howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
For some they never had them in the first place.Ha
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
In some parts of the country they are as rare as a penny black.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#4
I'm not sure this is a good thing.
Why do the Police only need to check if a car is taxed, if it is involved in an RTA ? Maybe visual checks have decreased over recent years, but I think it is a good visual sign that a car is taxed.
Cyprus has done the same thing - making it not necessary for the tax disc to be shown, but now they have found that a lot, an awful lot, less people are buying them, so less income for their treasury.
I walk down the Folkestone Road pretty often and a while ago there was a white van with a tax disc of August last year, so I contacted our PCSO who said he would attend to it, about a couple of months later I saw it back again, but no updated tax-disc so I wrote again; I haven't seen the van since.
Roger
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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There was an enforcement van in the Victoria Park area a few months ago. It clamped a four wheel drive vehicle and the vehicle was towed away the next day.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
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You won't be surprised to learn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42009111
[U]The number of unlicensed vehicles on the road has tripled since the paper tax disc was abolished, government figures show.
The data, published every two years, shows that the government potentially lost out on £107m from 755,000 unlicensed vehicles last year.[/U]
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
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#7
I often wonder if these so called DVLA cameras are actually working.I,ve known of certain cars that have been driven for months with no road tax through cameras and just about everywhere without any problems whatsoever.Dont know why they did away with the paper disc,nothings improved.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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It appears they have saved £7 million and lost £107 million.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Going off at a bit of a tangent an ongoing problem getting worse where I live is business vehicles usually for civil engineering or Network Rail contractors taking up a lot of space and making it difficult for delivery vehicles or buses to pass through. It used to be that companies had depots for their vehicles overnight but they cost save by leaving the employee to park up near his/her home.
I tried looking at DVLA website to find out what road tax they pay but seemed rather complicated unless one knew the full details of each vehicle, but I feel that they should pay a lot more than a car.
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
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We have quite a few of those vans around here,mainly rail companys which most of these vans are leased so the y dont really give a s""t what happens to them and often driven by young inexperienced drivers who also dont give a s""t how they drive or park them.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The vehicle from Keltbray(rail contractor) is the biggest problem where I live. It is simply too big and however hard the driver tries to park sensibly it means problems for buggies on the pavement or traffic on the road. The driver must work nights as the vehicle is there all day and at weekends and got a parking ticket last Sunday morning. Probably cheaper for the company to pay for the odd parking ticket than run a depot.
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
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The Road Tax dodgers overall cost to the country is possibly paltry, compared to the damage done by uninsured drivers to the individuals that encounter said uninsured drivers.
Replace Road Tax with a tax on fuel. Those that drive the most, and want to own irresponsible, gas guzzling, planet destroying, way too big for your average British road anyway, I want to show off how big I a car I can afford type vehicle owners to consider their values.
Put "I am in insured" stickers in the window as well as bringing back RT stickers.
A friend. Of a friend. Of a friend. Who had a friend who was a policeperson told me that said policeperson used to love spotting out of date tax discs.
"A sure sign of a scofflaw who is probably scoffing at other laws. Worth a pull".
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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
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And make the insurers issue the stickers.
(Not my real name.)