Dvla Fiasco

[Robbbbo]

Like many people I could not renew my car tax online yesterday, so I went to a Post Office instead. Did it there no problem.
Looked on the DVLA website today ( it was working ), and my car is showing as not taxed. A little down the page it says it can take up five days for the records to be updated. So we are now in the same situation as insurance, where it can also take a while to update.
So I will be keeping the receipt in the glove box. The police can and will take your car / bike off you if their ANPR shows your vehicle has no tax / insurance.

[boxtops]

Why is that a fiasco? No different from doing it at a PO normally.....

[Robbbbo]

The fiasco is that surely DVLA knew beforehand that their website would be busy, don't most people renew their car tax at the last possible moment ? I know I do.

[boxtops]

Well, only 1/12 of us have to do it in any month! I do mine about 10 days beforehand, I must admit - it doesn't cost you any more if you do it then. I don't know why everyone left it until the last minute.

[tonyav]

Taxed mine 3 weeks ago.

[Hopkirk]

They will take the car off you for no insurance, I agree.

However they won't for no tax.

[Jomlett]

We used to write on the expired tax disc: Tax in Post. Robbbbo leads the way now having to write Tax in Glove Box!

[douglas9401]

It's change for the sake of change, a chancer's charter and whatever money is 'saved' on paper, printing and postage will soon disappear in IT costs.
Remember, it's the British Government we're dealing with here. Fingers in their ears and shouting lalalala when questions or criticisms arise.
These are the same people who buy carriers without aircraft and have only a vague idea of who comes and goes across the border.

[SpikeyBush]

I wonder if a vehicle is seized because out of date information was given to Plod and you didn't have the receipt with you to prove your case at the side of the road, would the towing and storage charges be waived or refunded? What about your taxi or train fare if you happened to be 70 miles from home at the time? I think this is perhaps a rhetorical question.

[hc4361]

I taxed my car online today without fuss and printed a copy of the acknowledgement which I shall keep in my glove box. No biggie.

[SpikeyBush]

lots of people don't have a printer, or they may have one but it is out of ink