Who Takes Their Passport With Them When Travelling? I DON'T!!!!?

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A recent post on here prompted me to ask this question:

''Do you take your passport with you every time you travel your horses''??

TBH I don't ever take mine? Am I naughty?? Or just stupid! lol :)

Have any of you ever been asked for it/stopped, and what's the fine for not having the documents on you?

Should I get the passports together and take them with us, every time from now on??
 
Never take passports, too many thieves about for one and yes have been stopped, at a VOSA check which included trading standards who had no intention of matching animals to passports they just wanted to visually check the passports!! Wrote to TS following this and asked how they would go about checking 4+ animals on a lorry against passport id - answer they wont and dont!!!
 
Always take it when travelling, same as KatB vosa asked to see it. They did go into the back to see the horse, but seeing he is over 17.2hh they didn't bother to check......think they were expecting a pony!!lol!
 
I try to take mine although sometimes I forget as I don't like keeping it in the lorry. I've never been stopped but I have heard of loads of other people being stopped by VOSA.
 
Mine stays with my breakdown service papers & lorry keys so that it's always int he folder I grab before I go anywhere. When I get a lift some someone else, however, I often forget it!
 
My passports stay in lorry, as i was also stopped by VOSA and did not have the passports with me. I received a warning letter from them stating that it is a legal requirement to have a passport for each horse travelling on board.
 
I keep mine in the lorry as the horse is generally in the same location as the lorry. The one time I went in my sisters lorry I forgot my passport and we were stopped by VOSA and trading standards. They told me I did not need my passport as I was taking my horse for exercise (XC Schooling) and not a competition
 
dieseldog said:
I keep mine in the lorry as the horse is generally in the same location as the lorry. The one time I went in my sisters lorry I forgot my passport and we were stopped by VOSA and trading standards. They told me I did not need my passport as I was taking my horse for exercise (XC Schooling) and not a competition
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When I was stopped, I was taking my horse to have hydrotherapy, but they didn't ask, as they were insistant as I was travelling him, I needed the passport... There was quite a lot of confusion at the time to when you DID need a passport...!!
 
I always have mine as well as a full set of photocopies in each vehicle in case I forget to swap them over, I know they don't count for anything in theory but I figure it's better than having absolutely nothing to show them.
 
Allways- When we broke down they wouldn't take ponies home without passports. We're used to them being checked though so even for local trips it has become routine.
 
Keep them in my hat bag so it always is there - Made me think though - I take my friends horse to comps too and dounbt she has her with her! *Must remind her*
 
I hack to shows so when I do have the pleasure of riding in my sisters lorry I always forget. Never been stopped though. A friend took another friends horse with hers to a show and she was stopped, other friend hadn't picked her passport up so they just produced first friends other passport for her horse at home, it was for a grey and the one on the box was bay....needless to say it wasn't looked at as nothing was said.
 
Keep mine in the car glove box so i have always got it with me. Have been stopped in a layby for VOSA checks and trading standards were checking passports, they just stuck there head through the jockey door glanced at passport glanced and horse at then let me on my way.
However the main reason i carry mine is incase i breakdown, my breakdown policy states that if the horse needs to be recovered ( if my car broke down ) they will not transport without a valid passport. Would be enough of a nightmare breaking down without having to panic over what to do if they ask for a passport that is at home a couple of hundred miles away!
 
Inky_and_Sunny said:
Dont you have 7 days to produce the paperwork?
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NO...that's to produce your driving documents (Licence, Insurance etc) I believe it's 3 or 4 hours to produce horse passports & with the travelling we do we would not be able to comply so we always carry them with us.

Having pasports with you when travelling is a legal requirement, I cannot undertand why some people always want to evade issues. Some don't even bother with passports because they don;'t believe in them or the 'system is flawed'. It may be, but it's the law so comply!
 
Never, one horse doesn't even have one and has competed all over the UK.

Thankfully I live somewhere that doesn't subscribe to the passport nonsense!
 
always have it in bag I take in lorry - ususally going RC or BE so need it anyway but as others have said TS can ask for it at VOSA stops but I think more important as you might get away with that with slap wrist, is if you breakdown and then you'll be stuck cause a prof transporter certainly won't take your horse without it
 
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