AlanI
Registered user
Well, no sooner have the French discovered a new way to make money i.e. the requirement to carry a breathalyser (or two LOL) than our friends the Austrians and Italians have also jumped on the bandwagon.
Vehicles are now being random checked with discrepancies in registration documents being sought. If one is found it's a €500 fine..........on the spot if that's not a good incentive to check every 't' is crossed I don't know what is.
In Germany old number plates used to have a hyphen following the place of registration letters e.g. XX - YY1234 so someone living in Stuttgart say and having a personalized plate (as far as they go here) with the initials AB could have a plate looking like S AB1234 or, in the old days, S-AB1234. Now, although this hyphen has been done away with on the plates themselves, registration documents in general still include it although this appears to vary from State to State. With or without this hyphen the document is perfectly legal...........unless you happen to travel through Austria or France that is and fall foul to their money making scheme. I ask you, €500 for a discrepancy between registration paper and number plate for so small a thing even though the paper in the country of issue is perfectly legal. How do they get away with it I wonder. Needless to say, owners can have their registration document re-issued at no cost and by all accounts those unlucky to have been stung are being reimbursed by the State.
Vehicles are now being random checked with discrepancies in registration documents being sought. If one is found it's a €500 fine..........on the spot if that's not a good incentive to check every 't' is crossed I don't know what is.
In Germany old number plates used to have a hyphen following the place of registration letters e.g. XX - YY1234 so someone living in Stuttgart say and having a personalized plate (as far as they go here) with the initials AB could have a plate looking like S AB1234 or, in the old days, S-AB1234. Now, although this hyphen has been done away with on the plates themselves, registration documents in general still include it although this appears to vary from State to State. With or without this hyphen the document is perfectly legal...........unless you happen to travel through Austria or France that is and fall foul to their money making scheme. I ask you, €500 for a discrepancy between registration paper and number plate for so small a thing even though the paper in the country of issue is perfectly legal. How do they get away with it I wonder. Needless to say, owners can have their registration document re-issued at no cost and by all accounts those unlucky to have been stung are being reimbursed by the State.
