Trade Plates - Can they be lent?

[Guest]

Because I might need to lend a set.

 

 

Can anyone do better than £102.00 on the train to Exeter St David's (from Altrincham or Stockport) next week?

 

Argh argh argh.

[dollywobbler]

No. Trade plates cannot be lent.

[Station]

My mate was going to put a car on his trade insurance and let me use his plates. No sure of legality of it though, so I didn't do it. Didn't fancy seeing the car impounded 200 miles from home!

[Cavcraft]

You *might* be able to find someone who has trade insurance who will put the car on the database so it doesn't ping the ANPR, off but you'd still be un-insured of course.

 

Is the vehicle untaxed or something? Don't forget trade plates only cover road fund licence and NOT a (lack of) MOT.

[dieselnutjob]

surely if you are a contract employee of the company that owns the trade plates....?

[GJR 11L]

National Express! That's how I've picked up my last two purchases from down South; one from Ashington to MK (280 miles), the other from Ashington to London Victoria (300+ miles), £14-£16 one-way depending on when you ride and, at that kind of money, the smell from the heads on the bus won't bother you. Much.

 

Surely better than risking falling foul of the "Red on white, stop on sight" mentality of many traffic officers.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I dont think the bus is an actual alternative to the trade plates is it? You cant use a bus to get your new shite purchase home.

[AXrescuer]

Because I might need to lend a set.

 

 

Can anyone do better than £102.00 on the train to Exeter St David's (from Altrincham or Stockport) next week?

 

Argh argh argh.

Borrow mate, not lend.

[messerschmitt owner]

try a day insurance policy if you're worried about insurance. No tax/Mot is not good - and if like that, I suggest you get it collected via Shiply.com - can't be more than £150 door to door on a transporter.

[AnthonyG]

Definitely not.

 

Anybody 'willing' to lend you theirs is putting their own status with the DVLA at risk, unless you are an employee of the firm.

 

As Cavette said, trade plates just exempt the driver from displaying the tax disc, they don't allow non Mot'ed cars to be driven about (without good reason such as Mot repairs), or 'provde' insurance.

 

They should only be used for 'trading' activities as well, so going out for chips in an untaxed car, or taking the 'just in as a part-ex' Porsche for a quick blast ain't strictly legal!

[Alexg]

I dont think the bus is an actual alternative to the trade plates is it? You cant use a bus to get your new shite purchase home.

LOL - I just pictured a quick bribe, and then a National Express coach A-framing an old snotter across the UK

[Guest]

Didn't think so. Fuck.

 

Heap in question will be insured and MOT'd. Not quite enough in the kitty to cover tax and purchase. I will have to have a rummage.

[trigger]

I spend 4 years picking up and dropping 100's cars from the local garages on trade plates for bodywork, I often only just left the plates on the passenger seat as well, and i bet many of the cars didn't have mot's as they were mostly trade in's.

 

I never once got pulled by the police but that was 10 years ago now and things are much stricter now.

[messerschmitt owner]

I'd get the bus for £25 or so and use the rest for a 6 month tax disc.

Alternatively, the Shiply idea isn't a bad one!

 

What is it anyway?

[Guest]

I'd get the bus for £25 or so and use the rest for a 6 month tax disc.

Alternatively, the Shiply idea isn't a bad one!

 

What is it anyway?

Thanks to some skillful trainline QUOTES 4 U I have my train bill down to £35.

 

One will have to find out what I R buying.

[messerschmitt owner]

Show us it next week ...

 

good news on the train front!

[chester drawers]

You cant use a bus to get your new shite purchase home.

[GJR 11L]

I dont think the bus is an actual alternative to the trade plates is it? You cant use a bus to get your new shite purchase home.

 

OK, so I may have misunderstood the nature of the problem, it's just that, when standing on the exit slip from a typical M-way greasy spoon, trying to hitch, most travellers of the commercial variety will look kindly upon you if you're dressed in a Liverpool boiler suit with the name of a dealership on the back, clutching a pair of trade plates, so I thought that, errrrr, OK, hole, stop digging, done.