CHARGERS AND CREEPERS I HATE, HATE, HATE both! Chargers - Those meatheads who charge up to a stop sign on the side street you are approaching when you have the right of way, and look as though they are going to blow the stop, then they stand on the brakes at the last minute as you feel your nuts climbing up into your chest cavity. Creepers - The cretins who are stopped on the side street you are approaching when you have the right of way, but start rolling, ever so slowly, past the stop line - "Are they gonna go?" "Do they see me?" "Should I say a Hail Mary?" Did I say I HATE, HATE, HATE them both?
So, when a cretin driving like an a$$hole sees the "Child on board" or "Baby on board" sticker on a car they will suddenly reflect on their bad driving habits and become model drivers? They remind me of the "Gun Free Zone" signs. I'm sure that an armed mope approaching a gun free zone with bad intent would see the sign and decide not to do bad things.
Have a look at this :- https://www.theoldhamtimes.co.uk/news/23601923.oldham-takeaway-owner-banned-food-businesses-life/ In this day and age, how the hell can people get away with running premises like this ? Because places like this don't get this dirty overnight.
ROAD TAX! My car is apparently ULEZ compliant and as such I've only ever paid £30 a year to tax it. I can't really complain about that as its a 2 litre Diesel and as we all know a 600cc and above motorcycle costs well over £100 to tax for the same period. I've had the car 4 years and the tax has never gone up in that time. You know what's coming right? Yes, its gone up to £35 this year. 'Why are you moaning' I hear you say? Its only a fiver more. Yes it is, but that equates to a 16% increase which to my mind is a bl**dy lot. Robbing gits. Whilst I'm having a moan, as I have 4 roadworthy bikes, only one under 600cc, my road tax bill is fairly hefty. I can't ride all 4 at once, so why not have a system where the owner/rider/driver pays the tax on a personal basis and is able to drive/ride all of his/her vehicles for a one off annual payment? A similar system is used in the States I believe. Perhaps Sandi or one of our other stateside members can explain their system better. ,
Bikes are over-taxed. It's ridiculous that a bike is charged over £100 but a diesel car gets away with £35
A personal tax @johne as you suggest for a multi vehicle owner, such as probably most on here, wouldn't create the same revenue. Let's forget all this green planet BS as at the end of the day the government spends loads and sells/makes or otherwise "earns" absolutely nothing! My 65 plate car, is £20 pa. My 72 plate car is £165 pa, both petrols. If this really was about emissions then surely the 7 year newer car would be cheapest, no? My x3 over 600cc bikes are, what is it, £105 pa each. Our motorhome is the real pisstake, least road miles used a year yet over £320 pa. So I make that over £800 in road tax plus over £3k/yr in council tax so probably need to earn over £6k just to cover those liabilities and get my bins emptied.... absolute joke!
My Husaberg at 570cc just falls into the lower tax rate for bikes with the others at full wack. My 25yr old diesel 4x4 is not categorised by actual emissions numbers but classed as over 1549cc at £325 PA. Sooner or later they're going to start coming down heavily on people who hang on to older vehicles IMO.
Older vehicles will be the means to subsidise the electric change over before we all get a shock See what I did there
You really should consider up plating your motorhome. Mine is plated at 4t this (ridiculous as it may seem) reduces the road tax to £165. Crazy eh? My wife’s car, a 15 plate smart for four is zero rated tax. A newer model of exactly the same car is not zero rated.
Might get this beastie up and running in the next few months, just to be able to stick two fingers up at the government as its tax and mot free from 2024
Interesting that @Glenn2926 as we are considering trading ours in in the next year and want to be around the 4 ton mark to provide the necessary upgrade. Thanks.
It is for exactly that reason that I bought a 65 plate rather than a 17 onwards. Same car, nothing at all different, went from £20 to £165 yearly tax ...... totally ridiculous! When we bought the 72 plate they were falling over themselves for us to px the 65 plate in as it was an easy seller, one salesperson even said so. We px'ed a 58 plate Seat in instead
Sorry just back from a long weekend bike trip to Arran so only just seen this. There are companies that do this for owners of motorhomes. Depending on your motorhome and the weight you want to up to it is normally just a paper exercise. I think SV tech or something similar is the one I have mentioned most.
Parcel Farce I know, We've all waited in all day for a delivery that didn't happen. I bought a top box on line last week. The seller sent it by 24 hour delivery, that was last Wednesday, so of course nearly a week later its still not here. Apparently Rumplestiltskin is due to call between 13:43 and 14:43 this afternoon. He was also due to call yesterday between 16:09 and 17:09 according to the tracking info. The little map on the Courier website showed his white van to be less than 2 miles from here at about half past 4. Ah well, its not as if its a donor heart or something critical. I don't usually flame delivery companies. Shit happens as Forest Gump said, but FFS! if you pay for 24 hour delivery you kind of expect no worse than 48 hours don't you? Its well over 120 hours now, Lets hope Rumple with his horse and cart make this afternoon or Parcelfarce are going to get yet another pissed off customer bending their ears.
Evri... Seller booked a 24hr delivery on Sunday July 30. As of today (8 Aug) it's made it as far as his local depot.