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  • 16-05-2013 11:08am
    #1
    Max Manus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭


    A guy I use to live with said he had a moped with English number plates here in Dublin. At the weekends he use to drive to the airport and never paid at the toll bridge. He said because it had English registered number plates that there was no system here for telling whether it was taxed or insured neither of which he had. Is this true and if that is the case, whats stopping criminals from stealing motorbikes here and driving them in mainland Europe without even changing the plates?


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  • #2
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,823 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Nothing.

    But they'd probably just rob a 'local' bike abroad, rather than rob in Dublin and haul it to Europe tbh..........

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  • #3
    Max Manus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Max Manus


    galwaytt wrote: »
    Nothing.

    But they'd probably just rob a 'local' bike abroad, rather than rob in Dublin and haul it to Europe tbh..........

    Are you saying that criminals can steel bikes in Europe and drive them here without even telling that they are stolen?


  • #4
    Peanut2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭Peanut2011


    Max Manus wrote: »
    At the weekends he use to drive to the airport and never paid at the toll bridge.

    There is no charge for motorbikes on the toll @ the M50.


  • #5
    Max Manus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Max Manus


    Peanut2011 wrote: »
    There is no charge for motorbikes on the toll @ the M50.

    He must of been talking sh.ite so.


  • #6
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,102 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Max Manus wrote: »
    A guy I use to live with said he had a moped with English number plates here in Dublin. At the weekends he use to drive to the airport and never paid at the toll bridge. He said because it had English registered number plates that there was no system here for telling whether it was taxed or insured neither of which he had. Is this true and if that is the case, whats stopping criminals from stealing motorbikes here and driving them in mainland Europe without even changing the plates?

    While the Gardaì don't bother with foreign registered vehicles it doesn't mean other forces don't. The PSNI will do you for riding an untaxed bike and will arrest you if it's too late to get to court, if you can't provide a UK residence. In order to use the roads in another country you need to be legal in your own and it's entirely up to you to prove your legal.

    Why would they need to steal the bike here? Just get some Irish, or UK, plates made up.


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  • #7
    gbob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭gbob


    A friend has been driving his English reg car up and down the m50 for at least 5 years and has never paid a toll or received a bill.


  • #8
    eFlow: Reps
    Company Representative Posts: 62 Verified rep ✭eFlow: Reps


    Hi MaxManus

    Motorbikes are exempt from the M50 toll and aren't required to make a payment for using the M50. All other vehicles are required to make a payment regardless of which country they are registered to.

    Hope that helps,
    Ciaran.


  • #9
    guttenberg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭guttenberg


    gbob wrote: »
    A friend has been driving his English reg car up and down the m50 for at least 5 years and has never paid a toll or received a bill.

    I hope he also lives in England otherwise how does his insurance/MOT work out?


  • #10
    gbob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭gbob


    guttenberg wrote: »
    I hope he also lives in England otherwise how does his insurance/MOT work out?

    Actually he doesn't, he complies with the requirements to have the car out of the country twice a year and it's Mot'd taxed and insured in the UK.


  • #11
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,562 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    It's still illegal (under VRT rules) for an Irish resident to drive a non-Irish registered vehicle here.

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