Transferring number plates

[vetran]

Illegal plates are a pain in the arse, they mess about with a lot of ANPR systems which is a pain in the arse for me, folk putting little dots on the screw caps and stuff to make 11 into H and crap like that.

Plod could quite easily come down on this hard, they ANPR just about everywhere now, validate the registration formatting, letters sent out, car seen again without change and 100 quid fine.

Nice little earner for them.

Indeed not sure why they don't do it, they could probably crush about half the Range Rovers, BMWs & Audis on the road.

[BrilloPad]

Illegal plates are a pain in the arse, they mess about with a lot of ANPR systems which is a pain in the arse for me, folk putting little dots on the screw caps and stuff to make 11 into H and crap like that.

Why?

Plod could quite easily come down on this hard, they ANPR just about everywhere now, validate the registration formatting, letters sent out, car seen again without change and 100 quid fine.

Nice little earner for them.

[SimonMac]

Illegal plates are a pain in the arse, they mess about with a lot of ANPR systems which is a pain in the arse for me, folk putting little dots on the screw caps and stuff to make 11 into H and crap like that.

Plod could quite easily come down on this hard, they ANPR just about everywhere now, validate the registration formatting, letters sent out, car seen again without change and 100 quid fine.

Nice little earner for them.

Although if the plate is not valid, ANPR would struggle to identify it, its one of the reasons that the law states they must conform to a certain standard is so they can be read automatically.

[BrilloPad]

Indeed not sure why they don't do it, they could probably crush about half the Range Rovers, BMWs & Audis on the road.

+1

Preferably with the drivers inside.

Though I feel sorry for my sister and her husband. Driving audis for about 30 years now. When audis were sensible drivers. Though its about time they learnt their lesson and got nice cars.

[BrilloPad]

Although if the plate is not valid, ANPR would struggle to identify it, its one of the reasons that the law states they must conform to a certain standard is so they can be read automatically.

They often have checks at places like Bluewater. Where there are a lot of personalized plates. Presumably if the equipment could not read the plate then they would be pulled over?

[SimonMac]

They often have checks at places like Bluewater. Where there are a lot of personalized plates. Presumably if the equipment could not read the plate then they would be pulled over?

At Leeds festival weekend plod sit on the roundabout on the A64 which they turn into a one way street towards the site, 100 yards up the road there is a pub with a few vans and motorbikes waiting pulling over one in ten cars who don't have insurance, tax or some outstanding warrant

[minestrone]

Although if the plate is not valid, ANPR would struggle to identify it, its one of the reasons that the law states they must conform to a certain standard is so they can be read automatically.

The police will have some crazily good ANPR system they threw millions at that will work it out.

It's the noddy ones that I have to work with that struggle.

[vetran]

they really need to get a car transporter (for the ones to be crushed), prison van (for the ones with outstanding warrants) find a pub or similar (they use the Bingo hall in Slough) on a bus route and just stop any dodgy cars on the way to work. They would do a roaring trade. Just make sure I'm on the bike that morning.

[minestrone]

Why?

Just work with ANPR quite a bit, a lot of small businesses do as well and crappy registrations cause either a loss in efficiency or paying over the odds for a system than can deal effectively with them.

[minestrone]

They often have checks at places like Bluewater. Where there are a lot of personalized plates. Presumably if the equipment could not read the plate then they would be pulled over?

The processing will be done on a server which will no doubt include the call to the DVLAs web service to validate the registration is real and check where it was last seen, that will be there main concern.

Car thieves look at autotrader to find the exact same model type and colour then just copy that registration and stick it on a stolen car. That is why a lot of dealerships cover up the registrations on their cars.