SORN is not a 'legal' solution.
The Law (The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002), which covers SORN, does not allow this.
To be under SORN the vehicle must be in the UK although not on a road maintained at public expense. If a vehicle is not in the UK, SORN declarations are not correct and should they find out, no doubt the DVLA will make far greater claims for penalties and possible charges for making false declarations.

And putting it on a truck may not be a foolproof soloution as it will mean UK Customs will have a declaration of the truck's cargo and report the vehicle's re-importation - thus proving it had been outside UK and therefore not eligible for the SORN Declaration previously made.
False declaration = fraud?

The Law and DVLA's attitude are a thorough mess for longer term travellers - not helped by blatently incorrect information given out by DVLA and DirectGov websites who are wrongly seeking to collect taxes/penalties/etc that are not due under Acts of Parliament.

I summarised my understanding of the whole situation of SORN, MOT, Registration, etc in Post 89 on this thread http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...g-term-39472-6

There has been nothing further on the 'apparent solution' we found for my friend. She plans driving her car back to UK at some point in 2011. I will be watching closely and advise the thread.

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