossed referred 
to the SORN and insurance databases...