VED evasion up under new system.

bigjl

dannyrst wrote: »

I'm pretty sure most of them aren't even on when the speed isn't lowered.

From what I have been led to believe the M25 variable speed limit sections were the first place this technology was tried.

And it has definitely gone live as far as prosecutions for exceeding the lowered limits.

Can't speak for anywhere else though.

dannyrst

I remember one of the motorways up here (Yorkshire) implemented it and was prosecuting when the signs were blank and there was uproar because people thought it was unfair to be caught when the speed wasn't showing. I'm still confused why they are complaining because they were speeding regardless of whether the sign was lit up or not.

patman99

I read it on the BBC news section of their website on Tuesday. I was looking for something else and as per usual, one of the links to news items had the headline of 'Car Tax evasion up 60% since paper Tax disc scrapped'.

I didn't have time to read the article, but am simply quoting the BBC headline.
It was also mentioned on BBC Essex as well.

In summary, if you live in a rural area (as I do) you are highly unlikely to pass an ANPR camera, or indeed be spotted by a Police car equiped with one. So you could get away with avoiding car Tax quite easily.
In fact, I travel the A12 regularly for both work and pleasure and in the last 3 years have only ever seen a Police car when it is screaming down the A12 with blues and twos going as it heads towards yet another ceash caused by some tail-gatting muppet.

Moto2

I regularly see DVLA cars parked up with a camera on a tripod at the back so they do get out and about.

I too live in a rural area and in my normal domestic travels, won't pass a static ANPR camera

As for the police, I believe they only deal with social media based crime these days, call some one names on Facebook or Twitter and they'll be round - mob handed - pronto

Norman_Castle

I read it on the BBC news section of their website on Tuesday.

Your browser history for Tuesday should show it.

Rover_Driver

It is doesn't really matter if the vehicle is seen on a road by camera or operative, unless exempt, a registered vehicle is required to be licensed - wherever it is.

xHannahx

Confusion over the new rules has been blamed for a dramatic rise in prosecutions for untaxed vehicles. According to DVLA data obtained by AutoExpress, 117,490 enforcement cases were created in the six months after the tax disc was scrapped, compared with 82,999 or 86,939 in the previous two six-month periods when the tax disc was still in operation. Out-of-court settlements also doubled from 53,799 to 97,348 in the six-month period, while the number of cars clamped for unpaid road tax has soared from around 5,500 per month to 8,800.

Source: http://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/59941/road-tax-changes-explained-how-to-renew-your-tax-disc-5

peter_the_piper

So that's either more people taking a chance or there is a greater number of checks being made. (Or both)

Norman_Castle

xHannahx wrote: »

Source: http://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/59941/road-tax-changes-explained-how-to-renew-your-tax-disc-5

"More than half of British drivers are still displaying tax disc holders in their cars, eight months after the paper tax disc was scrapped, according to a recent survey.
The long-serving tax disc has been consigned to history after a new road tax system replaced the perforated paper circle in October last year.
Instead, an electronic database now keeps track of who has paid their road tax, officially known as vehicle excise duty. Those who have not paid up face a fine of £1,000.
But a survey of 1,050 drivers, by business car hire company Leasing Options, found that 62 per cent of people are yet to remove their tax disc holder from their windscreens.
Nearly a quarter of people are displaying an expired tax disc, over a fifth are still displaying their current tax disc and 17 per cent have an empty tax disc holder on show.
The most common reasons for displaying a tax disc holder was out of habit or laziness, but one in ten said they were not aware that it no longer needed to be displayed. Around seven per cent of drivers said they were holding onto the tax disc for reasons of nostalgia and nearly half of all those surveyed said that they missed the old tax disc system."


Who cares?. What a pointless survey!.

peter_the_piper

Bet Ceph keeps a copy in his file of useless graphs/surveys. I'm sure it'll come in handy some day.:rotfl: