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Red and white plates usage

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  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
    Kilty wrote: »
    Ah, missed that bit :T

    So then, when a salesman puts the trade plate in the front window for a test drive - is he breaking the law or am I as the driver?

    We are.

    We just carry them in the footwell, as having them in the screen is more of an offence than not having them at all.

    You are meant to cover the front plate up with the Trade Plate but I've seen how much damage they make when they fall off! Even the magnet ones are crap!
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Kilty wrote: »
    According to the DVLA guidance notes linked to at that website it is not legal to keep a vehicle on the road bearing trade plates when it's not being used except in an emergency.

    Huh?

    Trade plates are to be used only by the business registered on them (or employees of that business), including sole traders, for the purposes of the business. It is not legal to permanently use them in place of a RFL disc.

    My guess is that he is under the misapprehension they also exempt him from needing an MOT as well.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Gandalfthesecond wrote: »
    I'd report him to the DVLA, abuse of trade plates is taken seriously. If the car is such a wreck it may not have any MOT and trade plates don't always offer an automatic exemption to this.

    Trade plates never offer an excemption.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Kilty_2
    Kilty_2 Posts: 5,818 Forumite
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Huh?

    It's quite clear - you cannot park a car on a public road with trade plates.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Kilty wrote: »
    It's quite clear - you cannot park a car on a public road with trade plates.

    But Kilty, you wrote "keep a vehicle on the road," not "park a vehicle on the road."
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Kilty_2
    Kilty_2 Posts: 5,818 Forumite
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    But Kilty, you wrote "keep a vehicle on the road," not "park a vehicle on the road."

    That tends to be how the DVLA describe parking a vehicle for any amount of time :rotfl:
  • kittiej
    kittiej Posts: 2,564 Forumite
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    Thanks for the input guys. You've given me a few ideas esp the reporting of running a business from home since it's strictly forbidden as theirs is a HA house.

    I've reported it to DVLA and local council as an abandoned vehicle - not strictly true but it does ask if the vehicle is taxed and I couldn't see where else to inform them on their website.

    Hopefully it will be sorted out.
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  • rev_henry
    rev_henry Posts: 4,965 Forumite
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    kittiej wrote: »
    Thanks for the input guys. You've given me a few ideas esp the reporting of running a business from home since it's strictly forbidden as theirs is a HA house.

    I've reported it to DVLA and local council as an abandoned vehicle - not strictly true but it does ask if the vehicle is taxed and I couldn't see where else to inform them on their website.

    Hopefully it will be sorted out.
    If its a HA home consider informing your Housing Officer as well.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Kilty wrote: »
    That tends to be how the DVLA describe parking a vehicle for any amount of time :rotfl:

    Keeping a vehicle on the road includes driving it on the road.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    rev_henry wrote: »
    If its a HA home consider informing your Housing Officer as well.

    Woah, there now. Just because he has been a bit naughty with his car, there is no need to get him into trouble with his landlord as well, unless he has been creating an anti-social problem. Being trouble with the DVLA will be enough for now.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
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