No good busy bodies !

[justdan]

Sleepy little village , my pal is away working in the rigs and I'm turning his delica over a couple of times a week !
Just gone out to fire it and the bloody thing has a ticket on it for no tax ! The wee man that wonders up the village writing reg numbers down needs to get a life
And to top it off , the things taxed but he failed to put it in the bloody window it was I the glove box with all his paper work !!!!!
Class act

[4x4 bobby]

They cant do anything about it unless the tax was out more than 2 months and 1 day and that's DVLA rules the police have to follow. and if they had checked with DVLA they would see it is taxed. So the ticket is nil and void mate!

[justdan]

I think the old disc was the July ( truck was park off road ) you think they just bang m on in the thinking that people just pay up ???
I'm raging , purely because it is taxed ! I'm goner have to park mine up until my disc comes or it will be me next ! On the plus side I can play in his delica until it lands

[Wilberforce]

Have a read of what the ticket actually says: namely who its been issued by and why.

For example, what you most often get is not "no tax" but "failure to display". It's to encourage people to shove the disc in as soon as they get it rather than do what your mate did.
Ticket should also explain how to appeal too, and that's best done as soon as possible.

[Wilberforce]

As a further thought, if you've taxed your truck online though, you do have a grace period of a few days to allow for the post.
No need to park your motor up unless you want to.

[adyclemo]

On the basis that the vehicle is parked of the road leads me to believe the vehicle is parked on private property or a car park. If its on private property displaying a valid tac disc is not needed as long as it is taxed or sorn'd your fine plus that should surly lead to trespassing, however if in a car park then sadly just having it taxed is not enough it needs to be displayed.

Where i used to live in Nottingham it was all on road parking only and a transit mini bus that was used by the hostel was parked at least not displaying a valid tax disc for 6 months and had not moved in that time either and there was no notices put on that (would be surprised if it had a valid mot either as it really should have been in the scrap yard).

[justdan]

Going to head the cop shot in the morning and ask them what can be done as the envelope was open and just a ticket .... It was issues by police but on the ticket it says to contest this fill in section 4 but there ain't a section 4 , there's nothing that you can fill in !!!!!!!!

[4x4 bobby]

Sound like someone up to no good as the police can check easy for tax and the paperwork would have to be spot-on!!

[gregster]

[justdan]

The plot thickens , the dingbat pal if mine had a ticket the day before he got the chopper out to the rig ! At that point any normal person would say " crap " put my tax disc in and not leave it sat in the glove box !!!!
So he now has 2 tickets !!!!! Is that not backwards ! Cars parked on road , I'm insured via third party from my insurance so no worrys there !
It's now left In his hands for when he gets home ! As I ain't got £100 to pay it for him and to be honest for being so bloody stupid he can sort it !

[gregster]

Didnt mean to sound over dramatic when I said about the insurance thing, its just one of them things that if you aint careful you can walk into unwittingly and in solving your mates problem you can end up dropping yourself right in it. You see with all these things the registered keeper isnt neccesarily the owner or user of the vehicle, its the drivers responsibility to ensurethe vehicle is legal before using it and that would extend to making sure the tax is in the window, although any summonse/fine would be directed to the reg keeper as the recorded point of contact asking who was driving/last used the car...and if they wanted to get arsey, and if you had put pen to paper and admitted you had the keys and were starting it up, then a court could find you were in control of the vehicle and hence liable.

Like you said, stay out of it and let you mate sort it when he comes back...

[justdan]

Defo Greg , the guys a tube for not just sticking the thing in the window like any other normal person ........ And to get 2 tickets is comical and this morning he told me dvla are trying to fine him because when it was off the road for 2 weeks the soft sh@t didn't sorn it !!!!
Fool fool fool
It's goner be a expensive month for him lol
May stop bragging about how much he earns after this lol

[jimmybhoy]

Who issued the ticket Dan? If it's police or council, then he has to pay. If he , like yourself lives in scotland, these are the only people who can legally enforce a ticket. If it's from a private mob (incl hospitals) tell him 2 bin it not worth the paper it's printed on.

[justdan]

Coppers buddy. !!!! Lol it's his own stupid fault !!! Iv no sympathy now , after already getting 1 and still not put his disc in ! That's just daft lol