Some countries will give you a lot of grief at the border if all the paperwork is not in the same name, and you do not have other valid documentation explaining the reasons for the different names. Morocco was one and Turkey another. Neither require carnets but they did query me because the vehicle was registered to a German company (because as an Australian, I can't register and insure it in Germany) and I only had a receipt for the purchase written on the company letterhead. Had to do a fair bit of fast talking for them to accept it and let me in. In Turkey it was only luck that one of the customs officers walking past could speak English and I could explain the situation and he smoothed the way.

Not a lot of vehicles driving around overseas for a year or more are legally still registered back home. Any vehicle needing a safety inspection can't be reregistered so there goes half the vehicles on the road. British vehicles have to be SORNed and the MOT isn't valid so that is another whole lot. Any vehicle from NSW too. And California and several other states in the US

Obviously the problem is generally ignored by officialdom, but it does raise the real problem that most insurances are conditional on the vehicle being legally registered. Maybe travlers don't have many serious accidents.

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Tony
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