Saw an interesting post on the Motley Fool today:
Ring up the DVLA and tell them you have no fixed abode. They will then try and get you to give a forwarding address for your vehicle, this of course you refuse, as you move around a lot. They are then forced to issue your vehicle with a special log book, noted no fix abode etc.Why would you do that, well the DVLA etc is only interested in easy prey, i.e. you mortgage payers who can be hounded off the planet by bailiffs. The minute you get one of these special log books, most speed camera fines, parking fines, road tax reminders go straight into the DVLA/Scamera partnership/police shredder, your too difficult to chase up.
I found this out when I ask a plod friend of mine why the burger van on the way to work was able to evade taxing his car. He said ring the DVLA and ask them, I did, this is what they told me
This sounds like a great when you're in the middle of changing your address on everything as I am right now, but it's not very practical, of course.. :)
It is 4.30AM here in NYC (where I'm working on my book for a month), and I'm high on some "Merlot and Blackberry drink" which I can only describe as lethal Ribena-champagne. So I may not be at my acutest. But precisely why is this ruse "not very practical"? I have to add that I (unlike my darling libertarian ex-girlfriend who'd rant against everything from bus-lanes to council tax) rather approve of paying my road-tax, especially since I now drive a Toyota Prius which is taxed more cheaply. BUT I want to declare war on the allocators of parking fines where'er they be in our fine land. Over the years, being a poor judge of time (hence the tickets for overdue parking) and a poor doer-of-boring-admin (hence letting them grow) I have paid about three times more in parking fines than on my vehicles (save the current Prius). Therefore I rather like the idea of using this ruse if it's not overly incovenient in other ways. For one thing, do DVLA cross-check driver and vehicle-licensee details? i.e. I wonder if one can be registered as a driver at one's home address while getting away with being "of no fixed abode" for one's vehicle registration. Food for procrastinatory thought, perhaps better devoted to paying fines on time, but hell....
Incidentally I found this posting of yours while googling for something completely different ("uk email-to-sms", where you come up as the number two result), which led me to your great blog, which led me to this fine posting (and thence to the Motley Fool original).
Long may you thrive.
PD x
Posted by: Palash Davé at December 8, 2005 09:39 AMReturn to the homepage.
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