Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > DVLA reminds motorists of new motor insurance law!

[Bionicle]

Uninsured will just sorn them and still drive so cant see the reasoning behind this realy.

[bradders]

Originally Posted by Bionicle

Uninsured will just sorn them and still drive so cant see the reasoning behind this realy.

or they will not register it and the poor last owner will be guilty until proven innocent

oh goody, another stealth tax for those of us who have some fear of authority and something to lose.

going to be interesting to see how they police it; the insurance register isnt exactly accurate...

[Loz]

Hmm ... seems to me, once again, Government is increasing its efforts to punish those who are already being policed, whilst doing nothing to address those individuals who stand completely outside the law.

This does not clamp down on uninsured drivers, it simply closes the fist on those people at the margins, the partially compliant owners already in the system.

Government is always doing that. Either a quick fix and easy answers, or doing nothing at all.

[skidlids]

My Dad will love it, he was only telling me today about how people are selling cars in Oxford that have been bought a couple of weeks earlier usually from Up-North and then park them in the road on the main routes in and out of the City with For Sale notices in the window. As long as they are taxed their is little the Police can do about it.

Maybe having to insure them will put people of using the roads as sales forecourts and if they SORN them then they can be removed from the roads.
The local dealers that pay rates for thier sale forecourts will probably be happy about the new law

[Loz]

Good point Kev, but I wonder if that is just a happy coincidence or if the Govt had intended this.

[170]

Originally Posted by skidlids

As long as they are taxed their is little the Police can do about it.

No a car has to be insured if it's parked on a public road.

They'll show them as 'in trade' with the DVLA and a multi car traders policy will cover them all.

[skidlids]

Originally Posted by 170

No a car has to be insured if it's parked on a public road.

They'll show them as 'in trade' with the DVLA and a multi car traders policy will cover them all.

Thats what my Dad thought (had his own Car garage many years ago) but not according to the WPC my Dad talked to about it yesterday.
The local rag did a bit on it last week, with their reporter calling the number on one of the cars and waited by it for someone to arrive, apparently the guys dad had bought it two weeks earlier up-North and now wanted to sell it.