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to get tax disc will mean they have to show MOT right? So good check that remember to do. i am assuming they need an MOT though.
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and somewhere in the vast legislation is a snippet that Police can MOT their own vehicles......or at least they used to do so many moons ago. Question was whether the Force had a Garage as such and a member of the black hand qualified to do so.
DVD
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Spotted a police van last night, at ASDA next to the Commonwealth Stadium in Manchester, without any disc on show!!
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It was mentioned in the current Car Mechanics auction page - WOMAC, lots of ex-plod cars (and mentioned as purveyors of good butties in HJ's page) that police cars didn't need MOT's, but they were sometimes MOT'd to make them more saleable.
Martin
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One of our best customers are vets.The vans they buy from us have to be re-classified as 'vetenary ambulances' & then get to display a disc £0.00.
Not sure if it still applies, but when the AA/RAC were considered to be 'Privete clubs'.Therefore their larger commercial vehicles, were classed as PLG.So the lower value, rate was applied.Saved a few £$£$£
Best of all, was when we bought a Metro from the MoD.It had a civillian registration & about 10 months tax on it.We wern't able to sell the car & tax, as it was a covert vehicle & not on DVLA computer, even though the disc was genuine, as far as we were concerned.So a new identity had to be created, by them.
& I thought the tax was a bonus, silly me!!
VB
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Military cars and civilian type vehicles ie not tanks, bowsers, large trucks etc, are now leased and look like normal vehicles, with non-military plates and current tax discs. This is a security input as well. Vehicles privately owned by service personnel in Germany used to have a recognisable 'BFG' plate and for security reasons these were changed to normal UK type plates which which issued by a traffic office belonging to the UK military in Germany. They had a selection of rubber stamps so that tax discs appeared to be issued by an assortment of UK DVLA offices, and although they had the right sum of money on them they were issued free and our fuel was only 12p a litre too! And we got cars tax-free and then a 15% discount, wish I was back there most of the time!
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Well I reported it via email to GMP and I just almost had a heart attack when a Chief Inspector called. First thing that goes through your mind, guilt or not, is "What have I done". When he said he was calling with regards my email I felt really bad, almost like a naughty school boy being told off by the headmaster!
I even apologised!
He said not to, as it was an admin oversight, and I was right to because it could have had implications had someone who had been booked for a motoring offence spotted it.
I was really impressed that he had taken the time to call and explain to me.
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