A tad harsh IMO. Hindsight's wonderful, but no-one suggested that the OP had any defence at the NTO stage and even then no guarantee that the discount would be re-offered with unsuccessful reps (whenever submitted) and therefore their equation was one of the certainty of a NOR, the possibility that the authority would mess this up and re-offer the discount against the possibility that there wasn't a traffic order, something which wasn't on anyone's radar screen at any time.