Paid DVLA fee for clamp, now got a letter for separate fine

Quentin

Well......discovering no tax as advertised and accepting just 100 in compensation for not only no tax but being sorn (so you knew it couldn't be driven back home!)

Not getting it transferred to the new owner, parking it untaxed and upsetting a jobsworth neighbour..........no service history after all this time......etc etc

katie84

Quentin wrote: »

Well......discovering no tax as advertised and accepting 100 in compensation for not only no tax but being sorn (so you knew it couldn't be driven back home!)

Not getting it transferred to the new owner, parking it untaxed and upsetting a jobsworth neighbour..........no service history after all this time......etc etc

Driving it back SORN was a risk, which admittedly, we shouldn't have taken.

Our friend stitched us up by not taking height measurements beforehand, and told us he didn't want it, as it was too tall. We were then left with a van to sell, hence it not being transferred to anyone's name.

The service history isn't our fault, apart from setting off before remembering we weren't given any. We called immediately to be told they'd post it the following morning.

As for the neighbour, sod him. Our mistake was leaving the van parked there, after we realised he was a curtain twitcher.

We all make mistakes.

harrys_dad

katie84 wrote: »

We had the van parked on our drive (we trade from home) and moved it down the road to make some room (Mistake #2). Got into a debate with a man who was complaining about where we parked it. Moved it a little further down the road, (Mistake #3) and returned at 5pm to find it had been clamped.

I am not surprised that if you "trade from home" that your neighbors dob you in at every opportunity if you park vans in the street. Are you a registrered trader? Do you have permission to "trade from home", i.e. business use on your home?

I am sorry you seem to have been ripped off by the person who sold you the van, but everything else is just the way the law should be it seems to me.

londonTiger

Quentin wrote: »

and upsetting a jobsworth neighbour..........

this is the only bit I disagree with. Neighbour has full rights to complain. I had a neighbour who fancied himself as a part time scrap metal collector and several days would leave a truck with junk at the back parked on residential roads. Was a bloody eyesore.

I didn't complain but someone else did. Or maybe the traffic warden alerted the council and just days later a COUNCIL AWARE notice was stuck on the windows.

It's a bloody nuisance when neighbours decided to set up business in residential properties and create inconvenience for everyone else in the road./