Wednesday, 26 August 2009

Independent garages fear legislative burden - say RMIF

The Retail Motor Industry Federation today published the findings of a recent member survey, with some interesting reading for the Motor Codes team.

By far the biggest concern of their members is reported to be the 'burden of legislation and compliance is diverting attention from their business' - 81.5% making the claim. Not totally surprising when considering all the legislation a business has to comply with these days.

The interesting point here being that the independent sector are being a little slow to sign up to the Motor Industry Code of Practice for Service and Repair, an initiative designed specifically to stop government introducing yet more legislation for garage operators.

The message here is clear. Subscribe to this Code to avoid more burdensome, costly and intrusive legislation making you change the way you operate your business and further reduce the amount of time you spend on running your business by increasing the amount of time you have to spend on compliance.

'Won't that Code bring me more time spent on compliance' - is the question to answer next. The answer is, no - not if you are what we already know the vast majority of garage operators are, responsible, customer focused and transparent.

The bottom line is, if you are a responsible business operator, you will not be overly burdened by subscribing to the Code. But don't take my word for it, 4,000 garages that were the first to subscribe this time last year have renewed within the month of August.

They like it, and so will you - once you sign up at www.motorindustrycodes.co.uk

See the full RMIF press release here http://tinyurl.com/mx7zj9

All the best
Chris

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