Recently, I was allowed to board the catamaran to Sicily only after I had the length of my car measured. A few days later I went to book another trip for June, using the same car, same registration number – but... they had to measure my car again. My wife and I assured them that the car had not been extended in any way since our trip a few weeks ago.
My wife noted that the officers involved were trying to measure my car far away from the front and back.
She drew their attention to this and they moved to measure the car correctly. Could they not take note of the chassis number from the log book to ensure that the car is the same one on their records with the same length.
Or is this perhaps an indirect way of charging more for the trip?