Standing on the road side in a small street, I encounter a very tense 10 minutes as an enforcement officer tows away an untaxed vehicle without the owner in sight. Equipped with automatic number plate recognition technology, and some big orange clamps these enforcement officers don't muck around if you don't pay up.
If someone doesn’t pay their car tax they will be sent two letters by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. If they still don’t pay they will find themselves on the clamping list.
This is what happened here in Port Talbot, the previous day an enforcement officer had gone out in a DVLA van to clamp this vehicle and had given the owner 24 hours to pay their tax and a release fee. Unfortunately they didn't, so they retuned to collect the vehicle.
