Road Tax question - SORN but needing to drive for MOT

[YRRunner]

My SORN'd car has an expired MOT which prevents me from taxing. I need to get it to the MOT garage for an MOT. My nearest MOT place is a couple of junctions down a motorway. With the amount of ANPR cams everywhere, am I at risk of getting into trouble for driving an un taxed vehicle, even though it is to the MOT station and back. Presumably electronic cops automatically send out penalty notices now, which don't take my circumstances into account. It's not like the old days when you just stuck a bit of paper on the windscreen saying "tax applied for" lol :haha:
Can someone advise? Many thanks.

[jagracer]

Make sure it's booked for an MOT and drive it to the appointment. If it passes you could tax it online or at a local post office. If it fails you are permitted to drive it home again providing it is roadworthy.

[spats]

I thought as long as you have prebooked your MOT, have suitable insurance and the MOT station is a reasonable distance away that you were ok to do the journey there and back.

Of course if your car is clearly not going to pass an mot then you shouldn't be driving it in the first place so if they do pull you over and find all the tyres are bald, theres no floor left and you've got HIDs fitted, expect a large book being thrown at your general vicinity.

[YRRunner]

No, the car is in top condition, new winter tyres etc., I was just more worried about the robot cops ANPR, the ones you can't talk to and explain the situation. MOT booked BTW.

[Antony Moxey]

Presumably it's still the case that you can drive an untaxed car to and from a pre-booked MOT, so long as you have valid insurance. I did it years ago when I had my kit car MOTed just before I SVAd it, then drove it there and back too - got some weird looks driving a car with no number plates!

[aw51 121565]

YRRunner said:

... I was just more worried about the robot cops ANPR, the ones you can't talk to and explain the situation. MOT booked BTW.

You can explain in court and show your evidence of the MoT having been booked beforehand and using this as your legitimate defence - not that it would get that far (you might get to see the inside of the waiting room with the DVLA 'prosecutor' staring balefully at you all morning before he/she/it says "no case to answer" as you are both called in, though ) .

Not an issue in the longer term (and I suspect you're giving fixed ANPR enforcement rather too much credit as well) .

[anonymous-user]

spats said:

I thought as long as you have prebooked your MOT, have suitable insurance and the MOT station is a reasonable distance away that you were ok to do the journey there and back.

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Urban myth. The MoT station can be any distance away.