what if you don't pay the road tax?

BykerSands

aardvaak wrote: »

Unless sorned you will get an £80 instant fine, car taken to a pound charged by the day and crushed after 14 days and if you used on the road points on your licence and a large fine

No, you will not get points on your licence.

dannyrst

londonTiger wrote: »

id be surprised if you can keep the car on the road for long. With ANPR and the terrorist threat in London you'll struggle to get by without be spotted by police.

SInce the Paris attacks I've been pulled over twice for insurance checks. I even heard one police chck my details on the radio. They checked for MOT, insurance, confirmed my name, address, DOB etc. Checked if there was anything outstanding or any notifications about me on the system. Did not recall any road tax issues but I'm sure that was something they'd checked if they're checking all these other stuff.

Interesting, for what reason were you stopped if you had valid insurance, tax and MOT?

Was it, by any chance, racial profiling?

aardvaak

BykerSands wrote: »

No, you will not get points on your licence.

If used on the road and presumably will have no insurance - YOU WILL

BeenThroughItAll

aardvaak wrote: »

If used on the road and presumably will have no insurance - YOU WILL

Who mentioned insurance?

londonTiger

dannyrst wrote: »

Interesting, for what reason were you stopped if you had valid insurance, tax and MOT?

Was it, by any chance, racial profiling?

No idea, I'm keeping a record of the stoppages, once I rack up 4 I will file it all to the IPCC

dannyrst

londonTiger wrote: »

No idea, I'm keeping a record of the stoppages, once I rack up 4 I will file it all to the IPCC

Rightly so. Unless you ping an ANPR camera or they have a reason to stop you, they should leave you alone.

londonTiger

dannyrst wrote: »

Rightly so. Unless you ping an ANPR camera or they have a reason to stop you, they should leave you alone.

it's not ANPR, ANPR you'll only get pulled over if you have something blatently not right on the system. But its not foolproof because people drive their brothers/spouses/parent cars uninsured etc.

ANPR will give it a false pass. So they do random roadside stoppages at chokepoints, they close down all but one lane, filter traffic through 1 lane. then randomly ask certain vehicles to pull over. they check the usual stuff but also check to make sure the insured driver is driving and nobody else.

I've been unlucky to get pulled over 2/3 times I passed one of these. It's officers on the ground that make the call to pull people over. Once or twice I don't mind but if it's more frequent its a PITA.

BykerSands

aardvaak wrote: »

If used on the road and presumably will have no insurance - YOU WILL

Ah so you link the lack of tax invalidates your insurance?

Well it doesn't so you're wrong again. You WON'T get points.