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Have you heard the latest on insurance!

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Bob696:
MY OWN IDEA BUT....  why not scrap the tax disc and replace it with an MOT disc and put all the road tax on petrol/fuel    

unused / seldom used vehicles wouldn't pay any excess tax, and driivers of heavily used vehicles would pay more....


combine it with a tax on fuel imported into the country (including  hgv's from the continent) and surely this would be a lot more 'just'

Karen696

karloss:

--- Quote from: "Bob696" ---MY OWN IDEA BUT....  why not scrap the tax disc and replace it with an MOT disc and put all the road tax on petrol/fuel    

--- End quote ---


Y'see, I think that would be a brill idea *if* I thought for a nano second that I could trust the government to behave sensibly about it. But something tells me they would see that as another great oportunity to shaft us all rotten. :cry:

drum:
I agree with karen, accept I think the tax disk show a valid insurance certificate (yes I know ways round it too), so displaying a valid tax disc indicates that the vehicle is both road worthy and insured. I think that it should be a few quid though just to cover admin, not the ridicioulous amounts we pay now.

Wanderer:
A £60 fine for having no insurance.............

That'd be cheaper than having insurance in the first place.

Yet another stupid bit of legislation.

If you've got a vehicle and get caught driving it on the road illegally impound the vehicle and releive the individual of its possession and then either sell it on giving the proceeds to a fund to pay out for victims of uninsured drivers or scrap the vehicle..

the loon:
Looking at the uninsured fine looks like a good idear.
The fine would need to be implimented if the vechicle was taken on the road as has been mentioned as in cases such as BTM says "what about the chasis I have sat on my drive"(or words to that effect) or other cases wher a vechicle is being used as a spares/repaire project

The only point I can think that again as with all car fines etc is tracing the owners to fine them.
Theres far to many chavers with nova's etc who dont register there details when they buy a car,either that or a few will club together get a cheep fast car from the small add's not register the details etc and drive like nutters posing a danger to others and themselves.

Its all very well catching these vechicles but in cases like this how could the courts impliment a fine unless they catch the driver behind the wheel.

Also who will foot the bill to put in the camera system it sounds like the police will use to enforce this law if it comes to book?

Or what about trial vechicles? I've heard of a case where a 90 was being trailored to a display but had old style black number plates on (not legal for that vechicle in this case)but police still pulled the driver over and cautioned him about the plates. This was a display vechicle with no tax etc - at the time dont even think had an engine in as was being restored
The point here is if you are taing a trial vechicle to an event or any other non-road use vechicle (again say is a rolling chasis or spraes vechicle) will you still need to produce a valid insurance document if requested?

At the end of the day it is a good idear to tighten up on the uninsured but I still think it needs a lot of thought as to how this can be done.

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