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[JamesV6CDX]

In Scotland then, can you arrest and take to custody for driving without tax?

We just issue a form, and let DVLA sort it as a civil matter...

Form CLE2/5s.  No arrest.
No tax is usually your starter for 10 for no insurance as well, if you did deep enough....

enough already...  dont drive the car without docs as a nicking will really p!ss on your Special campfire....  

I have no intention at all of driving without Docs. If (despite the fact the vehicle is comprehensively insured) I can't tax it yet, then it will just have to wait  

I'm purely just interested in the differences between Scotland and E/Wales, based on what I've seen here  

[Darth Loo-knee]

No wait until the 6th  

[Ken T]

Is it currently SORN'd ?. It would be a pain if you got a fine because of that.

The whole thing is a nightmare. When they said road fund was going to go up, and my current  tax finished the month after, I was trying to work out how to cancel my existing tax a month early and get a new disc, without having it on the road untaxed, eg the tax would have been paid, but I might not have had the disc to display.  

Ken

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Is it currently SORN'd ?. It would be a pain if you got a fine because of that.

The whole thing is a nightmare. When they said road fund was going to go up, and my current  tax finished the month after, I was trying to work out how to cancel my existing tax a month early and get a new disc, without having it on the road untaxed, eg the tax would have been paid, but I might not have had the disc to display.  

Ken

That's a very valid point Ken; you mean that at the end of December, like NOW, DVLA will expect to see the vehicle taxed, if not SORN'd, and could issue an automatic penalty before James taxes it on the 6th.

Indeed the DVLA are far more vigilant now than the old days when you could leave taxing a week or two if funds were low and get away with it.  With technology now centrally at DVLA, and of course in Traffic Police cars, they are right on top of who is taxed and who is not at any given time!  They are apparently pushing out £80 penalty notices very quickly!

[Ken T]

James did say its insured on Daysure. What are the restrictions in insurance for road fund ?. Does it have to last for a certain period of time?. Theroretically if James went in with a Daysure certificate, at the time of application, the vehicle is insured, so he should be able to get his road fund disc. I know in the past we have been able to get insurance with only a 30 day cover note. They used to want to see the policy doc, not a photocopy, but I think they go by being told by their computer that its insured, so if Daysure have logged this fact then it should work......... Shouldn't it ??          

Blumin' computers, far better off wit out 'em  

Ken