Road Fund Licence

[whiskeryron]

Because of the enormouse amount of drivers not having road tax licences & the difficulty of catching them, do A/Bers think it would be an idea to scrap the R.F.L. altogether & add the tax to fuel, so that everybody who uses the road would be paying ? You could have a scheme whereby transport operators & others who rely on transport for business could claim fees back from the govenment. Ron.

[R1Geezer]

yes bednobs, I can see no logical reason for having an actual disc.

[dzug2]

<<. This is the only country I know of that allows illegal plates to be made (for 'show' purposes) and does little or nothing about clamping down on it. On regular trips through stretches of the M25 littered with 50mph cameras I get passed by cars with 'personalised' i.e. unreadable, plates.
Don't suppose it will happen while the DVLC and private companies take several pages in The Sunday Times to sell them.>>

Personalised and 'unreadable' plates are different things.

Personalised is where you choose your own number - a nice revenue earner here and in other countries (eg most US States). And quite rightly, why shouldn't we get revenue from those idiot enough to think it's a good idea.

Unreadable is where you choose to display that number (or a normal number) in italic type or the like. Illegal, occasionally enforced with wails of why don't you go after real criminals from those caught.

[Playbill]

dzug2. It is the unreadable ones that I am referring to. It has often been stated that plates with unusual fonts, wrong sizes, bolts to alter characters and such like cannot be read by these camaras.
All US plates I have seen have been of the same size and with the same typeface - at least, statewide. They may not follow the standard letter and number configuration, but are all readable.
The same applies to the plates of every European country I have seen.
Only here are people obsessed with having a 'different' numberplate.

[stoofur]

What if they put the duties on fuel. Then each petrol station has ANPR cameras. If your car flags as no insurance or no MOT then no petrol would be dispensed.

[R1Geezer]

playbill: There are rules about typeface/spacing/size etc here too playbill, some choose to flout them. Plod occasionally has a clamp down but mostly they don't.

[McMouse]

Current system is fine. Any vehicle found without valid RFL, insurance or non-complying registration plate should be confiscated. Sorted.