LONG RANT WARNING *
Your vehicle might get impounded by police.
If your vehicle insurance is not on police national computer police has the right to (and oh do they excercise it) to impound your vehicle. Even if that same computer says that you don't have a road tax, and you quite obviously have road tax on the windscreen police will not ring your insurance to confirm details.
Questioned how would you get 20 days old tax disc without valid insurance, the reply is equaly amusing ; ' Well, you could of had that at the time of issuing tax disc but you may cancelled it afterwards'. Benefit of doubt ? If 'computer is wrong' on tax disc can it be wrong on insurance ? 'No, database of road tax may be OUT OF DATE, but insurance DB is ALWAYS correct' !!!
I suppose its much easier to tow the vehicle, get you producer and get you to waste your time getting all the documents to prove that you actually do have it all. Oh and don't even think of showing without having both parts of your license, because 'without other part we can't check if your license is valid'. Really ??? DVLA database hello ??? Have a distinct feeling that police do have access to it. At the same time your car is impounded and you are running up the bills for the cabs, not being at work and storage fees, which you still need to pay 'even , yes, you do have all the documents, but can claim it later'. The claim part only applies to vehicle depot charges, if you want anyhthing else , cab bla bla ... small claim court.
Innocent until proven guilty ???
Only if you are speeding (and of course you happen to be PC)..
Rant over
Your vehicle might get impounded by police.
If your vehicle insurance is not on police national computer police has the right to (and oh do they excercise it) to impound your vehicle. Even if that same computer says that you don't have a road tax, and you quite obviously have road tax on the windscreen police will not ring your insurance to confirm details.
Questioned how would you get 20 days old tax disc without valid insurance, the reply is equaly amusing ; ' Well, you could of had that at the time of issuing tax disc but you may cancelled it afterwards'. Benefit of doubt ? If 'computer is wrong' on tax disc can it be wrong on insurance ? 'No, database of road tax may be OUT OF DATE, but insurance DB is ALWAYS correct' !!!
I suppose its much easier to tow the vehicle, get you producer and get you to waste your time getting all the documents to prove that you actually do have it all. Oh and don't even think of showing without having both parts of your license, because 'without other part we can't check if your license is valid'. Really ??? DVLA database hello ??? Have a distinct feeling that police do have access to it. At the same time your car is impounded and you are running up the bills for the cabs, not being at work and storage fees, which you still need to pay 'even , yes, you do have all the documents, but can claim it later'. The claim part only applies to vehicle depot charges, if you want anyhthing else , cab bla bla ... small claim court.
Innocent until proven guilty ???
Only if you are speeding (and of course you happen to be PC)..
Rant over