DannyB
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378219/Drivers-dont-renew-insurance-time-face-having-car-clamped.html
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3CorsaMeal
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i love the daily mail, its a fantastic paper.
the amount of things they say we "could face"
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Steve
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The new system, called continuous insurance enforcement, goes fully live in June
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pow
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DAILY FAIL
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DannyB
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 This has been talked about for months now, did you miss the bit where it says it goes live in June?
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3CorsaMeal
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i always pay insurance anyway so won't affect me
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nathy_87
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Ok, so what happens when you've SORN your car, you can't insure it then? Also as soon as I'd see one of those bastards near my car i'd make sure he didn't finish the job.
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DannyB
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http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/Motorinsurance/DG_067639
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3CorsaMeal
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i would just leave the engine running all the time tbh
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Norcy91
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So what about cars that aren't taxed or insurance, but are only ever driven on private property and never see the road? Surely they can't go round clamping them as well?
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JM_16v
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Originally posted by Norcy91
So what about cars that aren't taxed or insurance, but are only ever driven on private property and never see the road? Surely they can't go round clamping them as well?
indeed its floored i cant see them clamping trackday cars and stock cars on peoples trailors
its going to be the scum that get continously spotted by cameras
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Steve
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just sorn them job done
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Mertin
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Their only doing it to cars that aren't SORN'd
So track day cars and cars used on private land should have a sorn
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DaveyLC
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Traders will no longer be able to use the trade policy blag the cars will have to be SORNd and displaying trade plates on the road.
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Christopher
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Does this mean cheaper insurance in the near future? :O
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corsagsigav
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Doubtful i always thought that insurance went up due to the high levels of joyriders . i know round my parts it been ages since i have seen a burnt out car , or heard of joyriders . But insurance its getting out of hand same as fuel costs they know to be on the road you need them . so may aswell have the right to print money as it was . it all needs to regulated if you ask me
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Matty W
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Problem solved
[Edited on 19-04-2011 by music1990]
[Edited on 19-04-2011 by music1990]
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Jambo
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Originally posted by Christopher
Does this mean cheaper insurance in the near future? :O
It means people who honestly kept their cars off road but uninsured will be penalised and innocents harrassed.
Whilst the people who dont give a fuck will carry on not giving a fuck and still drive with no insurance.
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Root
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This will be hilarious, the amount of DVLA / DSV workers trying to enforce this and ending up in A&E..
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emicen
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Originally posted by Jambo
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Originally posted by Christopher
Does this mean cheaper insurance in the near future? :O
It means people who honestly kept their cars off road but uninsured will be penalised and innocents harrassed.
Whilst the people who dont give a fuck will carry on not giving a fuck and still drive with no insurance.
Why would you honestly keep it off road with no insurance but taxed apart from knowing you're a damn sight more likely to get spotted with no tax than no insurance when using it illegally?
SORN takes 2mins to do online. Seems to me like they're finally attacking the issue from both sides but worryingly are going to have to apply some pragmatism.
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Jambo
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Because it may be something that is temporarily uninsured?
My Jeep was on my drive uninsured for a few weeks, it was taxed just not insuraed. I didnt drive it. Make me a criminal?
The idea is of good faith, i just dont think its practical nor will it stop anyone driving with no insurance. I call it clutching at straws in the numbers game.
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oceansoul
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
My Jeep was on my drive uninsured for a few weeks, it was taxed just not insuraed. I didnt drive it. Make me a criminal?
Yes. You killed 4 children by not driving your car 
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emicen
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Registered: 26th Jul 10
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
Because it may be something that is temporarily uninsured?
My Jeep was on my drive uninsured for a few weeks, it was taxed just not insuraed. I didnt drive it. Make me a criminal?
The idea is of good faith, i just dont think its practical nor will it stop anyone driving with no insurance. I call it clutching at straws in the numbers game.
You're not thinking like the people this targets.
Buy car, insure, tax. Cancel insurance returning the grand or so it cost and drive for the next 11 months knowing no cop/warden passing the car will ping it has no tax. Repeat annually.
If we were like the Irish and had tax and insurance discs, would be a lot harder to get away with.
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Jambo
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That i agree with.
The system to check if you haveinsurance will probably be the same system that nearly got me sent to court for driving with no insurance because the Police wouldnt beleive me because their system said i had none.
Tax/insurance discs im all for tbh
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emicen
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Registered: 26th Jul 10
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Yep, once again the law abiding majority get to suffer and jump through more hoops for them to, probably quite ineffectively, clamp down on the minority arseholes.
When really how hard would it be to overhaul the system and introduce insurance discs? Cancel insurance, return disc, just like when cashing in your tax declaring sorn. The New emicen Party: Sensible policies for a brighter Britain...
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