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Law Enforcement Fun
Had a visit from the Number Plate Enforcement Officer today to check I’ve been doing my paperwork correctly. 😕
Apparently over the next month or so the Crime Reduction Group at the DVLA are going to be stamping down on show plates and threatening to prosecute anyone who supplies a show plate that ends up on the road. 😮
I was under the impression that if a plate is sold as a show plate, and is clearly marked as illegal for road use, the owness is put upon the person you’ve sold the plate to. Am I missing something here?
Cheers, Dewi
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i thought the same as you Dewi
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I would’ve turfed him out of the shop (:) (:)
Since when did the DVLA suddenly gain the powers to visit signmakers and inspect their paperwork.
Seriously – I think he must’ve been a con man – if not, and he really is some sort of inspector working on behalf of the DVLA, he has no right to any information about your business.
Send him round here and I’ll chuck him out 😀
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Apparently Phill, I have to show my paperwork to both the DVLA or the police upon request (providing I’m shown I.D.)
It was a lady who came in and she did have I.D. but I just wasn’t expecting it. Came out with my usual goofy grin and she waved a card under my nose 😕
The joys of being a number plate maker eh! :lol1:
Cheers, Dewi
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As if the taxpayers money isn’t already wasted enough with bureaucracy in this country.
I once had a trading standards officer call in asking me how I go about pricing signs. I told him I considered that to be privileged information – sensitive to my business. I also told him that no one had any right to tell me how much I should charge for signs as I needed to run my business in such a way for it to remain viable. Seriously!!
He went away with his tail between his legs.
I’ve got no time for busybody interference from jumped up officials – and it’s getting worse. Why do you think the unemployment figures have dropped in this country? They’re all now employed by local government or on incapacity benefit.
Next they’ll be telling us we can’t smoke in this country if we want to (not that I am a smoker – I’m not – but I reserve the right to smoke if I want to)
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quote rightsigns:Next they’ll be telling us we can’t smoke in this country if we want to (not that I am a smoker – I’m not – but I reserve the right to smoke if I want to)
Already happening Phill. There are schemes on the go at the moment in major cities banning smoking from public places, as well as a proposed bill to ban smoking completely from pubs (well the pubs that serve food, but thats a large proportion of pubs)
I agree, there is too much bureaucracy, there seems to be ppl checking on ppl who are checking on ppl who don’t need to be checked. Puzzles me with this number plate business though, how do they intend to enforce this ban on show plates (if they really are doing that) when there is such a huge market surrounding it?
Cheers, Dewi
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i guess they were fed up with sitting in lay-bys pulling people for doing 32mph and whackin them with a juicy fine
id tell em to s-d off and do somin useful
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they would be better off spending time cracking down on vehicle with no tax or insurance…
i can understand not wanting shops to provide numberplates for ringer or clonned cars,
but 95% of show plates end up on novas or the like.I`ve got show plates on my van, didn`t stop the cameras snapping me doing 42mph on a sunday morning at 5.30am. £60 fine and 3 points..
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yep i can see it now ….”DVLA officer in freak plotter accident “
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Hmmmm strange for her to just turn up Dewi ……. perhaps it could be a case of them recieving a call from a competitor perhaps blabbling a few incorrect things their way …. enough for them to come and check you out??
Carrie 😀 …. suspicious mind … don’t trust anyone :dance4:
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Undoubtedly Carrie, but she said while she was in town she was going to check every other registered number plate maker (oogle) Seems if someone wanted me to be scrutinised, they also find themselves in the same position 🙄
It amazed me at one point, as she actually said that the ghosted images in the backgrounds of plates mean that cameras cannot pickup the actual numbers/letters on the plate. Is that true? I had a ghosted plate, and I still managed, like Becky, to get a nice £60 demand and 3 points on my license.
Cheers, Dewi
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Amazing ain’t it, its cos you are easy to find Dewi mate cos you registered and do it legally, expect the cops to find a burglar or stop the dozens (around here) of immigrants, east europeans, turks, kurds, afghans, iragis etc driving with no license, tax, mot, insurance and its “manpower issues” just make sure if you have an accident in Lincolnshire you sit on the b’stard till the plod arrive, as my mate had to do. 👿
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Dewi,
I have never heard of a DVLA enforcement officer.
I have had vehicles built in the past from more than one vehicle (legally) and each time I have registered the local police Vehicle officer has come around, with a badge and a uniform and a police car, to carry out a vehicle examination.I would suggest, even if this person does exist and was legally carrying out their duty, that you contact your local police and inform them.
Just in case you were visted by a bogus official. Better still, to save your time, write them a letter of complaint and post it to the Superintentndent of the Biggest Lincolnshire Police station from where the incident took place. -
K, done as you said, rang the local police. After a bit of fuss, they’ve confirmed there is a Crime Reduction Group as part of the DVLA, and the local office for me is in Leeds. That tallys with the card she gave me, 42 Eastgate, Leeds. They also confirmed that the DVLA have the right to do spot checks as well as the police, but its not something they do routinely.
Puzzles me that I’m the only one to have had a visit from them though 😕 Has no-one else ever had a visit?? I think I just have one of those faces that authorities want to check on 😮 Either that or my local competition really don’t want me doing number plates any more! :lol1:
Cheers, Dewi
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Well at least you have piece of mind that the people exist.
All you have to do now is make more number plates 😀 -
Dewi
I would like to speak to you privatly on this issue but my ability to send pm’s seems to have disappeared :-?:-?:-? Could you please mail me your e mail address to info@signdevil.com
Cheers 😉
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Must be your dark past Dewi 😉
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