It used to be around £25 (years back).
I’ve been told it’s £100 now. Is this true.
I’m assuming it’s still a no points offence?
Looks like it’s £50.
If you can find cardboard and a pen, preferably a felt tip, you’ve got a number plate.
Truckerian99:
If you can find cardboard and a pen, preferably a felt tip, you’ve got a number plate.
One that is yellow with letters and numbers of the correct size and font that conform to the BS standard numberplates have to comply with?
A reg scribbled on cardboard is the same as no numberplate if the copper is feeling that way. Don’t rely on the above to save you from a fine.
Conor:
Truckerian99:
If you can find cardboard and a pen, preferably a felt tip, you’ve got a number plate.One that is yellow with letters and numbers of the correct size and font that conform to the BS standard numberplates have to comply with?
A reg scribbled on cardboard is the same as no numberplate if the copper is feeling that way. Don’t rely on the above to save you from a fine.
Surely if you’re returning to the yard you’d have to get an awkward copper to do you for that…as long as it is clearly readable? Following the letter of the law, a motor factors/accessory shop wouldn’t even make one for you as you don’t have the V5?
If you’re tramping (although I have a spare) and on your way back to the yard with a handwritten one would you get a way with saying someone nicked it while you were parked up and you’re going straight to the yard to get a new one made?
Or if you’re more daring undo the rubber blocks that hold it on the trailer and say it must have fallen off? 
KarlM:
Or if you’re more daring undo the rubber blocks that hold it on the trailer and say it must have fallen off?
I believe you are likely to be threatened with an insecure load offence if you do that.
If you…
Absolutely have to go without one, leave it blank. Start putting on cardboard ones and the law knows you left without it and intended to commit the offence.
When you get pulled then marched to the rear to have it pointed out, look dumbfounded and say you want to report a theft. You never know…
Id think it could well pay off ,you wont get a ticket for speeding and IF youre eventually pulled up for it you can say youre sure it was there when leaving the yard praps glue in a rusted screw tip
corij:
Id think it could well pay off ,you wont get a ticket for speeding.
Used to have an owner driver come into my old place who never put one in for that very reason. It was him who said it was a £25 fine.
Take the rear number plate off the unit and put it on the trailer
One point you have all missed Guys, its a PG9 offence and the DVSA have been told to prohibit! I have had two trucks given PG9’s for this in the last few years.
Well I always had a spare one because when changing trailers it was quite easy to forget, But having said this IIRC Present laws One must have an authorised certificate or something like that to make & supply number plates, So if you lose one & make a one out of carboard I assume one would be breaking law , Regards Larry.
yourhavingalarf:
If you…Absolutely have to go without one, leave it blank. Start putting on cardboard ones and the law knows you left without it and intended to commit the offence.
Now that’s a very interesting point I’d not considered
Wheel Nut:
Take the rear number plate off the unit and put it on the trailer
exactly… I always think the same when I see a car towing a trailer with a cardboard one on (that usually looks like a child has drawn it 
) it takes a few minutes to do and it’s then perfectly legal and could save a lot of hassle
Not always screwed on these days on cars at least. Often riveted or stuck on
Harry Monk:
Looks like it’s £50.
That’s when it went up, but the press release doesn’t tell the full story.
It used to be that a non-endorsable was £30 (e.g. seatbelt or no MOT) and £60 for an endorsable (e.g.speeding). So naturally you’d think it had gone up to £50 and £100. However on the same date they cheekily made a few non-endorsables also £100.
It’s an offence under section 42 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.
The amount is specified in The Fixed Penalty (Amendment) Order 2013 under item 11.
£100 TOR (Traffic Offence Report), non-endorsable.
However a quick gander at the Big DVSA Fun Book of Facts (p.91) says:
REGISTRATION NUMBER
3-12 REGISTRATION NUMBER NOT AFFIXED
- UK REGISTERED VEHICLE
- DRIVER
If registration number is being temporarily and legibly indicated and prohibition criteria is not met - VW (verbal warning)Vehicle or trailer plate missing - £100 FP
The Vehicle Excise and
Registration Act 1994,
Section 23 & 42(1) & (2),
SO-3
That would suggest to me decent home-made one, if necessary, might save a few quid.
macplaxton:
prohibition criteria is not met
Commonly known as “The Attitude Test”
You can often find a spare one on the wall by the gatehouse and if it don’t match the one on the front so much the better.