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grandad
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Once the car is plated it remains plated until either the plate expires or is handed back to the council. Anyone driving a plated car must have a badge.


*Unless it is being driven by a garage employee/owner whilst having repairs or plating carried out*


Wasn't there a thread on here a bit back where someone got done for road testing a plated vehicle without a badge?

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Once the car is plated it remains plated until either the plate expires or is handed back to the council. Anyone driving a plated car must have a badge.


*Unless it is being driven by a garage employee/owner whilst having repairs or plating carried out*


Wasn't there a thread on here a bit back where someone got done for road testing a plated vehicle without a badge?


Not sure, but I'm assuming it's different in all LA's.

Down here I don't know of any taxi fleet owners who have a badge.
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This case was the fleet owner. He was out road testing the vehicle and he took some paperwork into the council offices at the same time.

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So there is nothing to stop your wife using your car to go shopping or anything else


I take it that's provided she has a licence and insurance to drive it?


No most policies state business and social and domestic, so she can drive domestic without a badge


My policy states that but the LA's regs say you have to have a badge so only a badged driver can drive it, I think he should clarify it with the LO first.



Its not the LO thats the sticking point..its the Insurance company, whos to say that the folk that his wife is driving about are bona fide friends getting a lift or hooky customers being driven by an unbadged PH driver...

I couldnt add anyone to my PH Insurance unless i can provide photo copies of their PH licence and Badge..admittedly they can drive it for social and domestic use afterwards but they have to be PH licensed first.


whose to know its a PHV if it only has removable badges/plates?....

its twaddle, if i use a FAMILY saloon as a PHV then thats what i should be able to use it for, family use.

so if we drive to spain next year the wife cant share the driving (and as a registered co-keeper she can be/SHOULD be insured)
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I never take my sign or plates off, when I go on holiday, I have even been to the south of France with them in place, stopped at a taxi rank to ask directions swapped business cards even managed to get a cheap service as well :D
When I went last time i took my Superb and all the cabbys where having a good look around the car as they had only seen pics of it, as it was one of the first ones sold here
So there is nothing to stop your wife using your car to go shopping or anything else, just make sure she is on the insurance



And the insurance company will the ask for a copy of her PH drivers licence, won't they?

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So there is nothing to stop your wife using your car to go shopping or anything else


I take it that's provided she has a licence and insurance to drive it?


No most policies state business and social and domestic, so she can drive domestic without a badge


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: wrong.

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Can I ask whats made you arrive at this decision to enter the PH trade?

A brain the size of an elephant. :shock:

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That's gonna annoy the wife! Surley the wife is ok for SD+P?

If she gets a PH license she can drive it, if not then she can only watch and wish. :D

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one of the stupidest laws imaginable

shes not gonna work the vehicle, no intention to, but the councile want a badge fee to allow her to drive?

I agree, more than likely Mrs Pooki wont work it, but alas where many using this excuse that did.

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No most policies state business and social and domestic, so she can drive domestic without a badge

Has your LO confirmed that? :?

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if i had put my council sticky signs on magnetic backgrounds, and had a spare rear plate then 2 minutes work would see my bus as a private vehicle (as in private hire vehicle less the hire)

we have 2 part time LO's who dont work weekends or evenings and as for police, well, they couldnt care less coul dthey.
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if i had put my council sticky signs on magnetic backgrounds, and had a spare rear plate then 2 minutes work would see my bus as a private vehicle (as in private hire vehicle less the hire)

we have 2 part time LO's who dont work weekends or evenings and as for police, well, they couldnt care less coul dthey.


Sounds about right. :sad:

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wannabeeahack wrote:
bloodnock wrote:
toots wrote:
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So there is nothing to stop your wife using your car to go shopping or anything else


I take it that's provided she has a licence and insurance to drive it?


No most policies state business and social and domestic, so she can drive domestic without a badge


My policy states that but the LA's regs say you have to have a badge so only a badged driver can drive it, I think he should clarify it with the LO first.



Its not the LO thats the sticking point..its the Insurance company, whos to say that the folk that his wife is driving about are bona fide friends getting a lift or hooky customers being driven by an unbadged PH driver...

I couldnt add anyone to my PH Insurance unless i can provide photo copies of their PH licence and Badge..admittedly they can drive it for social and domestic use afterwards but they have to be PH licensed first.


whose to know its a PHV if it only has removable badges/plates?....

its twaddle, if i use a FAMILY saloon as a PHV then thats what i should be able to use it for, family use.

so if we drive to spain next year the wife cant share the driving (and as a registered co-keeper she can be/SHOULD be insured)



well if the Un Badged wife Slam dunks it into another vehicle the Insurance company might take a somewhat less benevolent view as to who was entitled to be driving a PH vehicle with its plates removed for illicit use.
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ILLICIT?

get real......pmsl

as my LA have no jurisdiction out of area, if shes insured she can drive it then.......
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ILLICIT?

get real......pmsl

as my LA have no jurisdiction out of area, if shes insured she can drive it then.......


whats so funny....using a vehicle without proper insurance is illegal....and that means Illicit...unless of course the operations run by cowboys...then its still illicit..not the Domestic and social part but by the Domestic and social part being using a PH vehicle( plates on or off its still PH) by an unbadged Driver...your casual approach concerns me....lets hope me or my drivers dont bump into you...

Dont be a divvy...if she aint insured as a PH nor holds a PH licence she aint insured to drive a PH full stop as you cannot have two insurance policys on one vehicle...however you can have several vehicles on one policy...matters not a Monkeys f*rt what LA it is as its a Vehicle insurance issue and Vehicle insurance issues are national issues..no insurance company would let a Non badged driver use a PH or hack for that matter to be covered.
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