DVLA £465 fine for sorn car?

Rover_Driver

Ant555 wrote: »

Ah, so its an £80 fine if you do not let them know about a SORN status and then higher if they think you have not 'de-sorned' through the correct channels.

Thanks

Not quite, the Late Licensing Penalty is not a fine, it is an £80 penalty for failing to license a vehicle on expiry of the old one. A SORN is one of the exemptions that a licence is required.

Rover_Driver

Pete531 wrote: »

Yes Rover driver, it's an out of court fee, if you go to court it can cost £1000.

Up to £2,500 in the case of a SORN vehicle on a public road.

Pete531

Thanks for that Alan, feeling deflated now I wrongly assumed you could charge at least minimum wage for your efforts in defending yourself, if we go to court I might as well stump up for a solicitor and rack their costs up.

Pete531

Rover_Driver wrote: »

Up to £2,500 in the case of a SORN vehicle on a public road.

It states £1000 for not supplying the imformation requested, my mistake.

Guest101

AlanCarter wrote: »

It's not, guest101 is confused as to what a "crime number" is.

Log number, crime number, makes no difference for this purpose.


Yes I meant a log number, blonde moment.


Its still a record of the facts as the OP sees it

Pete531

Victory!!
Just called DVLA again, clamping dept. To see where we're up to, the young lady got her manager and it seems an apology letter is on its way. They can't tell me what's gone wrong or why all this has happened.
But I can submit a claim for costs to the address on the letter so she tells me.
Letter will no doubt take 10 days or more as do most of theirs.

Pete531

Thanks you to everyone, some good advice given on here, been a great help.

GingerBob_3

Pete531 wrote: »

Victory!!
Just called DVLA again, clamping dept. To see where we're up to, the young lady got her manager and it seems an apology letter is on its way. They can't tell me what's gone wrong or why all this has happened.
But I can submit a claim for costs to the address on the letter so she tells me.
Letter will no doubt take 10 days or more as do most of theirs.

Clamping Department!! They want a bloody great clamp putting on their entire operation. Sodding leeches. I used to think TV Licensing was the biggest organisational parasite in the UK, but I'm now thinking DVLA.


Anyway, glad you got it sorted. Sting them for as much compo as you can get away with.

AlanCarter

GingerBob wrote: »

Clamping Department!! They want a bloody great clamp putting on their entire operation. Sodding leeches. I used to think TV Licensing was the biggest organisational parasite in the UK, but I'm now thinking DVLA.


Anyway, glad you got it sorted. Sting them for as much compo as you can get away with.

Somehow I think a couple of freephone calls on behalf of his son isn't much of a proveable loss.

Pete531

If only it was as simple as a couple of freephone calls, as a rough guess it's taken about 16 hours of my time.