WHEN Ken Allard’s car vanished from outside the garage that was giving it an MOT, he thought it had been stolen.
The good news was that it hadn’t.
In fact, it was being safely stored by a company contracted by the DVLA, at its nearest site to Bournemouth.
The bad news was that the nearest site to Bournemouth was in Plymouth – 101 miles away.
And until Mr Allard found a way of getting to Plymouth to collect it, he was being charged £21 a day.
Mr Allard seems to have been in a Catch 22 situation when he took his Vauxhall Cavalier out of storage – unable to tax it without an MOT, and running the risk of confiscation if it was left outside the garage.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of that situation, it makes no sense for a company working for the government to be transporting cars 100 miles to be held to ransom.
Haven’t they seen the price of petrol?
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