lacroupade
Veteran
Not content with bringing in this new Big Brother system where, if you forget to re-SORN a vehicle after the initial 12-month period expires, you get fined and risk even having the vehicle (which could be parked in a field surrounded by six months of weed growth like mine LOL!) confiscated, the government has added a new twist.
Now you used to be able to add a vehicle temporarily to your policy for a reasonable charge - normally valid for 30 days and renewable (with Direct Line anyway) twice, taking you up to 90 days potential cover if you required it - thus if the vehicle had been SORN'd, you could tax it and make it legal for a buyer to test drive.
The temporary cover thing is still possible, but what you cannot do any longer it seems, is tax that vehicle on the back of that insurance. Apparently the DVLA has regulated that in such circumstances, the vehicle must now be the subject of a continuous new full insurance policy in its own right with the extra cost, lack of NCB and hassle that creates. Hardly guaranteed to persuade someone to dispose properly of a SORN'd vehicle....
I'm all for a bit of control, but I don't think this kind of civil service committee-developed legislation improves things at all and anyway, a lot of this is to avoid having to put police on the roads where they could be preventing the current massive increase in piss-poor driving that has resulted from their absence, and up the fine revenues in the process - double whammy and a Christmas bonus for some poxy civil servant somewhere.
Its all heading for a guilty-til-proven-innocent culture of "failure to register at all times your physical existence/location, or that of certain specified assets, will result in immediate punishment by molecular disintegration" - using the chip that will soon be embedded in all new-born children......
...and that, folks, was my 3000th post. :trampoline: :roundel: :flyboyaj: :cheers: :friends:
ldman:
Now you used to be able to add a vehicle temporarily to your policy for a reasonable charge - normally valid for 30 days and renewable (with Direct Line anyway) twice, taking you up to 90 days potential cover if you required it - thus if the vehicle had been SORN'd, you could tax it and make it legal for a buyer to test drive.
The temporary cover thing is still possible, but what you cannot do any longer it seems, is tax that vehicle on the back of that insurance. Apparently the DVLA has regulated that in such circumstances, the vehicle must now be the subject of a continuous new full insurance policy in its own right with the extra cost, lack of NCB and hassle that creates. Hardly guaranteed to persuade someone to dispose properly of a SORN'd vehicle....
I'm all for a bit of control, but I don't think this kind of civil service committee-developed legislation improves things at all and anyway, a lot of this is to avoid having to put police on the roads where they could be preventing the current massive increase in piss-poor driving that has resulted from their absence, and up the fine revenues in the process - double whammy and a Christmas bonus for some poxy civil servant somewhere.
Its all heading for a guilty-til-proven-innocent culture of "failure to register at all times your physical existence/location, or that of certain specified assets, will result in immediate punishment by molecular disintegration" - using the chip that will soon be embedded in all new-born children......
...and that, folks, was my 3000th post. :trampoline: :roundel: :flyboyaj: :cheers: :friends:
ldman:
