Number Plates

[myndit]

So
My new RIB and trailer arrive in a few days time and I trot off to Halfords for a trailer number plate. Having had to do this before I equipped my self with the following documents:

Tow car V5 log book
Insurance Cert.
MOT
My passport
My driving licence
My house address latest telephone bill

After great deliberation by 3 members of staff, my request was refused due to lack of supporting documentation regarding my identity. (They wanted to see a 'utility bill' as the latest regs do not consider a telephone bill as adequate)

My work activities require me to attend sites where my identity requires confirmation. I have had no problems with the following sites using the above documentation:

RAF XXXXXXX (this is the one Tony Blair rushes to in the event of a nuclear alert). I have been inside the actual bunker.

Buckingham Palace
St James Palace
AWE (Atomic Weapons establishment)
Nuclear Bases in Scotland
Sellafield Cumbria
War Office
Whitehall
Air Traffic control
etc
etc

So it looks like you now need more supporting documentation to purchase eight black characters and a piece of plastic from a number plate shop. Bureaucracy or what??

So beware the requirements.

Doug

[Richard B]

Hey Doug, you've just become kidnap target no.1 for Al Qaeda

[RIVA]

after beeing in manchester, when that massive bomb went off 8 streets away , i say make everthing as hard as possibly for any terroist

[myndit]

My real beef is that if a villian wanted a number plate he would simply make one. This makes the whole process daft as it is only the law-abiders that go through the process..

Doug

[RIVA]

HOW WOULD THEY MAKE ONE , all number plates now are recorded. and the manafacteres postcode is located on the plate . for trace backs , some times the goverment is quiet clever realy the way they have done it

[Suzuki416]

Why would a 'thief' need to make a plate!

They would just steal it from a local car park.

[tue]

I just bought a yellow number plate background and the relevant letters and numbers, stuck em on and stuck it to my trailer board. We also do this at work if we need to hire a van to collect or deliver things.

[myndit]

I have bought 2 new cars over the past year and have never had to show my documentation to the suppling dealership, and yes you can still buy the numbers only from our local caravan shop..

Doug

[RIVA]

yes a few small minded shopes will get rid of there stickon letters soon enough , but look on any new car and the plate has the post code of the manafacture in it . p.s. £5000.0 fine for the maker of non legal plates now stickons are ilegal evan on trailers .why do you all not agree that a bit more effort from law abiding people will make it harder for theives and terroists

[roohairy]

Second time I've heard of this from Halfords, will be going somewhere else on prinicple. I do not have a vehicle large enough to tow a boat trailer at the moment, how am I supposed to get a numerplate next time I hire a 4x4 to tow it?

Another subject, but annoys me just as much if it's true, I understand that S reg and later cars have to have a towbar fitted by a trained 'technician'. No offense to said persons, but I can work on any other part of my car brakes included but have to pay someone to bolt on a towbar!!! I hope someone will tell me this isn't true.....

[Rogue Wave]

If the beaurocracy really hacks you off, and it really does it to me and you want to avoid the crap the get a mail order number plate from Paddyland for a tenner. There are a couple of people advertising this service on e bay

[Tim M]

I've got a erm, friend who purchased a number plate on ebay for his trailer. He didn't have to give any documentation.....

[jwalker]

Well now, this is a law only applicable to England, Wales and probably N. Ireland.(Don't know about that.) It does not apply to Scotland. Nothing but your money is required to have a plate made here. Nor is it necessary to have other information or the blue GB bit on it.

[Rupert Bear]

I asked in passing to get a plate made up cos I melted it a bit in Halfords and a local car shop, both said I needed the V5 and identification so I didn't bother.

[jwalker]

Nope, you don't. Maybe they heard of the law change and just presumed it also applies to Scotland. I presumed that too, initially.

I got a trailer plate made up last week with no GB on it and also a front number plate for a different vehicle with the blue SCO logo.

[Stephen-RIB]

Originally Posted by myndit

So
My new RIB and trailer arrive in a few days time and I trot off to Halfords for a trailer number plate. Having had to do this before I equipped my self with the following documents:

Tow car V5 log book
Insurance Cert.
MOT
My passport
My driving licence
My house address latest telephone bill

After great deliberation by 3 members of staff, my request was refused due to lack of supporting documentation regarding my identity. (They wanted to see a 'utility bill' as the latest regs do not consider a telephone bill as adequate)

My work activities require me to attend sites where my identity requires confirmation. I have had no problems with the following sites using the above documentation:

RAF XXXXXXX (this is the one Tony Blair rushes to in the event of a nuclear alert). I have been inside the actual bunker.

Buckingham Palace
St James Palace
AWE (Atomic Weapons establishment)
Nuclear Bases in Scotland
Sellafield Cumbria
War Office
Whitehall
Air Traffic control
etc
etc

So it looks like you now need more supporting documentation to purchase eight black characters and a piece of plastic from a number plate shop. Bureaucracy or what??

So beware the requirements.

Doug

Hi Doug,

I will need to do the same next week, so what do they actually require? I do not have any untility bills in my name you see? Would they take business invoices? or am I going to have to get medieval on them?

[Rogue Wave]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...category=36632

follow the link and get a number plate

[Daniel TD5]

the best bit was i went and got my number plate from my local garage with all the bit of paper due to the main dealer would not make me one up as my truck is owned buy my company not me and how do you get a water bill for a large company we even got the truck from him best bit is when i picked up the boat my boss lent me his new discovery so the number plates did not match

[Ribald]

Originally Posted by Daniel TD5

best bit is when i picked up the boat my boss lent me his new discovery so the number plates did not match

I was chatting to a retired police officer a couple of weeks ago and he said that, in his 30+ years in The Job, he did not once come across a case of a motorist being done for having a different no. plate on the trailer to that on the towing vehicle.

[geoff]

My understanding is that the trailer number plate does not have to match the car, but it must match up with the driver of the vehicle. Anyone know if this is true or have I been believing Porky Pies.