{"id":5219,"date":"2013-01-19T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T09:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2013-01-11T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T14:37:02","slug":"clampdown-on-illegal-number-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2013\/01\/clampdown-on-illegal-number-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Clampdown on illegal number plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/week7-post4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5220\" title=\"week7-post4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/week7-post4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If your number plate doesn&#8217;t conform to the DVLA&#8217;s strict legal requirements, then now is the time to put it right. Police forces all over the country are clamping down on illegal plates. If you&#8217;re caught with an illegal plate you could be fined up to \u00a31000. It&#8217;s just not worth the risk.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you think your plate is legal, it&#8217;s worth double checking to make sure your plates actually do abide by the DVLA&#8217;s criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Your plate must be reflective. The front plate must have black characters on a white background, and the rear plate must have black characters on a yellow background. The only font you can use is the standard &#8216;Charles Wright&#8217; font. Any other typeface is illegal. You cannot use italics or adapt the font in any way. You mustn&#8217;t have fixing or bolts that alter the spacing of the characters on your plate or that make a character look like another character, so for example you can&#8217;t insert a bolt in the middle of a 0 to make it look more like a B.<\/p>\n<p>Even if your plate conforms to all these regulations, you also must make sure that it is clean, as it is also illegal to have an illegible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/\">number plates<\/a>, so make sure you give your number plates a wipe over once in a while or you could be fined for having a dirty number plate.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: West Midlands Police \/ Foter \/ CC BY-SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your number plate doesn&#8217;t conform to the DVLA&#8217;s strict legal requirements, then now is the time to put it right. Police forces all over the country are clamping down on illegal plates. If you&#8217;re caught with an illegal plate you could be fined up to \u00a31000. It&#8217;s just not worth the risk. Even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139,6],"tags":[142,7],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5223,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions\/5223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}