Is it possible to drive another person's car?

Driving a third party vehicle

It is a common practice, at several levels and transversal to different types of car users: professionals, haulers, but also simple spouses and family members, often find themselves driving third-party cars.
Fake news is circulating on the web according to which this practice is illegal and prohibited by the Highway Code or by ordinary law, sanctioned with fines of different amounts. Instead, it should be specified that the news is actually untrue. To be more rigorous, this is an inaccurate and erroneously spread opinion.

What does the law say?

The normative reference is paragraph 4 bis, inserted in article 94 of the Highway Code by law no. 120 of 2010 and implemented by the new article 247 bis of the Implementing Regulation.
The law, in the most absolute way, does not establish that it is not possible to drive a vehicle registered to another person. The category to which the legislation refers concerns rather a continuous use of the motor vehicle.

This means that anyone can drive a third party car without incurring an administrative penalty.
Instead, what is not allowed is to drive a car, a motorbike or a truck headed to others continuously and for long periods. chadwell heath taxi

Company cars

This is the case, for company cars, where, for example, the employee is entrusted with a car, with which he travels every day, albeit for work reasons. But how to do it in these cases to avoid being fined in case of police control? The law in question explains how, for every use of a vehicle for a period longer than 30 consecutive days, it is necessary to change the headings of the registration documents. More in detail, the data relating to the person who will drive the car (entrusted with the free loan procedure) must be reported: "on the vehicle registration document and in the National Vehicle Archive".

The law is not retroactive and therefore applies exclusively to all those acts put in place starting
The obligation, therefore, does not exist for all the acts preceding this date, for which the possibility of communicating the transfer of the vehicle to third parties is provided.

What about the family?

It is then the same law that expressly excludes cases of cars registered in the name of a family member or partner. So the children can use the car of the parents and the spouses that of the partner, without any danger. Similarly, friends can borrow an acquaintance's car, even for a few days.
The obligation, we repeat, takes place only for continuous and prolonged use beyond 30 days.
Professionals, companies or, in any case, those who do not comply with the legal obligation to drive a car registered to third parties