Trade Plates

[mustard]

Question for the Resident BIB..

I seem to recall you are allowed to move an unlicensed or new vehicle with out the use of Trade plates a short distance, could one of you be kind enough to advise me that distance.

Edited to say we are trade plate holders, but often move vehicles a few yards down the road



TIA

>>> Edited by mustard on Wednesday 30th June 11:13

[cptsideways]

To a DVLA inspection, Prebooked MOT & place of repair but it must be insured

Etided cos mt spelin is carp again

>> Edited by cptsideways on Wednesday 30th June 17:05

[Tonyrec]

cptsideways said:

To a DVLA inspection, Prebboked MOT & place of repair but it must be insured

Correct.

[fast westfield]

And prebooked SVA for kit cars.

[mustard]

Tonyrec said:

cptsideways said: To a DVLA inspection, Prebboked MOT & place of repair but it must be insured Correct.

Yep I know that, But I'm sure there is a short distance (only few hundred yards or metres) to cater for unloading etc

[Dwight VanDriver]

Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 covers vehicle Excise duty and it is explicit at Section 1 that duty will be charged on every mpv which is used or kept on a public road.

Section 5 states that there are certain vehicles/cla
sses that are exempt as listed under Schedule 2.

Sect 7 onwards deals with Trade Plate to cover non Licence by Motor Trader/testers.

No exemption for what is outlined is apparent in the Act at Sched 2. Only one mentioned is vehicles used for agriculture/horticulture and forestry passing between land where distance does not exceed 1.5 km.

In fact it seems in pure law, dropping off vehicles on delivery to Garages on the road without Trade Plate is an offence of no Excise Licence, fail to display and also Insurance is required. Having said that I feel sure that the sytem is not that draconian that any action would taken, but it could be.

DVD

[Balmoral Green]

Or the situation where the dealer has one set of trade plates and three cars to move, so lead car has the front plate, middle car nowt, and the tail car the rear plate. Illegal of course, but somehow it felt as if we were right in spirit at least.