Nice MOT result

It puts a small extra responsibility on the person who voluntarily
chooses to have a shitload of off-the-road vehicles.

I don't think that was ever seriously suggested - or, if it was, it
(quite rightly) got shot down in flames very early on. It was certainly
rumoured, sure, but...

In an ideal world, there wouldn't be a rather large number of twats
driving around in unregistered, uninsured disposable heaps of crap. But
there are. So an annual quick-two-minutes-on-the-web per vehicle, in
return for something that's got a positive effect on that? Works for me...

I'm very surprised you haven't already, tbh.

 

It would not surprise me, it's likely to catch me out as I tend to get
an MOT when I need tax so if I let those get too separated I'll be in
trouble.

 

Depends how long your new insurance takes to appear on MID.

 

<g> I'm as cynical about this bunch of cunts as anybody - but just
whinging at _everything_ that's suggested merely reduces the effect of a
genuine grievance.

 

It was, and it was

You're missing the point. People who just stick two fingers up at the
law will continue to do so. All these new sodding laws do is penalise
the normally law-abiding who may have made a genuine mistake. Every
time the powers that be decide to impose some new restriction or
penalty, the scumbags find a way of countering it.

Revenue cameras? ANPR cameras? Just nick somebody's plates. Penalty if
you don't tell the DVLA you've sold a vehicle? **** it: it wasn't in
my name or address anyway...

etc etc etc

<Small voice>

Not sure how to work it...

 

I managed it. <Thinks> Ah, now I remember I'd insured it earlier,
actually.

 

Angle grinder.

 

I don't think I am.

Indeed. But ANPR etc will (hopefully) get 'em flagged up.

They don't even go to those lengths. They just don't bother registering
it...

....helped by the person they bought it off not being arsed to do their
bit in sending it off...

Must've come from somebody legit at some stage. And when that somebody
legit gets a bollocking because it's started to fall off legality,
they're going to sit up and take notice - and say "Umm, I sold this..." -
at which point, it gets flagged on ANPR.

So what's the better solution to identifying those twats as early as
possible?

 

They're stopping vehicles, yes. But are the miscreants actually being
nicked?

Which is what I said - law abiding people get clobbered.

You've got more faith in ANPR than I have.

 

Welll...
1. They're not "law-abiding", since they didn't bother to do what they're
required to do, inform DVLA of the new keeper's name and address.
2. They'll say "Not me, Gov, I sold it a month ago" and it'll be put on
ice.

 

Which takes us back to my original point: "All these new sodding laws do
is penalise the normally law-abiding who may have made a genuine
mistake."

 

There are online insurers who write a certificate immediately that you
can download as a pdf and then print off. You take this certificate
along with the green 'New Keeper' part of the V5C and a valid MOT
certificate - if needed - with the payment to your local Post Office.
They will tax the car.

It's how I was getting the Evos legal for me and Alex to drive home in
from Lancashire.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer
Fireblade 929 (For sale)
CBR600F-W trackbike
SR250 SpazzTrakka,
SR250 wivva topbox
TS250C
RD400F, somewhere
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Print the certificate off and take that to a Post Office with MOT, the
new keeper section of the V5C and payment. I've done this before a few
times and got the tax discs over the counter.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer
Fireblade 929 (For sale)
CBR600F-W trackbike
SR250 SpazzTrakka,
SR250 wivva topbox
TS250C
RD400F, somewhere
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

if you decide to mot your vehicle at the other end of the country, you
clearly enjoy a bit of a challenge.

 

Try owning a highly-strung two-stroke. The list of people I'd trust to
do serious work on it is shrinking by the minute.

 

I've done the same with a printout of a PDF of a scan of the insurance
certificate.

Lets face it, you could write out an insurance doc in green biro on
lined notepaper and the monkeys behind the counter at most post offices
wouldn't notice. And there's no tune you can whistle, either.

 

I have Outlook calendar entries for tax, insurance and MOT renewal dates
for my fleet (synced to my phone, natch). Have done ever since I missed
an insurance renewal several years ago and didn't realise til four
months after cover had ceased.