Rant of the day

Here's something else to rant about, over 600cc bikes are now £111 a year

 

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.

 

How do you go about increasing plate weights. ?

 

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

 

I knew it was something like that..... but hey @David Cooper thanks for the reminder

 

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.

 

STOP PRESS!

Rumple made it! and within the time slot too.

If you can call being 4 days late within the time slot I suppose.

So once again all is well in Johne world.

 

I ordered a small item from the PRC on the 2nd and it's just landed on our shores. The projected delivery date is 17th to 21st August so we shall see. It's low value (£8.60) so no VAT or ID. I'm expecting it to be delivered by either RM or PF as, AFAIK, they are the default mail handlers for items not sent via a private courier or shipping Co.

Edit.......just remembered I had an undelivered Ebay parcel (UK seller) a couple of months back. It was a private courier but can't honestly remember which one. It had a tracking number which just said "despatched" and in transit from day one and never progressed, nothing, just disappeared into the feckin' ether. The seller kept advising to contact the courier which turned out to be impossible by phone. Just checked the Ebay tracker and it's still showing in transit!! I did get a refund eventually but just remember that the contract to deliver anything is between the sender and the courier and is the sender's responsibility until it's delivered to you or your representative personally. Happy shopping.

 

Said item turned up today (not the "missing" one) through the letterbox so well pleased with that!

 

Paid my £100 fine and got my first 3 points in 36 years 80 in a 70 on a straight dual carriageway with little to no traffic in a hire car must be the safety aspect they want to enforce

 

Modern fines have little to do with safety, no matter how much political coverage lower rates get. If they have enough money to install humps, fix the pot holes

 

80 in a 70 makes you pretty unlucky. I thought there was a tad more leeway than that (i.e. 10% plus a bit more).

 

"leeway" and "discretionary" are - usuallly - the domains of personal intervention by a Police Officer and it's an 'unwritten rule' of discretion for them to allow 10 per cent plus 2 mph. That allowance might be dependant on a number of factors that a human (yep, traffic cops ARE, contrary to popular belief, human) can take into account - traffic volumes; weather and road conditions; manner of driving; location ..... even the driver's attitude etc., et al.

A traffic camera can't give ANY discretion - though the device's parameters are usually set up to provide some 'allowance' for error .... predominantly and historically, speedometer accuracy - and much of the process is automated so getting a ticket through a momentary or average speed camera is usually a 'not for further discussion' event. There may be grounds for appeal if the driver could show a sound explanation and reason for the error but that, I'd suggest, would be an exceptional case and highly unusual.

 

Snap same here did my safety awareness course few weeks ago.
My last SP30 was in the eighties,
On this particular occasion i was in Bridlington so not an area known to me, I did the worst thing you can do and not what I'd now recommend to anyone(in hindsight).
I was using my sat nav for direction and also for SPEED which was a huge mistake on our ever changing road speeds, sat nav said 40mph it was actually a 30mph road.
So bang to rights, mad as hell because I honestly treasure my driving record.
But speed awareness course was very informative and was kept very friendly among the group of approx 25 guys and gals in the same fix, what was surprising was we were all pretty much in the same age range 55 to 65yrs.
Shit happens !!!!!

 

I was nabbed for doing 34 in a 30 in East Yorkshire, they are keen as mustard there. It was my first speeding offence since 1989, so I guess I've done ok overall considering I go (ahem) rather swiftly at certain times. The speed awareness course was 3 hours of my life I'll never get back, but better than 3 points I suppose.