TV licence, help me to understand

Actually, you pay VAT on red diesel - what you don't pay is the hydrocarbon duty (about 60p per litre)

Fun fact: agricultural diesel in Ireland is green...

I got dipped by HMRC a couple of weeks ago, in the queue for the Tyne Tunnel. Nothing to fear though no agricultural diesel in my tank... it also doesn't have any of the modern additives that regular diesel does so injectors often go bad if you use it - and laundered fuel is enough of a problem in Norn Iron that some manufacturers no longer warrant diesel injectors (and they aren't cheap to get replaced)
 
So can I buy a tractor and drive it around all the time on red ? Always a tractor on the road around here so perhaps that's what everyone's doing. Some of them aren't slow too. Trouble would be getting SWMBO and the kids around in / on it.
 
i don't think you even need to bother with licences, nobody ever gets pulled over in a tractor. can you even have grandfather rights on a driving licence?, surely just inheriting a driving qualification makes a bit of a mockery of the DVLA,
 
I think he's just young, Sean. I seem to remember that I 'inherited' the right to drive tractor, tractor with trailer up to 10 tons (maybe now tonnes) and a 10 ton truck, along with all manner of grass cutters and largely Council operated machines. (My eyes aren't good enough to read all that stuff on the back of these new fangled, plastic licences - I can make out I have most of 'em covered.)

Just so's you know, T, 'Grandfather Rights' doesn't mean inherited, but that we grandfathers are considered wise enough, mature enough and just generally fine, upstanding citizens, experienced in the ways of the world and thus - obviously - capable of driving all sorts of vehicles along the Queen's Highways, even when we leave our glasses at home.
 
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thackeray said:
i don't think you even need to bother with licences, nobody ever gets pulled over in a tractor. can you even have grandfather rights on a driving licence?, surely just inheriting a driving qualification makes a bit of a mockery of the DVLA,
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It's all a moving of goal posts. When us old un's passed out test it qualified us. These days people passing can't even drag a trailer.
 
Come to think of it and if I wasn't being lied to, you didn't even have to pass a test during the last war, just apply for a licence. On the basis of my mother's second husband's driving, I believe the story!
 
Bechet said:
Come to think of it and if I wasn't being lied to, you didn't even have to pass a test during the last war, just apply for a licence. On the basis of my mother's second husband's driving, I believe the story!
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That's how it works for TV licences, I believe. No test required. :p:p
Trying to remain on-topic as requested by the moderators
 
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