Government slashes motoring red tape

s_b

hot off the press again

some good stuff

glad i filled in the online question and answers now

you will see my thread earlier this week with regards the closing of local dvla offices and now we are going to get easier sorn and taxing of cars

anyway enough waddle from me plenty to read in the link

http://www.dft.gov.uk/news/press-releases/dft-press-20111215

TeaCake

I think i'll always want to have an insurance certificate, even if the insurance company email me one that I print off. Theres been a few examples on TV real life cop shows where the MIB dont always hold the correct information about insurance.

mikey72

"Abolishing the requirement for drivers to prove they have insurance when applying for tax meaning 600000 more people will be able to tax their car online. This has been made possible by new checks of existing databases for insurance under new Continuous Insurance Enforcement rules. The DVLA’s records are compared regularly with the Motor Insurance Database (MID) to identify registered keepers of vehicles that appear to have no insurance. "

So you can tax a car without insurance, then the dvla will write to you, asking you to sorn it, then you can re tax it again a month later, and start over?
So two £300 cars, and I can swop from one to another, month in, month out, and save thousands on the insurance?

epninety

mikey72 wrote: »

So you can tax a car without insurance, then the dvla will write to you, asking you to sorn it, then you can re tax it again a month later, and start over?
So two £300 cars, and I can swop from one to another, month in, month out, and save thousands on the insurance?

More likely, you buy tax, they take your money, then send you a fine for owning an uninsured, taxed, vehicle.

The press release says "Under Continuous Insurance Enforcement it is an offence to keep an uninsured vehicle, rather than just to drive when uninsured." which is, of course, either just plain wrong, or an over simplification (depending on how charitable you feel).

scheming_gypsy

Some of them seem to forget that not everybody is living in the digital age. Not everybody has the internet or a computer; even people with computers will want to keep hold of paper.
The V5C shows how many owners it's had, tax classification, if it's been written off etc. You don't want to have to go on the internet just to check details, especially if you turn up to look at a car; you want to look at the log book to make sure it matches what the seller has said,

and

“Motorists shouldn’t have to keep numerous bits of paper just to prove they can drive and have bought insurance – we live in digital age and we need to embrace that.

Is straight from the mouth of somebody who's probably never owned their own car / owned a car over a few years old. Anybody who's buying a second hand car, wants to see receipts, old MOT's and service books etc; so why is it a hassle to put the insurance and V5 etc in the same folder as the other paperwork?