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Jimmy1983

Jimmy1983

Jimmy1983

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Just opened a letetr from the DVLA requesting a £80 payment as ive not relicensed my scooter. Dated 30th Dec, and my mother thinks this was delivered a couple of days ago(iam now living elsewhere). this is the first news ive heard about it and the letter says 'a payment was recently requested from you for failign to relicense the above vecicle'

Now the vehicle has been off the raod for probably around a year, and it on private propery at my parents. Now Iam sure I send of the SORN documents to say it was of road.

Does anyone know where I stand with this? The only conatct is a payment only number. Iam thinking maybe contact the citizen's advice bureau. If I would have recieved the first letter I would have sorted this out straight away :mad:
 
I'm not sure if there is anything you can do as I know you are meant to receive confirmation within 2 weeks.

But then I know when I sold my car for what ever reason teh driver change never happened and when I got a tax form, I had to write to them stating what i could remember and they took me off it.

Best thing to do is phone dvla up and ask.
 
No point ringing them - you need to SORN it every year, so if you SORN'ed it 'about a year ago' then clearly it has expired - you needed to either re-SORN it or re-license it.

You did neither, now you have a fine.

Pay it and put it down to experience.
 
[TW]Fox;13279343 said:
No point ringing them - you need to SORN it every year, so if you SORN'ed it 'about a year ago' then clearly it has expired - you needed to either re-SORN it or re-license it.

You did neither, now you have a fine.

Pay it and put it down to experience.
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how come my dad has a road legal bike (by this i mean if he were to MOT it then it wouldn't be illegal) in the back of the garage and he has to do absolutely nothing at all to keep it there? no tax, no sorn, no fines? If you know what my dad has done then maybe he can do it with his scooter too?
 
FrostedNipple said:
how come my dad has a road legal bike (by this i mean if he were to MOT it then it wouldn't be illegal) in the back of the garage and he has to do absolutely nothing at all to keep it there? no tax, no sorn, no fines? If you know what my dad has done then maybe he can do it with his scooter too?
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It's been unlicensed since before the SORN rules were brought into effect I would imagine. Certainly under normal circumstances he should SORN it every year or be fined.
 
[TW]Fox;13279602 said:
It's been unlicensed since before the SORN rules were brought into effect I would imagine. Certainly under normal circumstances he should SORN it every year or be fined.
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Exactly. Either it was declared off the road before the new system OR its unknown to the DVLA database and as such isnt flagged up, or the old owner keeps getting the aggro :p

I had an old micro crushed years back and the damn scrappie never did their paperwork properly. I kept getting letters from the dvla and i had to write 3 times to finally get them to understand that i had it CRUSHED, that i had sent off my paperwork and that there was NOTHING i could do anymore. In the end they either chalked it off or the paperwork from the scrappers came though.
 
I can't understand why you would need to keep telling them every year that it is still off the road. I can't see any benefits other than punishing the innocent people that don't know with a fine.
 
FrostedNipple said:
I can't understand why you would need to keep telling them every year that it is still off the road. I can't see any benefits other than punishing the innocent people that don't know with a fine.
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Yes, no reason other than it would mean people could technically get away with never taxing a vehicle by claiming it SORN.
 
I used to work in VCS about 3 years ago so dunno if stuff has changed since then..

But it seems you have been fined for either not renewing your SORN, even if you have not had a reminder the dvla will say its your own responsibility to renew.

Either that or you say you have now changed address, but the fine went to your old address, they may have fined you for not notifying them of your new address but I imagine its the first reason.
 
FrostedNipple said:
I can't understand why you would need to keep telling them every year that it is still off the road. I can't see any benefits other than punishing the innocent people that don't know with a fine.
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I am almost certain that it will say on the SORN declaration that it is your responsibility to renew it on a yearly basis as well as the fact that you should receive a new reminder each year. Therefore there is really no argument for not knowing it needed to be done. I personally think the tighter rules are better and the use if numberplate recognition can only help to reduce the number of untaxed and usually uninsured drivers on the road.
 
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