CARAVAN WEIGHT RE-CERTIFICATION

Aussiedingo - The only way to get an "official weight" is to put your 'van on a weighbridge. "Official weights" are rarely correct anyway, they can be all over the place.
Not sure what state you're in, but in W.A. you can't re-register anything without an officially certified weighbridge ticket that shows the 'van has been weighed recently.
The rego authorities will have "manufacturers kerb weights" for every make model and year of vehicle ever built, on record - but I doubt if they'd have caravan manufacturers "official weights" on record, because there have been too many caravan and trailer manufacturers, and many are long gone.
Incidentally, a correct weight for a 'van or trailer means it has to be unhooked and weighed on a stand-alone basis - otherwise the drawbar weight isn't included in the tare.
Naturally, you'll want to ensure that kerb weight is as low as possible for rego costs, so make sure the 'van is totally and completely empty when weighed.

Cheers, Ron.

if it is 40 years old, it wont have VIN plate and maybee not even a chassis number.

do you have any record of this van being registered in the past...rego certificates, number plates rego stickers..anything.

If you do you may be able to get a search done at QLD transport.

Having proof of being prior registered may help in getting it re registered.


However...if it has not been registered for over 25 years....there maybe not much information to be had.

There was a big software upgrade at QLD transport in the 90's, and a lot of information on trailers just disapeared or was entered eroronioulsy.

I have a trailer that I built back in the 80's and has been continuoulsy registered ever since.......they know bugger all about it and much of what they do know is wrong.

Prior to the 90's very little was actually recorded about trailers......they still record very little.....type, number of axles and GVM is pretty much it.

If they show no records about your van, you may pretty well have a blank slate.

cheers

hi
the old vans that you are referring to had the chassis numbers welded onto the a-frame for some brands eg : viscount
cheers

Thanks for that - yes my van does have the chassis number welded on it, it was previously rego in NSW & will be rego in Vic.

I'm not sure what is going on with vehicle rego records in recent times.
A few years ago, I was supposedly reliably informed by a DOTWA operative that any registered vehicle/trailer/'van, etc, totally disappeared from ALL states records, once it had been de-registered for more than 3 years.
He told me they no longer had any records of rego numbers, serial numbers, or ownership, after that period had elapsed.

However, recently, DOTWA have started online rego accounts in W.A. (DOT Direct), whereby you can register online, and look up your registered vehicle (and unregistered vehicle) records - as well as transfer vehicles, and carry out other official notifications.

I registered and was very much surprised to see vehicles that I had de-registered and scrapped over 12 years ago - vehicles I had de-registered and still own - and others that I had SOLD over 20 years ago, still listed under my name!
I also have vehicles that have been de-registered and still own, that are NOT shown. So much for rego records accuracy.

So much for "big brother"....governments simply cant achieve any consistency with their records.

One of the known issues in QLD is that a lot of information was either lost or mangled in a software upgrade back in the 90's

All transport records systems would be subject to similar problems where at some time reciords systems have to be changed and records are either manually keyed across or converted.

Of course there is always some sort of economic imperitave and some records just disapear or detail is lost.

cheers

It didnt require any modifications as the limiting factor was the chassis capacity.
The wheels, bearings, springs etc were all above the rating it obtained ans didnt need anything done to them.

Was taken from 2500 ATM to 2800 ATM