- Sat Aug 29, 2020 1:46 pm
#92573
SORN and DVLA:
I have an old car which was the family spare. Because of the pandemic and other personal reasons I had no use for it in the short term (my other car was doing less than 30 miles per week because I wasn't travelling to work and there are three other vehicles here already correctly on SORN - they are ongoing projects). I decided to take this car off the road and correctly declared a "SORN" via the DVLA website, some six months ago. It does have a current MOT and is still fully insured but is kept off road, on my private property.
Today I received a letter from DVLA reminding me to tax it if I intend to use it or park it on the road (our road is unadopted and privately owned by the residents, but no matter).
Fair enough. But since SORN is these days is "enduring" (I'm aware it originally wasn't) and I have other vehicles in similar circumstances, I wonder why they think I might not have kept things legal with this one in particular; I wouldn't be so stupid as to drive it untaxed, seeing that I'm very aware that there are fixed ANPR cameras at either end of our village and many more in the local area and these are presumably linked to the DVLA database.
I went onto the .GOV.UK website where the SORN declaration is done. I entered my vehicle's details and it confirmed the SORN remained valid so I didn't need to take any action.
If this is a general reminder, I should have already received similar reminders for the other vehicles; they have been SORN'd far longer. Maybe I'm about to receive more, one fore each vehicle? Just made we wonder how much these reminder letters cost. Is the owner of every SORN'd vehicle receiving one? There must be hundreds of thousands of them.
Anyone else in this situation?
I have an old car which was the family spare. Because of the pandemic and other personal reasons I had no use for it in the short term (my other car was doing less than 30 miles per week because I wasn't travelling to work and there are three other vehicles here already correctly on SORN - they are ongoing projects). I decided to take this car off the road and correctly declared a "SORN" via the DVLA website, some six months ago. It does have a current MOT and is still fully insured but is kept off road, on my private property.
Today I received a letter from DVLA reminding me to tax it if I intend to use it or park it on the road (our road is unadopted and privately owned by the residents, but no matter).
Fair enough. But since SORN is these days is "enduring" (I'm aware it originally wasn't) and I have other vehicles in similar circumstances, I wonder why they think I might not have kept things legal with this one in particular; I wouldn't be so stupid as to drive it untaxed, seeing that I'm very aware that there are fixed ANPR cameras at either end of our village and many more in the local area and these are presumably linked to the DVLA database.
I went onto the .GOV.UK website where the SORN declaration is done. I entered my vehicle's details and it confirmed the SORN remained valid so I didn't need to take any action.
If this is a general reminder, I should have already received similar reminders for the other vehicles; they have been SORN'd far longer. Maybe I'm about to receive more, one fore each vehicle? Just made we wonder how much these reminder letters cost. Is the owner of every SORN'd vehicle receiving one? There must be hundreds of thousands of them.
Anyone else in this situation?
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