OT - tax disc holder

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On 03/10/2014 17:56, "Nightjar

[Jabba]

Bill Wright wrote

If it's not perforated, it might be worth something in 20 years...

[Jabba]

bert wrote

Pikeys have been cloning number plates for over a decade.

[Bob Eager]

A lot of employers provide parking permits in that format. Mine does (and supplies a useless holder).

[0845.86.86.888]

Peeled mine off this morning and stuck it in the glove box... something to show the grand kids if we ever have any... :)

[bert]

Will they fit them for you for a small fee?

[cl]

I haven't displayed the tax disk on my motorbike for at least ten years and probably quite a bit longer than that. It has never caused any issues with the police.

Our car still has its tax disk displayed though.

[F Murtz]

Would not NPR sort that out?

[Clive George]

Pick another similar car (make, colour) and who's to tell?

If they had enough ANPR cameras around and some suitable data mining software they could work out when there are duplicates (car X being seen by two cameras 50 miles apart within 10 minutes) and flag for pulling over, but that would require coordination between lots of different departments, so would probably be pretty unlikely.

[Andrew Gabriel]

About 20 years ago, I got a letter from DVLA telling me someone had cloned my car's identity, and warning it might be in preparation for another crime. I never heard anymore about it, and the person didn't seem to rack up any parking or speeding fines. I did keep the letter though, in case I did get any letters from car park operators or the like.

There have been ANPR cameras on all the major traffic lights around here for last couple of years.

[dennis]

They have enough to do that. If they are stupid they get a parking fine and then the dvla knows about the duplicate and it can be flagged within a few weeks.

[Brian Gaff]

This no disc seems a strange way to proceed. If as we are all told, there are many untaxed and uninsured people on the roads, a member of the public could easily look at a vehicle and tell the authorities if it was expired. Now however how would anyone know?

Brian

[Adrian]

A tax disc didn't tell you anything about whether a car was insured anyway.

[Andy Burns]

One camera parked near a busy road can catch more evaders than a busy-body.

[Peter Crosland]

On 03/10/2014 17:56, "Nightjar

[Bob Henson]

I bought one as a joke present for SWMBO last year, which she is now threatening to use now she doesn't have to trap the paper licence in it. It's only plastic, and round the rim is printed "Yes I have paid my Tax. Now go fix some f****** potholes". I noticed they're still for sale on E-bay.

[news]

The DVLA website will tell you (when it works- it doesn't seem to be working this morning) tax and MOT status given a reg number and car make

[The Medway Handyman]

The Police can interrogate the ANPR database. MY SIL does frequently in order to track down scroats who don't appear in court. It enables him to track journey patterns and times, so they just wait in the right place.

In Kent in 2010, the ANPR system 'read' over 220,000,000 plates and 'hit' on 560,000 that weren't taxed or insured.

Drugs/serious crime/immigration squads etc can have a particular plate flagged so they get a report every time it is 'read'.

[Jabba]

F Murtz wrote

Depends on how the plates are being used. Around here pikeys steal number plates to steal fuel from self-serve garages. They take them off immediately after they've been used.

[Jabba]

Clive George wrote

Ah - epic fail, since when have our police done joined up thinking.