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The fight against uninsured vehicles
Range Rover Blues:
Good point, because they won't refund the tax unless you cancel it more than a month before it's due for renewal.
Tommo:
Im really dreading this.
To be fair its the road tax system that causes all the hassle. Its just so outdated, why cant we do away with the disc and just have it as a computer database, where you can pay to put 5 days tax on it if you want. Its always been a scam selling it in only 6 months or 12. Or do away with it all together and pay it on fuel or whatever as has been suggested.
Ever since they introduced 'SORN' I have hated the DVLA. Its such a petty thing that does nothing but hassle honest folks. The problem is that most people don't see a problem, as they have one car and its on the road all the time. People like me who have multiple piles of old scrap, all in different states of repair, suffer all the time with SORN declarations etc. Especially when I have to chop and change between what I drive because of cars going in a cycle between being broken and fixed. Dont forget that you can't cash your tax in at the post office now, got to send it off. And nearly every time you cash it in and tax something else you lose months into the ether.
I always think in these scenarios, 'how would I get around this as a criminal?'. And to be fair its a piece of cake. The police now are so reliant on ANPR that if you dont speed and your all good on the database then you will never get pulled, so I would just duplicate the numberplates off a similar looking car. You can even check whenever you want online to confirm that the car you have cloned is still insured, taxed etc.
And the more people that do that, the more innocent people are going to get fines/points for stuff they havent done!
MudLifeCrisis:
Always thought more people would get reported for no road tax if you had to display it on the rear window. :police: [-X
MuddyMike:
--- Quote from: Tommo on November 27, 2010, 09:03:44 ---Im really dreading this.
I always think in these scenarios, 'how would I get around this as a criminal?'. And to be fair its a piece of cake. The police now are so reliant on ANPR that if you don't speed and your all good on the database then you will never get pulled, so I would just duplicate the numberplates off a similar looking car. You can even check whenever you want online to confirm that the car you have cloned is still insured, taxed etc.
And the more people that do that, the more innocent people are going to get fines/points for stuff they havent done!
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Years ago I knew two brothers that made there living selling logs. They owned at least three, some said five identical pick up trucks. They would load the trucks as they cut the logs then stick the one tax disk on each truck as they needed to make deliveries. Each truck had identical number plates and the best one was MOT tested each year. They got caught out when a new local bobby noticed one of the trucks had no brake lights and followed it back into the yard.
Mike
Range Rover Blues:
--- Quote from: MudLifeCrisis on November 27, 2010, 09:13:01 ---Always thought more people would get reported for no road tax if you had to display it on the rear window. :police: [-X
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Don't the Americans put it on the licence plate/number plate instead?
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