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Doive 
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May I suggest we all write to Clive Bennett, who is the Chief Exec of DVLA. No point getting in touch with a faceless customer services system as the protests will just get 'misplaced'. Best to start at the top and stay there. He's trained as an engineer, so I'd like to think he has some modicum of common sense about him.
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Doive
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Posted: 06-April-2006 at 12:25 |
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Nah, this has been in the planning for ages I think. I did indeed hear whispers of this one before, there was discussion on another website a few weeks ago, and was it not printed in Retro Cars or PPC or something like that? I'm fairly sure they released it a while ago, of course it's out for public consultation but they don't exactly announce stuff like this, if everyone actually heard it and realised the implications the place would get shouted down. And so it should, stupidity every last bit of it.
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Posted: 06-April-2006 at 11:58 |
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I don't think it's an April fool although I could be wrong. I'd heard rumblings about this before. |
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Posted: 06-April-2006 at 11:09 |
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Posted: 06-April-2006 at 10:19 |
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I maybe wrong, but wasn't this article first published on 1st April
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Posted: 06-April-2006 at 10:00 |
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I've had the misfortune to have to use it on more than one occasion and I agree. You go through about 50 different options only to end up with a repeating recorded message. To actually get through to a person I had to go through the disabled driver option. It really does take the pi$$. Like I said, kicked to death, the lot of them. |
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Posted: 06-April-2006 at 08:29 |
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doive, can you post up how and where on thire website you can vent your spleen to them? I reckon between us, and PH'ers, and the rice rocket brigade we can crash out the site with complaints. Really angry!!!!! |
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Posted: 06-April-2006 at 07:48 |
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Has anyone ever used their 'new' interactive phone line? It really is the most infuriating creation yet by mortal man. It says helpfully on the website 'you can use our phone line to renew x, y and z' but yet when you get on there it takes you around in a sequence of ever maddening recorded messages, when all you want to do is speak to someone.
It's just a big heap of government created buerocracy, and legislation like this is just yet another way of squeezing even more blood out of the motorists of this country. If they proposed this in America there would be a spectacular revolt. |
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The DVLA are a useless bunch of idiots and every single employee deserves to be taken out into the street and kicked to death. Every single one of my experiences with them has been bad. This si just typical of the kind of cr*p they come up with. I wonder how much this 'super' MOT test will cost? Possibley a new way of generating revenue. Taxing modifed cars . |
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Posted: 06-April-2006 at 07:37 |
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It's a cheap way of getting a whole new look! Just think, the fire brigade could have made me a convertible.
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Posted: 06-April-2006 at 07:33 |
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Doive relies on transit vans to modify his cars for him, wonder if car shortening will be covered.
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Doive
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I don't modify my car at all, but seriously object to this abuse of our freedom. What is wrong with someone who fits an aftermarket steering wheel to their car? How much control does this system want?! I wonder is this a government directive which has been passed down the chain of command? I'll get my opposition off to the DVLA blitzkriegfuerhers as soon as I can.
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Posted: 06-April-2006 at 04:42 |
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Check this out - this looks like it will affect most of us, especially all the track day boys...
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