driving without tax disc displayed

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builder22

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my tax disc runs out tomorrow, i have only just ordered it online so it won't arrive for a few days
is it legal to drive with the old tax disc until the new one arrives ?
 
I'm fairly certain there is something online that when your order it that states it's OK to drive until your new tax disc arrives, so long as you completed the payment process.
 
dfarrall said:
As long as you have one ordered online I believe there is a grace period for it to arrive.
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This. so long as you ordered it before the last one ran out, you have 5 or 7 days grace (can't remember which)

If you didn't order it until after it ran out, there is no grace period.
 
You have a grace period if you've ordered it online. Everything is stored in a database anyway so the police would be able to see you've paid for it :).
 
If you order it online before it runs out, you get 5 days grace with the old tax disk. If you order is after it has run out, you get no days grace.
 
As long as you have processed it online and it's in the post, you're able to explain that too them, they can check and find out regardless.
 
l0wther said:
You have a grace period if you've ordered it online. Everything is stored in a database anyway so the police would be able to see you've paid for it :).
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you would imagine this is the case- I had to fight a fixed penalty for non-display when I had ordered my tax disc online and it never arrived in time, I had to provide the reciepts for payments and confirmation emails etc from the dvla - rather than the police actually bothering to check anything

(that was with the out of date one still on the car btw)
 
I got mine today and as its for a bike I'm going to photocopy it at work and display that one. The real one will be in my wallet.

£76, what a rip off.

I don't know why we need to display them nowadays, it's not like we have to have our insurance and licence on display in the car/bike. They're all on the database.
 
the_r_sole said:
you would imagine this is the case- I had to fight a fixed penalty for non-display when I had ordered my tax disc online and it never arrived in time, I had to provide the reciepts for payments and confirmation emails etc from the dvla - rather than the police actually bothering to check anything

(that was with the out of date one still on the car btw)
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Its not that they didn't bother to check, it is that the systems take a little time to update. In this day and age it should be instant but sadly it's not.
 
Displaying a photocopied tax disk is an offence.

Anyway back to OP. You will be fine. Print out the confirmation from the web and keep it in the car to show if you get pulled up and try to avoid parking on streets that have traffic wardens as they will report you and you may get clamped or towed but cant see that happeing if its a couple of days out.
 
Should be alright given that the electronic checks will come back with the same details as the "disc" on display and if you've got the real one on hand. Probably depends on how much of a jobsworth the person checking is really
 
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