It might look like a random collection of letters and numbers, but there is actually logic behind the number plate on your car.
From today, the format is changing slightly. Here is our guide to making sense of it all.
What is happening?
2010 marks the first big change for the new style of registration plate. Until [...]
ALLEGATIONS that Hull City Council has abused its access to drivers’ details has been strenuously denied by its leader.
Councillor Carl Minns is fuming after the local authority appeared on a list of councils banned from accessing the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) database due to misuse of information.
Councils have been given the green light [...]
TOWN hall snoops have been caught red-handed using the DVLA’s database to spy on people.
The Big Brother tactics emerged after councils were given the green light to use DVLA car registration records, strictly to track down owners of abandoned vehicles.
Instead, and in breach of the rules, “inflated” bureaucrats have been checking up on residents suspected [...]
COUNCIL bosses have apologised after the car of a soldier serving in Afghanistan was seized and removed from outside his York home.
Mark Jamieson left his Skoda Fabia in the car park near his flat in Pottery Lane when he went on a six-month tour with the Royal Logistics Corps earlier this year.
But three weeks ago, [...]
It’s not Big Brother himself you’ve got to be wary of, it’s all his snotty nosed junior siblings that you need to keep your beady eye on.
Councils have been given access to the records of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) specifically for the purpose of tracing owners of abandoned cars. But it transpires [...]
A POINTS system will stop enforcement firms from issuing tickets unfairly, according to the body that represents them.
Under current laws anyone can ticket a vehicle parked on their land.
But to track down the vehicle’s owner, private firms need access to the DVLA database.
This is only available to members of the British Parking Association’s approved scheme. [...]
The Association Of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO), the leading organisation for fleet decision-makers, is working with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to promote the significant changes being made to the Vehicle Registration Certificate (V5C), which is being rolled out from Sunday (August 15, 2010) in time for the new ‘60’-series registration plate for [...]
ROGUE car dealers will no longer be able to illegally scrap old bangers after a campaign by one of Bolton’s Euro MPs.
Chris Davies, Lib Dem MEP for the North West, pictured, has spent four years lobbying the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to issue new car registration forms to stop the operation of illegal scrap [...]
Time is being called on the activities of cowboy car scrap dealers.
A loophole in vehicle licensing rules that has allowed millions of cars to be scrapped but not deregistered is to be closed after a campaign by Liberal Democrat Euro-MP Chris Davies.
Environmentalists claim that it has led to thousands of tonnes of oil and brake [...]
Company car, van and truck drivers working in consultancy, utilities and telecoms tend to have the most penalty points on their licences – while those in the financial, public sector and health care have the least, new research has revealed.
The study by fleet software market leader CFC Solutions breaks down the percentage of drivers with [...]
