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anglaslt Member Since: 24 Dec 2008 Location: Vilnius, Lithuania Posts: 185 |
This is going slightly off topic but of course leaving the country for a couple of weeks does not restart their entitlement. A genuine visitor is allowed 6 months in a 12 month period. I'm afraid the EU didn't help by issuing a directive in 2014 to say that all EU member states must allow the registration of RHD vehicles. The result is that many Eastern Europeans living in the UK bought old UK registered vehicles and re-registered them in their home country thus avoiding road tax/MOT/penalties whilst working in UK. Lithuania refused to apply the directive and makes third party insurance prohibitively expensive for cover in UK and RoI. I think the only answer to this avoidance is enforcement and it cannot be too difficult to impose spot checks on the documentation of foreign registered vehicles. I've driven UK registered cars in Eastern Europe and invariably got stopped for a document check. It's expected and you accept it. Going even further off topic, I think the EU directive is wrong and I do not think that cars should be permanently registered in any country unless the steering is on the correct side, and that includes the UK. I notice an increasing number of LHD cars for sale in UK. A number of them are supposedly private sales of late model cars brought over from Eastern Europe and are almost certainly accident damaged and repaired. Unlike Cat C and D there's no easy history check on these cars. Anyway, back on topic we have no average speed cameras here (yet) and most static cameras don't work. Maybe that why statistically we have one of the worst accident records in Europe. driving on the right side |
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18th Apr 2017 11:58 am |
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Purplemadboy Member Since: 22 Jul 2014 Location: Scotland Posts: 1079 |
Wrong angfasit, here in Hamilton there is a guy who drives an old banger with Italian plates , he disappears for a couple of weeks an then he is here for months .. this has been going on for years. Do it now ! Your a long time dead !! |
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18th Apr 2017 1:10 pm |
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anglaslt Member Since: 24 Dec 2008 Location: Vilnius, Lithuania Posts: 185 |
I'm not saying it's not happening. I'm saying that leaving for a couple of weeks does not renew entiltlement. The problem is a lack of enforcement.
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18th Apr 2017 1:38 pm |
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