when you don't have a disc in the window anymore it could have been a genuine error. I genuinely thought one of my cars was MOT'd, it was only when I wanted to tax it earlier this year, that I realised its MOT had run out about 10 months previously.
I agree.......and still have a tax disc.
Car tax dodgers and the loss of revenue are far more common since the demise of the tax disc.
Once more Opti some of this increase in evasion, and other motoring offences, is down to the severe cuts in traffic police officers out there in patrol cars. 30% down in the last 5 years, and any of us who remember the great days of driving great distances regularly can recall how many patrol cars were on patrol or sitting at the side of the road. You can now travel considerable distances without seeing any patrol cars, or maybe one of two if you are lucky, when in the past you would pass a dozen!
The rise in crime, which once again is the worst in the Country down here in the Kent Police area, is also down to the terrible cuts in officer numbers. Tackling crime is in crisis and until extra funding is found for REAL increases in police resource, it will continue to be so. In public few senior officers will admit that, but in private that is what is actually being said.
The massive increase in ANPR cameras, and in the case of the DVLA with their electronically equipped vans coupled with central computerisation that the police can tap into, is a great advancement, but without the extra traffic officers required rates of evasion will continue to rise. Those who drive unlicensed, untaxed, non-MOT'd, unregistered vehicles without valid driving licences and giving fictitious addresses will never be caught with cameras alone. It requires the physical presence of traffic officers to stop them