Do the DVLA ever send the Police out to check?

kefkef · 10 Feb 2011 at 10:46

Is the car visible from the road so that when driving past it flagged the ANPR stuff in the police car? That would likely flash up as an untaxed/non-SORN (and uninsured?) car so they may then have turned round and stopped for a closer look.

clv101 · 10 Feb 2011 at 10:47

Iceman said:
If its not sorn is that not an offence? i thought if it wasn't taxed then it had to be declared sorn?

If that's the case, why don't the DVLA automatically SORN a vehicle the day the tax expires?

ShakenNstirred · 11 Feb 2011 at 18:09

Overlag said:
every year someone comes around to check our Sorn car is off the road. Not police though.

wow never heard of that happening
i have had a bike sorned since 2001 and a car since 2007 , they have never been to check

rypt · 11 Feb 2011 at 18:21

chances of that being due to DVLA are slim to none, I had my car fully taxed and yet untaxed according to the DVLA computer for a full month before, didn't even get stopped by any coppers.

* somehow their computer system managed to give me 1 month less tax than it should have, my tax disc was correct but their system had it down as expiring a month earlier but it never sent me a reminder???

Lopéz · 11 Feb 2011 at 18:26

ShakenNstirred said:
wow never heard of that happening
i have had a bike sorned since 2001 and a car since 2007 , they have never been to check

Nor me, I have been SORNing cars since SORN began.

Batf1nk · 12 Feb 2011 at 01:46

I wouldn't worry about the copper but I would expect a £40 fine through the post sometime soon!