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Fully agree, Greg. If you take the trouble to park carefully then being towed away shouldn't be an issue, either :-)
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No. Some people think the it is proof of ownership, and might buy the car if it has been stolen, along with the car.
Slight thread creep here, but can anyone explain the purpose of the 2-part driving licence? I still have the old paper one, not having moved house for over 10 years now. It seems that the new 2-part is only accepted by car hire companies if you have both parts. I know the photocard part is seen by some as an unofficial ID card, but 2 parts = twice the risk of loosing it!
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Mine stays locked away. Also if you leave it in the car and it gets broekn into, thief has your address of possibly unoccupied house.
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Yes - 2-part licence silly, but in old days, it was the only the poor government could make a more streamlined system based on credit card sized document. In future it will a computerised system, so you will only need your card - but it will very expensive, unreliable and years away - unlike other countries which probably have it now for the cost of a spark plug.
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Slight thread creep here but can anyone explain the purpose of the 2-part driving licence? I still have the old paper one not having moved house for over 10 years now. It seems that the new 2-part is only accepted by car hire companies if you have both parts. I know the photocard part is seen by some as an unofficial ID card but 2 parts = twice the risk of loosing it!
The driving licence is only classed a valid licence if both parts are present.
It says that on the front of the paper part under Counterpart Driving Licence. I don't understand the logic of this in comparison with the old paper licence and a passport as ID except the new one has to be renewed.
Yet another brilliant system. I'm surprised the new ones are not linked to your current account via chip and pin so you can be fined on the spot.
Answering the original post do not carry V5 in the UK, must carry it when abroad.
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It was a rhetorical question...
I don't suppose anybody carries it with them in the UK. So is it not wholly unreasonable for a council who has towed your car away to demand it?
And is it not wholly pointless to demand it, if they don't enforce it.
O ye smug ones who have never been towed... Westminster are in the habit of suspending bays without notice and towing away a resident car...
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Some years ago a friend of mine was stopped by the police (that shows you how long ago it was!) and asked to show his documents.
He prompty produced his Log Book from the glove compartment, and was then told off by the police officers for carrying this document around in such a manner!
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Never had a need to carry mine around with me. Only carry the photo part of my driving license for ID purposes (and my insurance policy number).
Chris
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Don't you have to carry the V5 when abroad. And if company wheels get the original or a certified copy??
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I've still got my little red book licence. Remember them? They look like a mini passport are coloured dark red and are about 2 inches tall by maybe 1 1/2 inches wide. (note: no metric dimensions as most licence holders of that era in UK had no idea about anything metric!!).
That reminds me, isn't it about time the DT got rid of temperatures in F.
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Reminds me of a case in the mid-eighties where a driver produced one of these antiques to an Officer, adding insult to injury she included a 10 shilling note inside 15 yrs after they stopped being legal tender ! She had no current licence though !
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>> That reminds me isn't it about time the DT got rid of temperatures in F.
No.
Why?
Why should they?
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Yet another brilliant system. I'm surprised the new ones are not linked to your current account via chip and pin so you can be fined on the spot.
I was only joking when I wrote this but looking at the front page of todays D**** M*** it appears not so far fetched...
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Strikes me as bizarre, for who would pay several hundreds to release a car that was not theirs anyway?
Mapmaker,
I would love to part with several hundered pounds to recover a porshe 911 that did not belong to me
Carse.
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>>I would love to part with several hundered pounds to recover a porshe 911 that did not belong to me
So should I. But in the above scenario you'd STILL have to break in, you'd STILL have to hotwire it (in the pound, in front of the parking attendant no doubt with CCTV cameras watching, and the parking attendant has your driving licence number), you'd STILL not have a set of keys for it and it STILL wouldn't be yours!
Much easier to nick one from the roadside and save the hundreds of pounds and reduce the likelihood of being caught. Or am I missing something?
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