Garda check points

pm. · 10-12-2016 10:05PM #1

I travel the country and over the last week or so I have seen 6 check points for tax and insurance probably nct too.. Seen at least 1 car being confiscated at almost all checkpoints.. It's great to see imo

Did anyone else notice an increase in check points

irishgeo · 10-12-2016 10:07PM

pm. wrote: »

I travel the country and over the last week or so I have seen 6 check points for tax and insurance probably nct too.. Seen at least 1 car being confiscated at almost all checkpoints.. It's great to see imo

Did anyone else notice an increase in check points

Isn't it the Christmas crack down for drink driving. Great to see.

Ciano35 · 10-12-2016 10:13PM

pm. wrote: »

I travel the country and over the last week or so I have seen 6 check points for tax and insurance probably nct too.. Seen at least 1 car being confiscated at almost all checkpoints.. It's great to see imo

Did anyone else notice an increase in check points

Yeah I didn't meet a single checkpoint in nearly 4 years, but in the last month I met 3. And 2 of them were in the same place within 3 days of each other.

TheBody · 10-12-2016 10:14PM

I drive around 40,000 km per year and I've been driving on a full licence for around 15 years. I've never been breathalysed and I only recall going through one checkpoint in all that time!!

I don't know why I never seem to meet checkpoints.

frozenfrozen · 10-12-2016 10:49PM

TheBody wrote: »

I drive around 40,000 km per year and I've been driving on a full licence for around 15 years. I've never been breathalised and I only recall going through one checkpoint in all that time!!

I don't know why I never seem to meet checkpoints.

that's mad, I'm only driving a few years and have been through easily 15 checkpoints or more. Never breathalysed but I don't do much driving around mornings or nights so would be outside the usual windows for them.

Paulw · 10-12-2016 11:03PM

A lot more checkpoints in the last few months. Mostly dealing with these gang killings, but while they're there, they check tax, insurance, etc. I've seen a good few cars confiscated.

Great to see. Now, if they would only catch people using phones when driving.

fg1406 · 10-12-2016 11:14PM

I do 90% of my driving in a large town and the gardai here go through phases where they will for 3 weeks in a row have a checkpoint in one spot in town and then disappear for a year. None yet since the Christmas period began. I wish there was more or at list a more visible presence on the roads as the behaviour of some drivers on the road is appalling.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 10-12-2016 11:19PM

Take the car for not having NCT or worse insurance. Taking the car for lack of tax is pure stupid. On the spot fine way better job imo. Taking someone's car just lines the pockets of the tow truck lads, nobody else.

tayto lover · 10-12-2016 11:21PM

5 last week.
2 in 10 miles on the same trip.

pm. · 11-12-2016 11:24AM

I didn't notice them with a breathalyzer at any of the check points, but it looked to me like there were not taking it lightly. Two of the check points had armed guards and the all had a minimum of 6

StereoSound · 11-12-2016 02:34PM

It's great seeing check points, I love when you see those ****ters being scraped up off the road because of no NCT In years.

Donal55 · 11-12-2016 02:36PM

3 around Athlone last week. Checking lights as well by the looks of things at one of them.

wotswattage · 11-12-2016 02:53PM

Are they really that effective? Manys a car I've seen do a U-turn when they see a checkpoint and nobody ever follows them, likewise a few weeks ago I came across one under a bridge on a dual carriageway and saw several cars just suddenly dart up the off ramp and avoid the checkpoint... If it were me again I'd go up the off ramp I probably spent 5 minutes in the queue to get breathalysed!

Stheno · 11-12-2016 02:56PM

About 8 in the past six weeks

One_Of_Shanks · 11-12-2016 02:57PM

Stheno wrote: »

About 8 in the past six weeks

8 in 6 weeks? Jesus that's some going! Were they all for tax/NCT or what?

johnnyryan89 · 11-12-2016 02:58PM

A lot of check points around Limerick City this month, talking a minimum of at least five a day. Think they even had one on one of the main streets in the city centre last Sunday or the one before that and done every car on that street for parking on double yellows.

Stheno · 11-12-2016 03:02PM

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

8 in 6 weeks? Jesus that's some going! Were they all for tax/NCT or what?

I think three or four were due to crime there was an attempted gangland shooting in our area so those checkpoints had armed plainclothes cops on them.

The rest were tax/insurance

Since august I'd say i hit one a week

amcalester · 11-12-2016 03:05PM

Hugh Mungus wrote: »

Take the car for not having NCT or worse insurance. Taking the car for lack of tax is pure stupid. On the spot fine way better job imo. Taking someone's car just lines the pockets of the tow truck lads, nobody else.

IF they haven't paid the tax what makes you think they'll pay the fine.

newacc2015 · 11-12-2016 03:12PM

Hugh Mungus wrote: »

Take the car for not having NCT or worse insurance. Taking the car for lack of tax is pure stupid. On the spot fine way better job imo. Taking someone's car just lines the pockets of the tow truck lads, nobody else.

If someone has been bothered to pay their car tax for years, why would they bother paying a fine? If you impound their car, they will definitely pay their road tax. I know who told me their friend hadnt paid his road tax in nearly 5 years. He got stopped by the Gardai and had his car impounded. He had to pay well over €3.5k in back taxes. If you dont want to pay line the pockets of tow truck guys, pay your car tax in the first place. It is not that difficult.

IMO it is very easy to avoid Gardai checkpoints if you live within the canals (well up until the gangland shooting started). I have only once seen a check point in between the canals. I imagine the gardai dont want to make the bad congestion worse by checking cars

iwillhtfu · 11-12-2016 03:13PM

Paulw wrote: »

A lot more checkpoints in the last few months. Mostly dealing with these gang killings, but while they're there, they check tax, insurance, etc. I've seen a good few cars confiscated.

Great to see. Now, if they would only catch people using phones when driving.

I don't now why they don't employee a guard on a motorbike to trawl the major arterial routes for this.

A guard driving from Portlaoise - Dublin a rush hour would burn through several ticket books before he hit Dublin.

As before though driving 20 years now 30-40k per year nationwide and I've been breathalyzed once and been through 2 check points all in the last 4 years. I have yet to see one this year.

The no tax issue I could pass on as personally I think it should be fuel based but the mobile phone/make up use is beyond ridiculous.

nice_guy80 · 11-12-2016 08:00PM

The gardai pay increases have to be paid for

nice_guy80 · 11-12-2016 08:01PM

newacc2015 wrote: »

If someone has been bothered to pay their car tax for years, why would they bother paying a fine? If you impound their car, they will definitely pay their road tax. I know who told me their friend hadnt paid his road tax in nearly 5 years. He got stopped by the Gardai and had his car impounded. He had to pay well over €3.5k in back taxes. If you dont want to pay line the pockets of tow truck guys, pay your car tax in the first place. It is not that difficult.

IMO it is very easy to avoid Gardai checkpoints if you live within the canals (well up until the gangland shooting started). I have only once seen a check point in between the canals. I imagine the gardai dont want to make the bad congestion worse by checking cars

They run checkpoints between 11am and 2pm

bigroad · 11-12-2016 08:30PM

What do all these Guards do for the rest of the year.
When the Christmas season comes around,do management go into a warehouse somewhere and release a few thousand Guards.

11-12-2016 10:08PM

Last time i saw a checkpoint was about 2 years ago- I drive all over the country

nice_guy80 · 11-12-2016 10:34PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Last time i saw a checkpoint was about 2 years ago- I drive all over the country

I do about 500 miles a week
I've seen two in 2016

Grueller · 11-12-2016 10:37PM

I do about 30000 km per year. Breathalysed only once in around 20 years. That was on a Good Friday. Catholic Ireland is apparently well dead.

BettePorter · 11-12-2016 10:44PM

Can't believe all of those who say they only see one or two in few months / years. In the north east here i'd meet at least 3 a week.

Grueller · 11-12-2016 10:51PM

iwillhtfu wrote: »

the mobile phone/make up use is beyond ridiculous.

This. Two pet hates are texting/online while driving and applying fcuking mascara. No eyes on the road at all while doing this ****.

nice_guy80 · 11-12-2016 10:57PM

BettePorter wrote: »

Can't believe all of those who say they only see one or two in few months / years. In the north east here i'd meet at least 3 a week.

that's cause Gerry Adams and his buddies are driving around in blacked out vans

Stheno · 11-12-2016 11:05PM

nice_guy80 wrote: »

that's cause Gerry Adams and his buddies are driving around in blacked out vans

And its regular enough that the m1 southbound is closed to force people through an off ramp looking for illegals usually around dundalk

Noveight · 12-12-2016 05:03AM

I do up to 600km on a busy week and can only remember meeting 2-3 checkpoints this year.

Haven't seen a customs checkpoint dipping for diesel in quite a while.

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