That will only help show if your claim that insurance did not go up 16 years ago was true.
to help people wanting insurance NOW, have you taken up my request to put your details into a comparison website to find out what happens to a drink driver today. I have quoted several sources that quote a 40 to 60% increase, and shown that when I put my own detail in for the renewal for my wife's car on comparethemarket.com that these are the figures that I got for a like for like comparison.
I would not hold your breath on your friend finding paperwork, not just for an insurance renewal 16 years ago, but also showing what it would have been if he had not got a drink drive conviction. It would enable, though, a check to be made with that insurance company today to see how they would deal with a DR10.
There have been 5 references in your replies to insurance not increasing, or just increasing through inflation with a DR10 including:
"Boxer, I have the paperwork here to prove you wrong regarding insurance premiums increasing with a DR10.My friend also has paperwork from his insurance company to prove you wrong."
Can you provide details of the insurance company that you used where the increase was only 'slight'? There have been several requests for you to help other drink drivers get better insurance, but nothing has been supplied.
I simply do not want people reading this thread to think that they need not worry so much about drink driving because there is no financial penalty when they go back on the road. There is, and for young drivers it can be considerable and indeed prohibitive.
Sorry Boxer but despite me saying that I had the paperwork here from my insurance renewal back in 1988 I can't find it.
However, my friend who was disqualified in the late 1990's is certain that he can find his insurance renewal paperwork.
He is currently in Plymouth visiting his poorly mother but he has been monitoring this forum.
He intends to join this forum and start posting next week when he gets back from Plymouth.
Regarding applying for insurance quotes as an experiment I have discovered a snag.
You may remember that recently I applied for an insurance quote on an Aston Martin DB7.
I later discovered that this caused searches to be registered on my credit record even though I wasn't looking or applying
for credit. Searches registered on a credit reference agency are not good for your credit record.
My previous claim that my renewal insurance only increased slightly is the truth as I have no intention to mislead anybody.
My friend's claim that his reneweal didn't increase at all is also the truth.
Hopefully his expected posting next week will remove any doubt.
I am not disputing that nowadays insurance companies may vastly increase permiums for people with a DR10 endorsement.
The insurance companies are either trying to increase profits or they think the punishments for drink driving are ineffective.
Drink drive convictions have halved over the last 25 years so obviously the punishments are effective.
There are figures to prove that the drink drive awareness course vastly reduces re-offending as Mr Price has pointed out.
Therefore why should re-insuring go up now compared to 25 years ago?