Identity discs will be issued for each specified motor vehicle for which a fee has been paid. Each disc will show: the operator’s name; the vehicle registration mark; the operator’s licence number; the disc expiry date; and the type of licence.
The disc must be displayed on the windscreen of the vehicle to which it belongs — it may not be used on any other vehicle. The discs are colour coded as follows: Orange — Restricted licence; Blue — Standard National licence; and, Green — Standard International licence.
WHARTY:
Its a good idea deesider but in the last few months the company i work for has stopped taking notice of defect reports and have even stopped supplying daily check sheets i would leave under most circumstances but have just bought my first house so cant really afford too. there are still one or two bad eggs knocking around in the industry and i think i work for one.
If you are worried about paying your mortgage now, I suggest you pay a couple of quid and buy a copy of Commercial Motor and read the legal pages.
The TC loves to get his claws into companys like yours, If I was you I would be making a daily defect sheet and posting a copy with your timesheet regardless.
A driver can and will not be prosecuted for not displaying a tax disc/o.licence. it is down to the owner of the vehicle. I have driven many vehicles without discs over the years and the owner has been reported…only problem is…without a valid disc you are more likely to be pulled…and thereby lead to more problems…so if you dont have a valid disc…make sure you and the vehicle are 100%…that way only the boss gets nicked.
truckyboy:
A driver can and will not be prosecuted for not displaying a tax disc/o.licence. it is down to the owner of the vehicle. I have driven many vehicles without discs over the years and the owner has been reported…only problem is…without a valid disc you are more likely to be pulled…and thereby lead to more problems…so if you dont have a valid disc…make sure you and the vehicle are 100%…that way only the boss gets nicked.
true for the o licence but a number of years ago i was told to go away and come back in about 5 minutes when a truck i was driving (parked up at the side of the road whilst i walked a couple of boxes to a cinema) was being ticketed by a police officer who obviously didn’t want the hassle of doing me at the same time or felt sorry for me when i revealed that i did know it had no tax disc on display and yes i had reported it but as (at the time anyway) there was a shortage of decent jobs about for truck drivers i was forced into the position of taking the truck out or looking for another job.
i was told that as the driver it was my resposibility to ensure the vehicle was taxed and insured before i drove it, how many of us ask our employer to see their insurance before taking out a truck?
i decided there and then that if there was no tax in the window then it stayed where it was unless as has happened in later years, the tax has arrived but i’m not in the country to put it in the window and it’s had to wait until i got back to the yard.
I have to confess that when I was working from the Southampton outbase of a Hull firm they used to send the tax discs down in the post along with our payslips, invariably well in advance of the date they needed to be changed…whereupon I’d clip mine to my sheaf of photos/phone numbers/other crap above the screen and promptly forget all about it until I was in Hull a month later…at which point the TM would tap me on the shoulder on his way past and remind me…again…
Not really relevant, but a chuckle at my expense nonetheless…
whilst it is an offence for a vehicle to be used on a road without a valid excise license this offence doesn’t come down to the driver in the situation being discussed here. .
Sorry but your wrong Qhunter
The Driver is LEGALLY responsible to ensure that the vehicle is Roadworthy and Legally entitled to be driven on the road.
Knowing the Tax Disc is Missing is knowingly using a vehicle on the road in an illegal manner.
One of the daily check requirements is that the Tax & O Licence discs are in place and valid for that vehicle
