On the Road Again!

The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) has confirmed that vanishing  motorcycle licence entitlements are thankfully rare. MAG asked the DVLA  questions following recent news stories of a motorcyclist being denied a  licence for over three years thanks to a mistake they made. The story of the three-year wait to resolve a mistake and the  compensation received by Paul Olsen was covered on a number of media  outlets in early January.  Coverage appeared in MCN, VisorDown, The Sun,  and Metro.  This coverage led to MAG receiving emails from concerned  riders.  The need for Mr Olsen to resort to the Parliamentary and Health  Ombudsman to get the case resolved is certainly not a good look for the  DVLA. MAG's Director of Campaigns & Political Engagement, Colin Brown, said:  "Unsurprisingly, losing your right to ride your motorcycle due to an  administrative error is not a situation that riders want to face.  Stories ofte...

Every year we have to pay a tax to the Government to be able to use our vehicles on the road. Over the years it has had a few different names and since the 1930's hasn't been spent on the roads! It simply goes in the Government's coffers to spend where they like. In a pandemic we are expecting the huge financial burden to be spread across taxation, both directly like income tax and of course, indirectly on things like purchases and that includes petrol and the vehicle tax.  The Government still calls it "Vehicle Tax" although loads of pedants will try and make out it is an emissions tax.  It is vehicle tax that used to be based on the engine capacity of the vehicle and vehicle type. Now it is based on bands depending on the noxious emissions your vehicle pumps out. As Pepé is currently untaxed and in the garage, I won't have the reminder form V11 sent to me from the licencing agency. I will have to login to the vehicle tax website and use the unique vehicle n...