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Orcade-Ian:
Yes Julie, already Historic, think it’s a trip to the Post Office if it’s still bicycle or unlicensed like my CB77.

Must say I did expect the system to fall over so I did mine when I got up - about 7.30 as I would like to use it before they had to fix the bugs.

Ian

Strangely enough, I tried just for fun yesterday and it would have let me tax it as it said that as the records show I am on an Island with no convenient method of using it on Mainland GB, no need for MOT. That is ONLY true for the outer isles but not Orkney Mainland - but we know they don’t know their arse from their elbow!

MCTID:
Who remembers the recent Passport fiasco.....or the DVLA getting rid of paper Tax Discs and 'losing' over £100M revenue in the following year from 'untaxed' vehicles ? - so I had to smile when I read that the 'system had crashed' by 10am today.

Why didn't the DVLA just introduce a system whereby the vehicle becomes exempt on it's 40th anniversary of it's registration.......so that the 'system' is spread over 365 days of the year rather than just one day ?

I watched some of the Royal wedding yesterday....marvelling at how 100,000+ people could be a part of a massive undertaking which ran like clockwork and how hundreds of guests, participants, staff, police, ambulance and service personnel (and Horses) could all be assembled in the right place at the right time.......made me thoroughly proud to be British.

Fast forward one day and the DVLA system crashes.....makes you embarrassingly uncomfortable to be British............LOL.

Is there a Government Department where all the duffers and pillocks who fail miserably in their Civil Service jobs are assembled and whose sole purpose is to spend their working days dreaming up hare brained schemes which have little chance of success.........is it called the DTF Department.......Doomed to Fail ? Enjoy your Sunday folks. 

royhall:
Hi Alan. Long time no see. Was wondering where you had gone.

Orcade-Ian:
 Quote. “Why didn't the DVLA just introduce a system whereby the vehicle becomes exempt on it's 40th anniversary of it's registration.......so that the 'system' is spread over 365 days of the year rather than just one day ?”

I think if they took a logical step like that, then many people would ask why there is a need for this Dick Turpin method of extracting two lots of revenue for the same item when vehicles are bought and sold.  The other thing that brasses me off is that when you tax on line the money disappears from your account within seconds but refunds are sent out by post and always arrive on Saturdays when banks are shut.  We might think they are stupid, but they never miss a trick to steal from us.

Ian

royhall:
Tried again and it's working fine. 16.25 Sunday. I like getting things for free. :D 8)

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