Jason71
Well-Known Member
yeah you should be able to but the system that does the VED and the one the police use are not linked in real time only by nightly batch jobs so if the batch has not run (and it may have not run on the bank holiday, or it may have crashed) this sort of thing can happen. The safest thing is not to wait until the day after your tax expires to buy the new one tbh. Should not be necessary but it does eliminate the risk of this happening.Ticketed at 1.30pm on 2nd. But email on 1st states you can drive immediately.
DVLA's systems are not as up-to date as you think. The Drivers system of record is a mainframe launched in 1990 and the vehicles backend system is circa 2003