I think there has to be some common sense. It depends on how you are setup, what you are charging and how much work you are doing.
There's a big difference between doing 1 car a month to help someone out for a tenner or a pack of beers, to someone setup properly with trade insurance, public liability insurance and charging the same as other T4 guys.
I don't think it's anything to do with main source of income as some of the T4 guys have other jobs as well. A lot of the traders don't make much money from it but their fees help the club survive.
What we don't want, is for someone such as yourself to not offer services as he is paying more in traders fees than he is making helping people, thus the help to people in your area wouldn't be there because of the club rules.
All just my opinion of course, I've no idea how the rules are made/changed or why they were put in force in the first place.
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