Here is an article from this months 4wd monthly, this bloke needs a dead set kick in the arse and I'm not talking about the bloke with the 100 series sorry a bit long but here it is !!!!!!!! RAIDED
This is a copy of a letter of complaint I sent to the RTA about an incident that happened to me the other day.
I was out at work and got a call from my head office that some RTA agents' were at my office looking for me. I called them back a few hours later, and they told me they wanted to inspect my vehicle (4WD), as a source said it was concerned about its height.
On that day I faxed the engineering certificate/receipts to the RTA agent, which should have been on the RTA computers the week I got the certificate, as I can swear that it was handed in.
The agent still wanted to inspect the vehicle, so I told him I was very busy that week and to see if it could happen towards the end of the week.
A few days later, I'm in a meeting mid-morning and get a call from the agent again, who left a message to, call him back. In the meeting I sent him a text message back that I was going away over the weekend to western NSW and to maybe find an RTA inspector out west or reschedule. I got no response.
A few hours later, I got a call from my office saying the inspector has turned up at my office again looking for me. Gee, they don't go after major criminals or drug traffickers with such persistence. Perhaps RTA officers should join the
police force!
So I immediately called him. He then starts to tell me abruptly that if I don't meet him soon that my car will be made unregistered and I won't be able to drive it.
If he would have called on both occasions to find out where I was prior to trying to do a raid, maybe that would have been morevehicles and several motorcycles, and have to say that the BMW has worse blind spots than my modified 4WD.
It comes down to the fact that it's the driver's fault, not the vehicle, and irresponsible parents who do not keep an eye on their children!
The inspectors came out to
my home to inspect the vehicle. There was no question as to the height or stability of the vehicle, but they defected my car for not having long enough mudflaps!
Then they went at the small tow hooks/eyelets on the bullbar (which are under and recessed into the bar) and defected me on this as
well as a protrusion. I have spoken to ARB and several 4WD workshops, and they can't believe it! There are thousands of bars Like
mine out there.
And all this is from that person that runs the Pedestrian Council (as the inspector told me), and I assumed so too, as I received an email from him a while back telling me that my vehicle should be banned.
He came across the photo of my car on a wildlife rescue website, wrote the licence plate down and called his contact at the RTA! This is a shocking invasion of privacy.
What is going on with this treatment! Obviously there is not enough work going around for RTA inspectors, or they have the wrong priorities...
Peter Hardi Via email