'Off the road'

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Random though I had the other day, does a car on a trailer where the trailer is parked on the road count as the car being off the road, therefore allowing it to be SORN?

If so, then what actually defines being 'off the road'? If you put a car on axle stands so all 4 wheels are off the road, is that off the road? What about just putting a paving slab under each wheel? Or if thats ok, whats to stop you just putting a sheet of paper under each tyre?

Whats defined as off the road?
 
I'm fairly positive a car on a trailer doesn't need to be taxed. Otherwise any transported car, any race car, any new car being delivered on a transporter, etc would all be breaking the law.
 
Scania said:
A vehicle on a trailer is off road, as long - as already said - it's wheels don't touch the ground.
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Ok, so if the wheels off the ground bit is the key, is this off the road (if it was positioned on a road)?

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Vonhelmet said:
The legislation refers to the duty being due on vehicles that are "used or kept on a public road", so you'd be into definitions of what it means to "keep" a vehicle somewhere. There's no definition of what it means to "keep" a vehicle in the legislation, and there's no such definition in the Interpretation Act 1978 either, at which point you fall back to ordinary dictionary definitions.

I find it very hard to believe that putting a car on axle stands, or paving slabs, or anything else of that kind would get you out of a position in which the vehicle is seen as being "kept" on the road. Conceptually, keeping it on a trailer strikes me as different, though, because it's the trailer you're keeping on the road, and the car is part of the trailer's load at that point, rather than a vehicle on the road. I don't think you can make the same distinction with putting the car on paving slabs or whatever.
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Yeah, that was the conclusion I was getting to. If you use a trailer the space on the road is occupied by the trailer, which is allowed to be there, and the car is just on that. Whereas the car just being on the road itself, no matter what its held up with, is the car occupying the space on the road.

I would assume a car in a skip or a car in a container would be ok to be left on the road too, then? :p

Like this guy:

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Just to be clear, I'm not planning on doing this. I do have a SORN car but its parked off the road. It was just some thoughts that popped into my head when I thought about moving it with a trailer.

Im not planning on building a temporary stand out of plywood and perching my car in it on a main road :p
 
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