Friday, January 26, 2007

DVLA's 'motoring underclass'

How can the Governmnent expect to enforce road pricing when there were two million untaxed vehicles on Britain's roads last year?

'One vehicle, one tax disc' should be far simpler to police than 'one vehicle, five hundred journeys'!

More than a million speeding fines are not paid each year [out of 1.9m in 2004], partly because the current owners cannot be traced.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why not employ people to walk the streets with a wireless device connected to DVLA. Any vehicle not taxed is then clamped or removed. It is simple and self financing
Malthebof

Snafu said...

Malthebof, they already seem to do this but on such a limited scale it is not really effective!

The cost-benefit analysis of widening such checks seems inescapable!