Gerard Bregman closes his garage in Baflo, because he can’t find a new mechanic anywhere. ‘Quite emotional after all these years’

You have to look for car mechanics with a light in the province of Groningen, Bregman knows. “I would have liked to have continued for a few more years. But that is not possible without a mechanic. And they simply cannot be found in Groningen. At first I was firmly convinced that I would find someone. But advertisements and calls to employment agencies have yielded nothing. So I decided to close the workshop, all the more so because I don’t have a successor.”

ttn-45