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James McDowall: Motor Trade Association Head of Advocacy on the Government extending the Warrant of Fitness period · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Motor Transport Association worried about car crashes from new WAFT
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  Speaker 1: rules from November. Most cars are going to need checks
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  Speaker 1: less often, which is good if you want to save
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  Speaker 1: some money. So four to fourteen year old vehicles every
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  Speaker 1: two years. If your cars more than fourteen years old,
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  Speaker 1: you'll go from six monthly to annual. James McDowell was
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  Speaker 1: with the MTA joins US this morning. Hey James, yeah, good,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. So what is the which part of this
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  Speaker 1: is the most egregious one you're worried about.
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  Speaker 2: I guess there's a few things and these changes that
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  Speaker 2: are concerning from our perspective, and so at NTA, our
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  Speaker 2: membership does about eighty percent of the inspections in New Zealand,
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  Speaker 2: and so we get to see the I guess you
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  Speaker 2: could say, the condition of cars when they're brought in.
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  Speaker 2: We look at the failure rates in particularly because a
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  Speaker 2: wolf is a snapshot in time, you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: vehicles that are quite marginal that will still get a wolf.
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  Speaker 2: Might a tie that are say just above the threshold
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  Speaker 2: or breaks that are just above the threshold, and then
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  Speaker 2: we're letting them off for another you know, letting them
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  Speaker 2: go for another two years, and if if the owner
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  Speaker 2: of that vehicle is not paying close attention to these things,
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  Speaker 2: that's when you get problems that simply just get worse
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  Speaker 2: to a point where it's very unsafe, but also will
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  Speaker 2: cost them the long run. And I think that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you say, what's the most egregious that the government
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  Speaker 2: saying this will save anywhere between two and four billion
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  Speaker 2: dollars over thirty years promotorists, Well, first of all, that's
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  Speaker 2: a very large, wide disparate number. But secondly, when they
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  Speaker 2: talk about things like hold you know, repairs what need
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  Speaker 2: to be done, and you'll save money because of that,
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  Speaker 2: actual I mean, that's just nonsense. Obviously. You know, even
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  Speaker 2: if your what is delayed, you're still going to have
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  Speaker 2: to get things repaired eventually, and if the problem's worse,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to costume more. So. It's both a safety issue,
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  Speaker 2: well first and foremost a safety issue, but also just
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  Speaker 2: presented in such a such a bizarre way.
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  Speaker 1: James, what I think the dumbest thing about all of
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  Speaker 1: this is that we do it on time and not distance. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Surely distance would be the most accurate way of determining
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  Speaker 1: how Bogajikar.
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  Speaker 2: Is for sure, and there is potentially in the work program.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when we all move to universal world charges,
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  Speaker 2: which has been talked about it more recently with the
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  Speaker 2: current fuel crisis situation and taxation things, when we all
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  Speaker 2: move to digital ruck and things are attracted much more cleverly,
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  Speaker 2: then there's a good opportunity there to look at distance.
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  Speaker 2: We don't quite have the technology at the moment, but
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  Speaker 2: I think in the coming years that is something that
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  Speaker 2: we could look at.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, just wondering because you're i mean, you represent your
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  Speaker 1: members are going to lose money, aren't they. We're not
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  Speaker 1: getting our walls done as often. Is that why you're
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  Speaker 1: against it?
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  Speaker 2: If someone is just purely doing vehicle inspections, which is
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  Speaker 2: not that many of our membership obviously, like the vten
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  Speaker 2: dads and some of the others, that's that's their bread
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  Speaker 2: and butter. They will see less revenue, I'm sure, and
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  Speaker 2: have to pivot and think of ways to you know,
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  Speaker 2: but that's a commercial decision for them. But the repair
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  Speaker 2: sector for them, you know, quite honestly, they said, well,
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  Speaker 2: in the long runers will probably make us more money.
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  Speaker 2: So they're all comfortable with that because you know, at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day. You know, if someone's leaving
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  Speaker 2: their brake pads to wear out completely, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: destroy the rotors as well, and that's an even bigger repair.
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  Speaker 2: So they're not concerned about that in this rightist and
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  Speaker 2: when I did ask the question very directly members, they've said, no,
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  Speaker 2: this is about safety at what we see.
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  Speaker 1: Don't appreciate your time this morning. James McDowell mjhad of ADA.
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