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Is it still illegal to run a commercial vehicle without an owners name on it?
I have noticed lately that there are quite a few vans and large vehicles on the road without public identification. I remember as a child being told that this illegal, just wondered if it is still so.
I am sure the owner's name (whether an individual or a company) had to be on commercial vehicles.
The registration only counts as official identity, not public identity.
I forgot to mention I was a child in the 1940s
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- Robert JLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
When I was young it was definitely a legal requirement, but it was phased out some decades ago.
I'd guess probably about 1982 - that's when they dropped the requirement to register _all_ business names including non-limited firms and sole traders.
Prior to that, you could not run a business of any sort without the trading name being registered with the government.
Edit - link to the business names info and an example old certificate.
When those laws were in force, any business could be located from it's name, so having the name on a vehicle made sense.
Once the business register was discontinued, they would have been pointless other than for advertising.
Source(s): http://www.topenterprise.co.uk/noticeboard/what's_... http://www.charlesworth-son.co.uk/images/CS-Regist... - bardLv 78 years ago
It's never been illegal, there have always been plenty of commercial vehicles around without an owner's name on them.
