NSW: No More Rego Stickers

[ray38l]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Motorcyclists have been pushing for years to have a "collective rego" as many motorcyclists own more than one bike, and you can't ride more than one at a time...not to mention how rare it is for someone to loan someone else thier bike to ride.
The idea was that you pay one basic registration fee as we pay now, and then a further small fee for each vehicle added to that rego. The registration plate would then be swapped between vehicles. The fraud aspect of it was handled by a suggestion that if you were caught with the plates on a vehicle (say a mates bike instead of one of yours) not listed on your "collective rego", then they were all cancelled and you were excluded from the collective rego system for having abused the privelage, and you'd have to go back to the normal "register each one seperately" system.
The government isn't "missing out on rego money", and is in fact making some money they wouldn't have had before. This is because I know guys with ten motorcycles in roadworthy condition that they would love to ride, but don't because of the crippling cost of all the registrations. I have two in the shed myself unregistered, but like the other guys we will never register all of them on normal rego or restrictive club rego, so they just sit there and get ridden around the yard now and then.

Of course, this sounds like entirely too much common sense for the government to ever consider it.

you beat me to it. My plan is for cars but.
I have 3 cars and at any one time only 2 are registered. Its too costly having 3 registered.
A good system would be one when you register the person to the rta instead of the car. So you would pay one rta fee and as long as the car is roadworthy and has compulsory insurance paid up you can drive any car you own with one number plate. If they were serious you could also have one ctp greenslip per person because you can only drive one car at a time.
Obviously my very basic idea would need a lot of tweaking to get it right but it could work.

[landau460]

they will miss out on their fine for not displaying label. See the other states have looked at the pros and cons and worked out that the amount of motorists being pulled over fined for not displaying sticker is out weighed buy the cost of all those labels out there.

[LTDHO]

Originally Posted by Elks

Like if you're over .05 If you're unregistered and on the road when you shouldn't be, you're at fault.

Sorry mate, not the case. "Shouldn't be there" doesn't make you liable.

[aussie muscle]

Originally Posted by GTPete

I wonder if number plates will eventualy come out with a second hidden identify to reduce the risk of this hapening. Similiar to datadots.

british now have plates that if removed will self-destruct (text actually come apart, making it unreadable). i'd imagine we'll get these as soon as license plate theft becomes a major issue (steal plates, rack up a heap of unpaid tolls, bill goes to real owner).

[billy302]

I'm a retired engineer and last year on a trip in the country (WA) got into conversation with Police while they had a break. They showed me the car.
There are 3 additional cameras added to the vehicle 2 facing forward and 1 to the rear. The officers need to do nothing once the system is initialised. The system automatically scans licence plates and checks the database automatically, alerting the officers when necessary. The only glitch in the system is obscured number plates; that is if the numbers are not clear and miss read by the system. The system can also alert the officers if the owner of the vehicle has their licence suspended or cancelled.
You only have to look at the numbers of offenders caught in WA This year alone.
This I feel is a good thing for us all. I don't necessarily agree with the fines but getting suspended drivers and unlicensed vehicles off the roads can only be good.