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The DVLA initiative to generate revenue from the sale of rights to assign cherishable registration numbers must surely help to fund the huge driver and vehicle licensing operation, perhaps to the extent that our road tax and licence fees might otherwise be significantly higher. Is that just simplistic idealism on the part of you scribe? Perhaps the revenue simply gets stirred into the mass inefficiencies of central government expenditure, our road tax certainly does. In any event the rates for licence fees and road tax are undoubtedly set to a level the market will tolerate rather than any need to fill potholes.
Just like real commerce, the former Sale of Marks function must enjoy good times
and suffer poor ones. If it really has passed, the recent recession will have produced
depressed sales figures for DVLA so it's comforting to be able to forecast a couple
of buoyant years, at least with new issue registration marks. Where the two date
identifier numeric digits in a mark can represent alpha letters it becomes much easier
to creatively represent a word or two. The '10' from March 2010 easily provides for
words such as 'CLIO' and 'TRIO', while the 60 applicable from September could simply
be used to read 'HUGO'. The alpha-
The opportunities broaden enormously if one is prepared to perform little adjustments to digits or to their spacing. A '6' which reads like a 'G' is fine where it tricks the eye naturally, but to modify the number would be illegal. Similarly, adjustments to the spacing of digits to promote the appearance as a word or words is illegal.
With the ever increasing use of Object Character Recognition software in 'Number Plate Recognition' devices to identify vehicle registration marks, DVLA, DfT and the Police are becoming more vigilant in discouraging the display of marks in anything other than the prescribed form. The OCR software isn't wonderfully accurate yet but it is improving with ongoing development and it doesn't need to be confused by incorrectly displayed plates. Where the technology is deployed for the purpose of catching villains or for stopping uninsured drivers we should welcome it, even in the present strained relationship between constabularies and drivers who see them as speeding fine revenue generators.
So it seems a little unfair to see DVLA promoting the sale of plates which don't appear to hold any cherishable value until and unless they are constructed contrary to the regulations. DVLA tick the necessary compliance box quite adequately with the issue of a warning, but nevertheless continue to offer such marks for sale.
If you haven't guessed yet, I should reveal that the increased vigilance of DVLA
and the Police has resulted in my forfeit of a fixed penalty fine and a change of
plates. I have previously been stopped and warned about the digit spacing and my
choice was to ignore the warning, so by no means am I complaining or shouting rude
names. Times are changing quickly and the Police have their job to do. But I was
mildly amused on each occasion because the constable had cited my crime as being
a part of the digit spacing which was in fact perfectly legal. On the second occasion
the officer pointed to the part of the plate which made the NPR machine stumble,
that part of the plate was perfectly within the prescribed format -
But I was still naughty Guv'nor. It's a fair cop.
Tunstead Sco Ruston