Has anyone been done for driving without tax recently?

[cobblers]

I've always been a bit casual about actually taxing stuff - If it's sorned and I just run it for a few days now and again I don't bother, cos in practice the penalty for not taxing a vehicle is basically just "tax it" plus £60 from my understanding.

 

Lately there's a Mr knowitall I'm associated with spouting that he reckons his brother in law got a £1000 fine for being one day out of tax because of "THE NEW TAX LAWS"

I know it's "up to" £1k and don't believe for a second that he actually got stung for that. and I can't anything on the internetweb saying what you are likely to actually get VS what they threaten you will get.

 

Also I need to pick up some plasterboard and timber tomorrow in my untaxed camper van and I can't find the V5 to tax it, and I'll need to leave it parked for a few hours on a scruffy estate where the DVLA ANPR van comes round now and again.

[D Spares & Tyres]

£60 fine and pay the back tax

 

mrs dodgytom was done in her dads car. A corsa that he bought cos of its £30 a year tax but was too lazy to tax it. She didn`t realise it was 4 months out

[derskine]

Totally unrelated but loving the bo-bandy avatar.

[Lacquer Peel]

I forgot to tax the Volvo for a while, nothing came of it.

[JohnK]

Everything I drive is taxed* and I can confirm I have no problems. Sneaky camera on the A19 once a week does require strategic placing of your number plate blocked out by the lorry you're overtaking on some occasions though. What a shame.

[Aston Martin]

I got done last year, the car hadn't moved in months and was kind of out the way. Anyway... the car was clamped, I was fined. I had to pay a clamp removal fee, if I paid the tax and then showed the tax disc to the office. In fucking Sheffield!!! I'm in Hull, so no idea how that works, show them the tax disc and then they remove the fine. But obviously not the clamp nonsense fee.

 

 

 

This was parked, not even driving.

[carlo]

 

 

Also I need to pick up some plasterboard and timber tomorrow in my untaxed camper van and I can't find the V5 to tax it, and I'll need to leave it parked for a few hours on a scruffy estate where the DVLA ANPR van comes round now and again.

 

Anarchy in the UK

[anonymous user]

A colleague did have a bit of fun and games recently, having inherited her step-father's car. It took her a little while to sort out the paperwork for the car, due to things like organising the funeral, upset family and trying to sort out a multitude of other things that come up when someone pops their clogs. To be fair, after the initial threats of fines of up to one billion pounds, for not sorning, re-taxing, re-registering, etc. she did get hold of a human at DVLA who sorted it all out at no cost and with a bit of sympathy.

[chaseracer]

This was parked, not even driving.

 

Bit hard to clamp a car when it's moving... 

[Station]

The rigmarole of MOTing the MGF, I went up and down the M6 on four journeys in on month (nearly 1000 miles) untaxed and unMOTed. Completely got away with it, apart from one moment when a traffic cop was parked in one of those lay-bys on the side for highway patrol vehicles. Got the fear and booted it, pulled off the next junction where I hid for 15 minutes. Driving it back down again for the last time, another traffic cop was coming out of a parking lane on the M54. Pulled out behind me, and I thought that's it, I'm getting pulled over. He hung about 300 yards behind me, and as soon as a slip road appeared I legged it and ended up in some country lane. Got back on the motorway, and further up the road, he had pulled over some one. Very stressful, will never do that long distance mot thing again!

Have driven a few times untaxed, but I'm a good actor and can talk my way out of things it seems!

[Station]

Bit hard to clamp a car when it's moving... 

Hey, that's how breakdancing was invented!

[derskine]

Do you think he's been arrested?

[JohnK]

Traffic Coppers don't have ANPR activated all the time it seems.

 

Passed a Cleveland Police traffic BMW today in Rover which was showing as untaxed * and uninsured on the MID (just bought it) and he didn't even batter an eyelid

[D Spares & Tyres]

i`m worried about posting anything illegal or and any dodges online....... but I`m totally 100% legal anyway...... 

 

my ex brother in law is high up in the staffordshire police force and lives miles away from anyone I know yet he knows my nickname of dodgytom...

 

how is this possible without some snooping?

[castros_bro]

i`m worried about posting anything illegal or and any dodges online....... but I`m totally 100% legal anyway...... 

 

my ex brother in law is high up in the staffordshire police force and lives miles away from anyone I know yet he knows my nickname of dodgytom...

 

how is this possible without some snooping?

 

Yer misses has tatooed "I'm Tom and I'm dodgy" on yer forehead.

[raggerminder]

Perhaps he's a closet Shiter too?

[Uncle Jimmy]

I read that around 10% of notices served are wrong anyway; a bit of dirt on the plates is enough to make the cameras misread them and send an innocent a fine.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Perhaps he's a closet Shiter too?

he`s a dubber......

[D Spares & Tyres]

Yer misses has tatooed "I'm Tom and I'm dodgy" on yer forehead.

been known as dodgytom from quite a while back unfortunately.... there was another Tom and he ended up as poshTom so as not to get confused. Not been dodgy for years but it stuck   He`s never been posh but he does have a Citroen ZX Volcane fetish. Has about 4 I think