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from "Dave Plowman (News)"  contains these words:

> > 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.

So you have said in the past but I can't see how any MOT tester would
risk his livelihood for the paltry profit he might make from a
fraudulent test certificate. He only needs to be caught out once and his
job has gone and for what? Adding some small value to a wreck so it can
be sold on to someone who is almost bound to complain to the authorities
if the wreck could not have been roadworthy at the time of the test.

-- 
Roger Chapman