Dealers

Dealer to dealer vehicle movements on trade plates

A dealer to dealer vehicle movement is stock changing roofs, not a customer taking delivery on their drive. OVM drives one roadworthy car or van on trade plates from the branch that has it to the branch that needs it. Valid MOT. Condition recorded before it leaves and again when it is signed for. Digital proof when the job closes.

OVM Ltd, Companies House SC834621. Digital proof of collection and delivery provided. 0141 459 1302.

OVM Ltd, 48 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 1BP. Telephone 0141 459 1302.

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Registration, both postcodes, date, name, company, phone and email.

Company or individual
What moves
Dealer stock, one unit
Who signs
Trade, not a retail buyer
Proof
Condition both ends
Office
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  • Our own software

    Every job is booked, tracked and closed in software we built for the motor trade.

  • Always driven

    Moved under trade plates by a driver, never loaded onto a transporter.

  • Fully insured

    Motor trade road risk while the vehicle is driven on our plates.

  • POC and POD on every job

    Digital proof of collection and delivery provided when the vehicle is handed over.

On this page
  1. What a dealer to dealer job actually is
  2. Why groups still use plates for one car
  3. The condition record is the point of the transfer
  4. What has to be true before we take it
  5. Scotland groups, English roofs, same form
  6. How to book it so the office does not guess
  7. Stock changing roofs, with a record
  8. Common questions

What a dealer to dealer job actually is

Two motor traders, two addresses, one vehicle. That covers group stock balancing, a franchise sending a car to a sister site that has the buyer, an independent buying from another independent and a trade-in that still has to physically move after the invoice.

It is not an auction collection. There is no compound gate and no release code. Authority comes from the sending manager, the keys and whoever is named on the booking. If the sending site is actually a BCA or Manheim yard, stop and book it as an auction job.

It is not a retail handover either. The person signing at the far end is trade, usually a duty manager, not a customer who was promised a walkaround. The product page that splits those two jobs is site transfers and retail handovers.

Two traders

Group stock, sister-site sales, independent to independent. The recipient is trade.

Not a compound

If the sending site is a BCA or Manheim yard, book it as an auction collection.

Site transfers and retail handoversAuction collection

Why groups still use plates for one car

A loaded truck can look cheaper when six units are going the same way on a flexible date. Dealer to dealer work is rarely that tidy. The car that sold is at the wrong prep. The courtesy car is at the satellite. The trade purchase is sitting behind another independent's lock-up and the receiving manager wants it on the forecourt tomorrow, not when a deck fills.

A driven movement does not wait for a load. One driver collects that registration, photographs it, drives it and hands it over. If the two roofs are in different nations, that is still one job. A Glasgow group sending a car to an English branch is Nationwide work, not a second product. How that coverage actually runs is on how OVM covers the UK from Glasgow.

If several cars really are a block on one corridor, say so. We will tell you a transporter is the better tool. We will not pretend six driven jobs are one truck.

How OVM covers the UK from GlasgowTrade plate delivery versus a transporter

The condition record is the point of the transfer

Internal transfers become internal disputes the moment a bumper mark appears at the receiving end and nobody photographed it at the sending end. "It was fine in prep" is a story. The digital proof is the close.

The driver records panels, mileage, keys and documents at collection, then captures a signed handover at delivery. That is the same proof trail as any other OVM movement. It is how two locations agree the stock arrived as described, without chasing WhatsApp photos from Tuesday.

Name a person at each end who can actually release and receive the vehicle. A general branch number that rings a showroom not expecting us is how the driver loses an hour in a locked yard. Put mobiles on the booking.

Photograph it first

Panels, mileage, keys and documents at collection. A signed handover at delivery. Digital proof when the job closes.

Name both ends

A switchboard that dumps us into the showroom is how a collection window dies.

Proof of collection and proof of delivery

What has to be true before we take it

Authority to take the vehicle. Keys that work. Alarm code if there is one. Enough fuel or charge to reach the first filling or charging point. A valid MOT. A person at collection who knows we are coming and a person at delivery who will sign.

Trade plates do not replace an MOT. A car going to workshop "because it will be tested at the other end" is still not legal to drive today. If it cannot legally be driven, stop. That job needs a truck. The rule, in full, is on can you move a car without an MOT on trade plates.

Can you move a car without an MOT on trade plates

Scotland groups, English roofs, same form

A lot of this work is a Scotland dealer moving stock to or from an English site. The office is in Glasgow. The job is the two postcodes. You do not bring the car to West George Street. Collection is at the sending dealer. Delivery is at the receiving dealer. That can be Aberdeen to Birmingham, Edinburgh to a South East satellite or two roofs in the same city. Scotland-only notes sit on trade plate delivery in Scotland.

Trade plate delivery in Scotland

How to book it so the office does not guess

Use the instant quote widget on this page. Registration, both postcodes, date, name, company, phone, email. In the notes, say it is dealer to dealer and name the contacts.

Do not write "vehicle movement" and assume we will know whether this is stock or a customer door. Time at each end is different. We quote every job individually. Fuel is charged separately. There is no rate card on this page.

No account is needed to ask. Most quotes come back within the hour during working hours. If the vehicle is not as described when the driver arrives, they stop and the office calls you.

Call 0141 459 1302. Email [email protected].

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Dealer stock on a forecourt ready for a trade plate transfer

In practice

Stock changing roofs, with a record

One roadworthy car or van, duty managers at both ends, photographs before it leaves. Not a customer walkaround and not a loaded deck.

Questions

Common questions

Prefer to speak to someone? Call the team.

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Is a dealer to dealer movement the same as a retail customer delivery?

No. Dealer to dealer is stock changing roofs. The recipient is another trader and the point is a condition record both ends. A retail handover puts the driver at a named customer's door. Same plates. Different job. Book the one you mean.

Do both dealerships have to be in the same group?

No. Group transfers are common, but an independent buying from another independent is the same driven product. Name the sending site, the receiving site and who can release and sign. OVM moves the vehicle. We do not write the sale contract.

Can you take several cars between the same two sites as one job?

Each registration is its own driven job on trade plates. We do not load a truck with your stock. Quote each vehicle. If a true volume load on a flexible date would be cheaper on a transporter, the office will say so.

What if the sending site is unmanned after lunch?

Then it is not a collection we can complete. Someone has to hand over keys and let the driver record the vehicle. "Leave it on the back compound" only works if a named person will still sign. Unmanned drops are how PDFs do not get signatures.

Does a Scotland to England dealer transfer need a different number?

No. One office, one number: 0141 459 1302. Nationwide in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland is outside the service. Use the instant quote widget with both postcodes.

Need stock moved between two dealer sites?

Send the registration, both postcodes and the contacts at each roof.

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