Is what you tow covered by liability insurance ?
Submitted: Monday, May 07, 2007 at 15:09
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Member - Vincent A M (NSW)
I was in Vic (
Venus Bay) for the weekend for a Surf life Saving function & one of the
young life savers had just been booked for No trailer rego. apparently in Victoria if your box trailer is a 6 x 4 or smaller it has no rego (just show the car towing its rego) but as he had a Boat on it (a surf rescue duck) it becomes a boat trailer that must be registered. Tough call for a
young guy doing the community a service at he's own cost.
I was going to lend him my NSW trailer trade plate & was told that it was Not ok because the tow car had Vic rego & would be illegal
A bit concerning considering, as this trade plate has been on many trailers towed by hire cars & 4wds in every state in Aust (I,m still waiting on a answer from NSW RTA)
However Vic roads believe that it would be illegal due to liability insurance, & that most cars towing a registered trailer from a different state, maybe not be illegal but could find that there is NO liability insurance due to the different states regs with trailers
makes you wonder
Reply By: Muddy doe (SA) - Monday, May 07, 2007 at 21:30
Monday, May 07, 2007 at 21:30
Just one more reason to completely abolish State Governments.
Get rid of them and give it all to the Commonwealth Govt to make uniform national regulations so we can stop all this endless friggin' around with 8 different sets of rules and buckpassing between who is gunna look after stuff!!!
Put the resources that are spent on State Govts into Local Govt and get some more professional people who actually know what they are doing into local councils instead of the self interested twits they have there now.
This sort of "diffences between states" stuff is just another example of how over governed we are in this country. 2 sets of politicians would be ample. 1 set to look after Australia as a country and one set to concentrate on administering good local communities within the consistent national framework.
HOW HARD CAN IT BE!!!
Off soapbox now....
Muddy
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Follow Up By: _gmd_pps - Monday, May 07, 2007 at 22:17
Monday, May 07, 2007 at 22:17
And what about the thousands of councils ... they are worse ..
even more idiots there ...
it's the nature of the beast when "elected" people run the show ..
It's the same with teachers ... not the brightest ones you get for the job
have fun
gmd
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