Tractor is due for taxing at the end of this month and I have been waiting for the reminder so I can sort it. The reminder usually arrives early in the preceding month but it still hasnt arrived.
Decided to go on line just to check the renewal date (too lazy to go outside and look). The DVLA site shows it as SORNED!
I have been using it all year knowing it is taxed and insured but not knowing I would have been challenged if any ANPR system had picked me up. Vehicle clamped seized and all that.
When the tractor (second hand) was delivered I had to wait for the insurance paperwork in order to tax it. That meant SORNing it for the two or three days it takes for the insurance cert to arrive so I could tax it at the local post office.
When the cert arrived I taxed it at the post office and therfore hat the tax disk in my hand, stick it on the tractor and everything is fine. If I had taxed it on line I woluld have had to wait even longer before using it.
Seems the DVLA failed to do their job properly and update their records.
In the past when I have bought a vehicle I have had letters from the DVLA for not SORNing for the few days gap between becoming the owner and taxing (ps I do not flout laws) as the DVLA records this against the previous owner untill the paperwork has gone through.
The moral to me is take screen shots of everything and do the on line monitoring. Do not rely on the DVLA doing their job properly. They suffer no consequences for their errors, we potentially do!
Annoyed, Derby!
Decided to go on line just to check the renewal date (too lazy to go outside and look). The DVLA site shows it as SORNED!
I have been using it all year knowing it is taxed and insured but not knowing I would have been challenged if any ANPR system had picked me up. Vehicle clamped seized and all that.
When the tractor (second hand) was delivered I had to wait for the insurance paperwork in order to tax it. That meant SORNing it for the two or three days it takes for the insurance cert to arrive so I could tax it at the local post office.
When the cert arrived I taxed it at the post office and therfore hat the tax disk in my hand, stick it on the tractor and everything is fine. If I had taxed it on line I woluld have had to wait even longer before using it.
Seems the DVLA failed to do their job properly and update their records.
In the past when I have bought a vehicle I have had letters from the DVLA for not SORNing for the few days gap between becoming the owner and taxing (ps I do not flout laws) as the DVLA records this against the previous owner untill the paperwork has gone through.
The moral to me is take screen shots of everything and do the on line monitoring. Do not rely on the DVLA doing their job properly. They suffer no consequences for their errors, we potentially do!
Annoyed, Derby!
