How To Behave In a Speed Awareness Course

[sinto]

personally I think heroin is much more dangerous than speed 

[BBROWN1664]

Well for a start the foreign drivers are a lot harder to track down

This is why it is illegal for a UK licence holder to drive a foreign registered vehicle in the UK. The only exception is if it is a company vehicle.

[sinto]

As above really Frosties,
How come foreign drivers never get pulled over for speeding and sent on these courses?

Well for a start the foreign drivers are a lot harder to track down, as UK don't have access to foreign driver databases, addresses, licence details etc....

The only way to catch them is to pull them over at the time of them speeding, then they just get prosecuted, no speed awareness for them.

Also, could you imagine going to france/italy/germany, and sitting in a speed awareness course in their language? Stuff that, giz the fine! :P

Think you've missed the point stevierst, it was a list of questions to ask the people running the courses to get their take on it, although we probably know the answers it would of been fun to get their answers.

[sinto]

This is why it is illegal for a UK licence holder to drive a foreign registered vehicle in the UK. The only exception is if it is a company vehicle.

You sure this is right?

I thought if you buy a foreign vehicle,  you have a certain amount of time to transfer it onto a UK plate etc thus causing you to be driving a foreign vehicle on UK roads with a UK licence up to the time you change it?

[stevierst]

Sorry Sinto, I came back into the thread in 1/2 way through a bottle of Jamesons!

Yes I seem to have missed the point a bit, Damn my legal background!

[sinto]

Sorry Sinto, I came back into the thread in 1/2 way through a bottle of Jamesons!

Yes I seem to have missed the point a bit, Damn my legal background!

Tut tut,  I'll let you off this time, but next time, make sure you finish the bottle, it'd of been a whole lot more fun

And yes, jealous of the Jamesons

[BBROWN1664]

you have a certain amount of time to transfer it onto a UK plate etc

sinto, that rule is for foreign licence holders.

[sinto]

you have a certain amount of time to transfer it onto a UK plate etc

sinto, that rule is for foreign licence holders.

No, it's for UK licence holders, I know of a few people who have bought foreign vehicles for one reason or another and remember them having informed dvla, insurance companies etc they were advised  that they'd need to change the plates / registration at dvla within 6months or something,  but they deffinetly have UK licences.

Why would a foreign licence holder want to change their vehicle details to a UK registered car and still have a foreign licence? That really doesn't make sense,  but then maybe that's where it gets done, cause it doesn't make sense! 

[BBROWN1664]

https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/temporary-imports

The important part - You must tax and register your vehicle in the UK if you become a resident or your stay is longer than 6 months.

If you are a UK resident, you should have a UK licence if you've been here long enough. If you have a UK licence, you canot drive a foreign plated vehicle in the UK.

[sinto]

https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/temporary-imports

The important part - You must tax and register your vehicle in the UK if you become a resident or your stay is longer than 6 months.

If you are a UK resident, you should have a UK licence if you've been here long enough. If you have a UK licence, you canot drive a foreign plated vehicle in the UK.

As normal, one rule says one thing, another says something else, but basically it's what I was saying and of what you were saying, just different interpretations of it

[BBROWN1664]

I used to have the link to the DVLA website where this was all documented as I was looking at buying a cheap runabout for when I am in France and having it registered/insured there as we have a house there. The problem came in if I wanted to bring it back to the UK for the winter or whatever. As a UK resident and licence holder I couldn't drive it anywhere apart from the port to my house and then to DVLA to get it inspected/regisetered. As the car would be going back out to France I would not want to do this.