i couldnt believe it!

[Antshiel]

You get a grip. Failure to display has been an offence for a long time. Just comply and you wont get fined. Theres nothing hard about sticking your tax disc on your windscreen. You may not know but places such as post offices and car accessory shops sell TAX DISC HOLDERS just for that purpose.

So what happens when you have an involuntary stay in hospital fot the best part of three months and the disc drops off the screen. lets hope they don't get hold of you eh!!

[Taliesins]

So what happens when you have an involuntary stay in hospital fot the best part of three months and the disc drops off the screen. lets hope they don't get hold of you eh!!

You answered that yourself in your earlier post.
Was it 3 months or 3 weeks? or were you unfortunate enough to have an involuntary stay for both periods of time.
My tax discs only come off when I take them off every 12 months on all 4 of my vehicles. Never had a problem (so far) with them dropping off. So they ain't got hold of me yet. If you want to drive on the public highway there are laws in place. No matter how trivial you may think they are they are there for a reason.
Just comply no problem.
BTW If the car park was private my argument would be the law wouldn't apply
because it isn't a public highway.

[nero279]

edited: the main reason for it needing to be displayed is so you can't transfer it between vehicles as far as i'm aware, or leave it in a different vehicle to the one it was purchased for to make that vehicle appear to have tax, IMO it's a fair cop, if it was in the car but not on display you'd probably have got away with it.

[PDR]

Sorry, but your just asking for trouble by not displaying a current tax disk.

Does every beat bobby or traffic warden have access to the police / DVLA database?
and if they do would they bother checking it?

If you use the Mersey tunnels (for example) it would only be a matter of time before you where caught either with the overhead ANPR cameras or by the officers who pull cars out of the line of traffic when they have their organized vehicle stops every few months…. If a police officer sees you without a tax disk then he is probably going to be wondering what other laws you are also breaking?

Is it worth all the hassle for the sake of the few seconds it takes to fit a disk in your windscreen?

[yoshie]

Sorry, but your just asking for trouble by not displaying a current membership star.
Does every beat bobby or traffic warden have access to the police / DVLA database?
and if they do would they bother checking it?

If you use the Mersey tunnels (for example) it would only be a matter of time before you where caught either with the overhead ANPR cameras or by the officers who pull cars out of the line of traffic when they have their organized vehicle stops every few months…. If a police officer sees you without a tax disk then he is probably going to be wondering what other laws you are also breaking?

Is it worth all the hassle for the sake of the few seconds it takes to pay your subs and help keep the forum alive?

http://www.hiluxsurf.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1140

[Maverick]

Absolutley brilliant Yoshie.
You go get 'em.

[The Hornet]

Copper charged me £30 for cleaning my No' plate. I couldn't believe that 1.

[fatfires]

Copper charged me £30 for cleaning my No' plate. I couldn't believe that 1.

should have asked him "how much to clean the whole truck?"

[The Hornet]

It was on my bike.
What an officious fooker he was. Asked me how many speed cameras I had raced through with an obscurd plate. If I'd known he was going to fine me I'd have said everyone I passed.

[Dean K]

Well at least not everyone hates the police and go for the easy "I should have been slapped on the wrists etc"

Dean

[soramad]

i can't hate the police as my eldest son is a police officer in milton keynes ,not a highway copper though. just a foot soldier.unfortuanatly they have a job to do and that is enforcing the laws that are introduced by succesive goverments where major or trivial,its just that some are a bit more jobsworth than others, and i think the displaying of road tax has been around since it was introduced and i think its even printed on the back of the disc certainly since the 60's

[da SLUG man]

i got pulled for a headlamp out... grabbed a new one from the glovebox and borrowed the coppers torch to fit it.... then he used the torch to see while he wrote out a £30 ticket!!!....

what can you do??

[Sancho]

i got pulled for a headlamp out... grabbed a new one from the glovebox and borrowed the coppers torch to fit it.... then he used the torch to see while he wrote out a £30 ticket!!!....

what can you do??

I thought you couldn't get done for it as long as it was alright at the start of the journey?