NIP received but it wasnt my car

ChumLee

Herzlos wrote: »

Ouch. Don't let people use your trailer with your plate on it. Who knows what'd happen if they were pulled over for having incorrect plates, in terms of getting the trailer back.

Can you seize a trailer for that?

tweenie1

I have provided the persons details

Herzlos

ChumLee wrote: »

Can you seize a trailer for that?

I honestly have no idea. I doubt they'd let you drive away with it in that state though, so you'd either need to send someone else with the correct plate, or get another trailer for it, or park it up for the night.

Whilst it's unlikely to even be spotted, it's not something I'd risk.

ChumLee

Herzlos wrote: »

I honestly have no idea. I doubt they'd let you drive away with it in that state though, so you'd either need to send someone else with the correct plate, or get another trailer for it, or park it up for the night.

Whilst it's unlikely to even be spotted, it's not something I'd risk.

Well they can't seize it and you're creating a problem by missing the obvious. What's on that back of the car that could unscrew and go on the trailer?

Car_54

ChumLee wrote: »

Well they can't seize it and you're creating a problem by missing the obvious. What's on that back of the car that could unscrew and go on the trailer?

And thereby commit another offence.

Mankysteve

ChumLee wrote: »

Well they can't seize it and you're creating a problem by missing the obvious. What's on that back of the car that could unscrew and go on the trailer?

They could seize it and arrest the driver if the police officer may think its stolen.

driver gets tugged for police doesn't believe his story about it being borrowed from a friend, friend uncontactable for some reason.

Would be reasonable grounds to suspect its stolen too me.

There properly is some offense being committed by running a trailers without the right plate too.

Herzlos

I assume it comes under the same law that'll cover driving a car with the wrong plate. Proving it wasn't stolen is a good point too; the only way you can do that i have someone bring along the V5 for the car that has the plate or possible some paperwork covering the sale of the trailer, and unless it's registered on TER that's pretty unlikely.


Taking the plate from the back *might* work, if you're allowed to do that, and have a suitable way of fitting it to the trailer (they don't all fit in the same way, lots of cars have anti-tamper plate fittings).

Then, having been pulled, they'll go over the car and trailer thoroughly - Is everything in road legal order? Are the weight restrictions satisfied? Is the trailer hitched properly and any load secured? Does the drivers license cover that trailer combo? Because lets be honest, the kind of driver that borrows a trailer without changing the plate (and then gone through a speed camera) probably isn't likely to know much else about it. It's quite a common thing to catch out hire van drivers exceeding weight limits, as they just assume if it'll fit inside it's OK.

ChumLee

Car_54 wrote: »

And thereby commit another offence.

What offence would that be then?

The regulations say.

(2) A registration plate must be fixed on the rear of—

(a)the vehicle, or

(b)where the vehicle is towing a trailer, the trailer, or

(c)where the vehicle is towing more than one trailer, the rearmost trailer.

Do you see the words vehicle and trailer?

macman

I'm still trying to work out how the OP managed to forget for two weeks that they had a trailer they'd loaned out...

Herzlos

Cool, so taking the plate off the car to affix to the trailer is legal (if it's physically possible).

macman wrote: »

I'm still trying to work out how the OP managed to forget for two weeks that they had a trailer they'd loaned out...

It's easy enough done - It's not the first thing to spring to mind, especially if they didn't realise it still had their plate on it, or if it had been loaned out for a while. Say they had it for a few days, it wouldn't fit with the ticket in the same was as if they'd loaned it within hours of it happening.