DVLA in ED

[Ultraconsultancy]

DVLA are out and about in the steets off LL checking road tax discs, clamping vehicles that are out of date.

[jimbo1964]

There was a car clamped in our road last week by the congestion charge people.

[macroban]

Good news.

I hope they are doing car insurance data matching too.

[*Bob*]

Ooer.. just gotta pop out - back in 20.

[Ultraconsultancy]

macroban - yes there did seem to be some clipboard cross checking going on.

[Rockets]

They do that every month - I got done some months ago and was on a business trip abroad and they were so inflexible. I pointed out to them that what they should be doing is doing something about the hundreds of unlicensed, untaxed, uninsured mini-cabs that tout around central london at night rather than clamping folks who forget to renew their tax disc!!

A 200 quid release fee and a further 82 pound fine is a nice little earner for them and an expensive lesson for me! ;-)

[Otto]

yes...car clamped on our street today...the disk had expired in december...

[lozzyloz]

These days you renew your car tax on-line and get sent a reminder from the DVLA before it expires. How can you forget?

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I think the reason they clamp down on tax discs is because that is how they catch the people who drive around unisured and with un-MOT-able cars.

[kford]

Bring it on - these are the people who crash into us, and the reason why us safe drivers are being clobbered by draconian speedhumps, distracting speed cameras and high insurance.

[Rockets]

Profitable sledge-hammer to crush wrong nuts me thinks!

According to the guy at DVLA I spoke to they do not send reminders anymore - it's your responsibility to do tax discs it. Funny how that stopped at the same time they started clamping people!!!

Interesting that despite the extra vigilence on the wild, dangerous streets of East Dulwich you still get pestered by unlicensed cabs in the wee hours of the night in central London!!! ;-) Two more cars done on my street - lucky buggers - two weeks of not getting round to something is an expensive business nowadays and if you don't pay the fine in three days they lift your car and crush it - MOT and insurance or not!!

It's funny how many of these dangerous untaxed drivers seem to drive the smarter cars in the neighborhood!

Apparently they note down the date of expiry of cars on the street and return to the area if it is going to profitable!

You have been warned!!

[Michael Palaeologus]

My experience supports Lozzie - you get a reminder and can buy on line.

[blinder999]

As I was cycling through Kensington recently, I saw traffic wardens lifting a beautiful new Maserati onto the flatbed. i wonder if they crushed that.

[Only me!]

In an ED street where parking is always a pain & at times actually impossible (any time after 20.00 it's next street at best, sometimes even further away!) So from this angle I really don't have a problem with fines for illegal cars & removal of dumped ones.

However the chaps doing so do sometimes behave with little or no Common Sense.

I am aware of a Mother receiving a ticket for double parking, while actually in the process of lifting her child out of the back seat!

Pay peanuts, get Monkeys. I guess.

[LostThePlot]

Only me! Wrote:

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> > I am aware of a Mother receiving a ticket for

> double parking, while actually in the process of

> lifting her child out of the back seat!

So she was parked then...

[Michael Palaeologus]

Double parked yet. I have sympathy of busy mothers - but dont break the law. I wouldnt get away with it, why should they?