pappajohn
LIFE MEMBER
I do not believe it is possible for anyone to constantly evade MOT, tax and insurance.
to be perfectly honest i dont think they(travellers) do.
dont forget, now the authorities can impound and crush your vehicle if it isnt above board.
from here on in i will refer to the folks in my tale as gypsies as they never objected to the word.
when i was a nipper we lived in a homebuilt caravan (built on a 4 wheeled drawbar farm trailer and towed with a 3ton bedford tipper truck)next to a Gypsy families "home" base on a local farm.....yes, most have a permenent base....and was freinds with the son, and his family including his romany grandmother. god bless her.
my dad took us all over the uk looking for work.....he was a joiner/carpenter and i do remember we wildcamped...a lot!!! so its nothing new.:thumb:
the gypsy families obligatory transit pickup (stereotyping)was always being repaired, washed and cared for.
if you werent going to insure, tax and test it why bother...you could always steal another one.(stereotyping againoh
their vans, both living and sleeping vans, where immaculately clean and you took your shoes off at the door...compulsory.
they paid the farmer rent on the land so in effect they paid rates, both general and water.
the majority of gypsies are no different to any of us except they choose to live in a box on wheels and come and go as they please as we did for the first 6 years of my life.
i can class myself as an "ex" gypsy and i aint offended.
that was from 1957 to 1963 when my father died.
i often wonder how long we would have continued "travelling" had he not died?