New tough Victorian roadworthy rules

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by jack neville

Mike what are you trying to do? We have a very good club permit scheme in Victoria. 45 and 90 day permits. Better than any previous schemes we have ever had. The roadworthy requirements are designed to get the shitheaps off the road. i.e. the modern rust buckets and bombs owned by people who could not give a shit about what they drive or how it mght impact on other road users. I have friends in the trade doing roadworthys. they have to cop the extra baggage but as Tim Scivens says they will pass on the costs Big deal, welcome to Carbon Tax Havana! (Similar not the same). The old motoring hobby will not be impacted. We are too small in the big scope of motoring things. Studies have shown that roadworthiness of vehicles actually plays a very tiny part inroad crashes. One of the reasons that compulsory roadworthy testing on a yearly basis has not been introduced inVictoria. Aside from the corruption that it would obviously introduce.
Vic Roads is nothing more than another tax collection body. The extra crap surrounding roadworthy testing isjust justifying the costs involved. Take a pill and chill out. It won't affect you. Or us.

I'm just a tad worried that people will buy old worn out clunkers and get reg. on the CH scheme . It could happen .

You have to admit that some of the clubs don't have a strict srutineering policy , despite what the rules say. Some of the clubs are quite small and the inspectors can be unqualified anybodies eg joe blow's uncle , as long as he's a club member he can pass a vehicle as roadworthy .

Each club will interpret the rules differently . I think some clubs have a inspection day , when members bring their vehicles along for inspection .

A local here recieved a letter from his club ( a local truck club ) stating that tyres over 10 years old are not legal and any trucks will be disqualified from club reg if any tyres are over 10 years old . This is a case of a club enforcing the rules to the letter of the law , but many don't . MIKE