oli
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Post by oli on Jan 17, 2018 21:52:34 GMT 1
I'm a bit of a saddo according to my wife and often check number plates on vehicles I see in films etc. They often seem to use dateless or unregistered plates (mainly films) I was just watching Silent Witness and noticed a recovery truck with the numberplate HGV361 so had a check on the MOT History. It seems to be a genuine plate but the first MOT is "unknown" despite it being registered in 2010. Does this mean anything?
Interestingly Vera seems to be one of the few programmes that has a genuine star vehicle - a defender with a full and predictably ropey MOT history!
Oli
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Post by Karl on Jan 17, 2018 22:22:38 GMT 1
Recovery trucks don't need an mot . Or I'm sure they never used to have one .
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Post by Joepublic on Jan 17, 2018 22:24:28 GMT 1
I'm a bit of a saddo according to my wife and often check number plates on vehicles I see in films etc. They often seem to use dateless or unregistered plates (mainly films) I was just watching Silent Witness and noticed a recovery truck with the numberplate HGV361 so had a check on the MOT History. It seems to be a genuine plate but the first MOT is "unknown" despite it being registered in 2010. Does this mean anything? Interestingly Vera seems to be one of the few programmes that has a genuine star vehicle - a defender with a full and predictably ropey MOT history! Oli I've seen recovery vehicles listed as not needing an MOT previously? It caused much debate on the old forum....... |
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Post by Karl on Jan 17, 2018 22:25:53 GMT 1
It is taxed
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Post by matt2223 on Jan 17, 2018 23:24:27 GMT 1
I think recovery vehicles do need an mot. Company I used to work for had recovery vehicles from 3.5t all the way up to the big boys used for lorry recovery. We always motd all of them
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Post by valhalla on Jan 18, 2018 0:13:18 GMT 1
Recovery lorries are exempted from needing an MoT if they are classed as genuinely "Recovery" on the taxation class, and also have a body-type that is specifically for Recovery, and only Recovery. A V112G goes into the tax office once a year to declare them exempt. The rules on Recovery are very strict; no private use, no other commercial use, must have a "base" from which they operate and are serviced, and they are limited to an operational area around the garage from which they are nominally recovering cars back to. This is how I got scuppered with my truck; the tax class and body-type were totally wrong, and I didn't have any local inspection offices to get the whole lot sorted. It's now scrapped.  |
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Post by matt2223 on Jan 18, 2018 2:01:56 GMT 1
Recovery lorries are exempted from needing an MoT if they are classed as genuinely "Recovery" on the taxation class, and also have a body-type that is specifically for Recovery, and only Recovery. A V112G goes into the tax office once a year to declare them exempt. The rules on Recovery are very strict; no private use, no other commercial use, must have a "base" from which they operate and are serviced, and they are limited to an operational area around the garage from which they are nominally recovering cars back to. This is how I got scuppered with my truck; the tax class and body-type were totally wrong, and I didn't have any local inspection offices to get the whole lot sorted. It's now scrapped. This would explain why ours had to have mot as they went all over the country |
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Post by magnus on Jan 18, 2018 14:36:40 GMT 1
Good to see some of the well known tv (minder)cars still surviving SLE71R
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Post by Joepublic on Jan 18, 2018 16:28:47 GMT 1
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Post by Roverman on Jan 19, 2018 12:34:10 GMT 1
When I was in my garage I had a old landrover with a harvey frost crane on the back, it was classed as a crane £5 road tax & no mot  |
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Post by Anna Rack on Jan 19, 2018 16:23:59 GMT 1
I sometimes do the same, Wheeler Dealers always seem to be SORN! Maybe Mike's got a large garage full of them?
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