Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
DVLA out and about.
Should have bought some road tax!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
Good
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,552
What's the reason for the clamping?
Being untaxed? Or just exceeding an hour's parking?
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
Yes they were busy down on the seafront too. I don't think I ever remember anything being clamped down here before. Ticketed yes...but don't remember any clamping.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Going slightly off at a tangent one of my bugbears is parking wardens that only turn up near me on a Sunday morning very early. What happens is that someone comes home late on a Saturday parks on a double yellow with the intention of moving it first thing in the morning. Happened again two days ago someone just had their back wheels over the lines, certainly not parked dangerously.
The other 6 days when we have a bus service and delivery vehicles from Argos, Homebase, Jewsons etc impeded by illegal parking there is no sign of them.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
They can't clamp for parking - these will be immobilised because of no tax and/or MOT. Interestingly the one on the seafront has a Northern Ireland registration - and it looks as though they may have recently come off a ferry..
Lew Finnis
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
They can also clamp serial offenders with a string of unpaid tickets.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,552
I enlarged the sea front picture and I think it's a regular number plate, it's just that the photo is back-to-front!
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,552
Just checked on the DVLA website
The silver Volkswagen tax expired in 7th May and MOT 26th July.
The BMW's tax expired 30th April, but has an MOT until 9th September next year.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
Here's a close up of the seafront car and number plate. Its actually an enlargement of the earlier picture...
you should be able to see the number plate clearer now
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,552
Oops, my mistake about the number plate
No tax since September last year.
How long until they're taken away or will whole roads eventually fill up with untaxed vehicles?
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
- Posts: 637
There were a couple of cars clamped by DVLA near us (1 in Victoria Park, 1 in Laureston Place) a while ago. They were taken away the following day.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
When cars are taken away, owners are given the choice of paying what they owe (including towing and storage fees) or having the card destroyed or possibly sold. They will still get a summons or fixed penalty for having an untaxed vehicle on the road.
With the car on the seafront, you can still see the ferry loading thingy (whatever they call them) hanging from the mirror. I wonder if they have been abroad for a year and are unlucky to have got picked up as soon as they got back!
Lew Finnis
Guest 744- Registered: 20 Mar 2012
- Posts: 412
Here in France it is possible to insure a British car, keep the number plates and send a SORN to DVLA. I have heard of one or two people who have taken the risk of returning to England for a holiday and promptly had their cars confiscated because they have no road tax or MoT.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
With ANPR cameras all over the place, it's hard to avoid getting caught out.
Lew Finnis
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,818
They,ve also got a Transit van with a load of cameras mounted at different angles on a roofrack which they sometimes cruise the streets with,also has the ANPR cameras.
email: dover7@msn.com
