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Can Garda use E-flow

  • 05-07-2013 11:46am
    #1
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,940 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey folks
    Just a quick question, can the Garda use E-flow ,
    I ask because a freind hasn;t taxed his car in 2 months and told me he's going to tell the Garda it was off the road but if he used any of the e-flow toll bridges in that time wouldn't they just check and catch him out ?


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  • #2
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    They have bigger fish to be catching.They'll stamp the form and send him on his way to the tax office.


  • #3
    markpb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,388 ✭✭✭markpb


    Not yet but it's been mooted in the press several times lately that it could happen soon.


  • #4
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Hey folks
    Just a quick question, can the Garda use E-flow ,
    I ask because a freind hasn;t taxed his car in 2 months and told me he's going to tell the Garda it was off the road but if he used any of the e-flow toll bridges in that time wouldn't they just check and catch him out ?

    eflow works from the tag hanging from the rearview mirror, not reading the licence plate, the eflow system has no way of knowing what car passes through it, only what tag. So your friend could easily say he gave his tag to a friend/family member.


  • #5
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    The off the road loophole was closed on Monday. He's going to have to backdate his tax now.


  • #6
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,706 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Not only that, they will carbon date the fingerprints of the steering wheel. Your 'friend' better have an excuse why he was sitting in his car for two months without moving or he may as well buy soap on a rope now


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  • #7
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,940 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Seaneh wrote: »
    eflow works from the tag hanging from the rearview mirror, not reading the licence plate, the eflow system has no way of knowing what car passes through it, only what tag. So your friend could easily say he gave his tag to a friend/family member.


    The above can't be right ,because if you dont have a tag you can still use the M50 and if you don't pay they send you a letter with your Licence plate number and what you owe ?


  • #8
    beerbaron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭beerbaron


    Orion wrote: »
    The off the road loophole was closed on Monday. He's going to have to backdate his tax now.

    Wrong.


  • #9
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,940 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Orion wrote: »
    The off the road loophole was closed on Monday. He's going to have to backdate his tax now.


    Not entirley true both the old and new system will work untill september to give people a chance to come forward now,


  • #10
    Doctor Strange
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Doctor Strange


    Seaneh wrote: »
    eflow works from the tag hanging from the rearview mirror, not reading the licence plate, the eflow system has no way of knowing what car passes through it, only what tag. So your friend could easily say he gave his tag to a friend/family member.

    ...Where did you get that information? If that was the case, how do they know what address to send the bill to when someone goes through WITHOUT the eflow tag? Each tag is registered to a particular registration.


  • #11
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Unforgettable _ Fire wrote: »
    ...Where did you get that information? If that was the case, how do they know what address to send the bill to when someone goes through WITHOUT the eflow tag? Each tag is registered to a particular registration.

    The picture is only taken if you don't have a tag.

    If you have a tag, they camera doesn't record your registration.

    If the op's friend was using the tolls regularly, he either has a tag or is an idiot.


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  • #12
    twinytwo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,410 ✭✭✭twinytwo


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Hey folks
    Just a quick question, can the Garda use E-flow ,
    I ask because a freind hasn;t taxed his car in 2 months and told me he's going to tell the Garda it was off the road but if he used any of the e-flow toll bridges in that time wouldn't they just check and catch him out ?


    or he could pay his tax like the rest of us?


  • #13
    Shedite27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,466 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    Takes a pic of your LPN everytime. I put my tag in my wife's car once and it cased meyhem in the eflow system. So yeah, eflow know when each car has been through the toll.

    But unfortunately no, Gardai don't currently have permission to use it, would be great if they did tho, catch all those tax cheats.


  • #14
    General General
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    Depends. If the GS in question looks it up, it could be a talking to or worse.

    What I'm sayin' is, if that GS is on AH, your friend is now f`cked.


  • #15
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Not entirley true both the old and new system will work untill september to give people a chance to come forward now,

    Suppose you're car is off the road,you still have to pay road tax?


  • #16
    wally1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭wally1990


    Originally Posted by Seaneh
    eflow works from the tag hanging from the rearview mirror, not reading the licence plate, the eflow system has no way of knowing what car passes through it, only what tag. So your friend could easily say he gave his tag to a friend/family member.

    completely incorrect Information!!!!.

    and no the garda dont use eflow to check if a vehicle is taxed. eflow is only used for collection of toll road.


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