Eh up,

Just done a search and it's thrown up all sorts of legal questions.

Basically I was wonderin if I can drive to my inspection with trade plates on? It's passed sva and also insured, I thought the only reason you can't normally do it is due to lack of tax, which a trade plate covers.

Also found in a search that someone had email confirmation from dvla that it was ok to drive there anyway.

Very confusing, try to avoid hiring a trailer for a 25 minute journey, and 5 minute inspection!!

Cheers,

Martin

err im not sure,
im kinda thinking no,ring and ask.

can you drive any other car that has no tax with trade plates??

sorry martin i didnt read your post in full,
if thats the case then i carnt see why not,

you could just get them to visit you and do the checks

[Edited on 14/7/09 by jpindy3]

Can't give you the answer you are looking for but whilst I was at SVA someone rung up to ask if it was OK to drive to SVA on trade plates and was told it wouldn't be . On the other hand I was told by Peterborough DVLA it was OK to drive to inspection.

I'd say yes.
Do it anyway

driving to the test is not a problem as long as you hold appropriate 3rd party insurance and your car is deemed roadworthy and you take it to the nearest tesing station and back via a direct route.

Shouldthinktrade plate wouldn't be a problem as long as you are licenced to use the plate ie not borrowing from a mate.

My understanding is that a car must display a valid tax disc when on the road with the single exception of travelling to & from a pre-booked MoT/SVA/IVA test.

DVLA inspection is not an MoT/SVA/IVA test.

Don't know about trade plates myself, but VTL301/1 gives more info. I've always thought that trade plates are a sort of 'floating' tax disc.
John.

Drove mine to Portsmouth DVLA for the inspection, and nothing was said, apart from they wanted to change the vin number, but had already had this agreed by them previously, so that didn't happen. :-) Best thing is to ring them and find out. Cheers Ray

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Originally posted by Chippy
Drove mine to Portsmouth DVLA for the inspection, and nothing was said..... :-) Best thing is to ring them and find out. Cheers Ray

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DVLA Manchester advised me to drive it to them on trade plates after I explained that I was insured, just hadn't got a tax disc.

I visited the Notts DVLA today.
I asked them the question, can you drive there. They answer was absolutly not. You can drive to a mandatory test, e.g. MOT or IVA but the DVLA process is an inspection, not test of the vechicle so that get out clause does not apply.