what do they cover you for?

 

try direct.gov or dvla site

 

tax only!

 

Hi mate, i've worked with trade plates before.. they cover you for driving a vehicle without tax in the window and also if your named on the company who owns the plates insurance also to drive a vehicle without insurance.. so insurance and tax.. but if you are not named on the trade policy or an employee of the plate owner then you must have the trade plate owner in the passenger seat, then you could say your test driving the car.. all depends on what the plates are used for with insurance really.

 

tar mate!

 

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im just getting my first set of trade plates lots of reading as there assigments are to different things but basicly cover you for tax for a vehicle not belonging to you of a vehicle tempararily in your ownership

Tony

 

i thought there was different ones? i.e different levels of "cover"

 

TAX but only for work use,ie cant take wife shopping ,and not ment to carry passengers,unless for demo purposes,also not to be left in vehicle at night,

cheeRS stu

 

there is different levels of cover but that isn't really to do with the trade plates, thats to do with the traders insurance policy really. but it does not cover MOT, as in, you could not go an buy a car from your local scrap yard and drive it on trade plates, the car has to be fully road legal except for tax and depending on trade insurance, a car with no insurance on it.

 

they not cover you for mot anymore? i was thinking of getting a set again but wont bother if it dont cover no mot......

 

the not being left in the car bit is just a policy stipulation really, its only so the plates dont get stolen mostly

 

I have them for motorcycles and i thought they coverd for MOT ??

 

not for MOT. without MOT you see means you could potentially you could drive a unsafe vehicle on the road.

 

just tax and insurance. cus a car without them isn't unsafe just not legal if you know what i mean

 

Taken from the DVLA

Quote:

Note A vehicle used under a trade licence is exempt from the MOT testing requirements only when being tested during the course of , or on completion of, repairs or when being driven to and from a pre-arranged MOT examination. However, a vehicle which has failed the test or which has no valid MOT must be towed to the place of breaking.


THERE IS NO AUTOMATIC EXEMPTION FROM MOT TESTING FOR VEHICLES USED UNDER A TRADE LICENCE.

so a bit of a grey area ?

 

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well thats ideal really, if ya knew you were going to have to drive a car without insurance mot and tax on trade plates ya could just ring ya local mot centre and book it in. then drive it home, so if ya get stopped ya could be legal as its booked in, regardless of whether you actually go for the Mot, cool, however that is just the same as joe public without plates, your aloud to drive it to the mot centre and so on.

 

They allow you to move a vehicle on the road without being registered or taxed....

You MUST have vaild insurance and MOT.

Alex

 

i wont bother getting another set of plates then ......its been over 10 years since i had a set so rules have changed ......