number plate readers

I drive a Nissan GQ diesel which is about as fast as Axle's Landrover.

Speeding fines or fast travelling won't worry me...lol

MN1,

"as they cant co-operate with each other"

Typical jumped up little wallies protecting their own piece of turf.

Iunderstand they use this technology on the M7 herein NSW.
Your number plate is noted when you drive onto tollway and it is also read when you drive off.
Some of the "boy racers" have been issued with fines and one recently brought this subject up on talkback radio.
Ithink he mentioned a period of 14 minutes? ? from one end of M7 to the end and apparently if you cover the distance in less time a "bluey" is issued.
Does anybody else know about this??

Welcome to the world of truck drivers, We've had to put up with this c rap for years in NSW. Travel between 2 cameras faster than a set time and you get booked & please explain why your truck is traveling at more than the set speed, If caught too fast they can cancel your truck rego.
Cheers Dave....

At the same time they also introduced another plate that has the European look .

In regards with the Overhead Camera's it's only been used to fine truckies if speeding or if they have driven more that the required time, i think it's 4 hours with 15 mins rest stop and at each camera location there is a braodband connection between them and the main base in Norwood I think

Hey Member Number 1,

ANPR is a different system to average speed cameras, which have been trialled, but are only in limited usage such as Truck-safe. I'm not aware of average speed cameras in SA and the distance from Port Augusta to Adelaide would be an extraordinary effort for the technology. They'd catch no-one, basically. There was an email going around about it being used on the M5 and M7, but it was a hoax.

ANPR isn't that bad a thing. It keeps those who are uninsured, unlicenced and unrego'd largely off the road. The different state database access remains an ongoing issue, but is being overcome.

Here is the state-by state use of ANPR at the mo. Talk is of making it national in teh near future, *including images of driver and passenger*

Australian Use of ANPR
General All Australian toll roads use ANPR to identify vehicles that have not use an eTag or manual payment to pay the toll. The owners of these vehicles are then invoiced either by the toll company or by RTAs on their behalf. All portable ANPR units owned by Police are able to be used in general crime investigations as well as for traffic management.

NSW
210 cameras There is extensive use of ANPR by the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) for heavy vehicle monitoring (Safe-T-Cam), Bus and Transit lane management and for specialised uses such as vehicle noise and pollution monitoring. Infringements are issued through the post by a back office facility. Police have a number of portable roadside units which are generally used in conjunction with intercept teams. Infringements are issues on the spot.

ACT
3 cameras ACT Police have portable roadside units which are use in conjunction with intercept teams. These teams often include ACT RTA staff that check vehicle safety. These units are available to the AFP generally.

Victoria
6 cameras Victoria police have several portable roadside ANPR units used in conjunction with intercept teams. Victoria’s Department of Justice has a network of heavy vehicle monitoring stations that use ANPR and VIC Roads uses ANPR to measure travel times on busy roads and advise motorists and set variable speed limits. A point to point speed monitoring network has been set up on the Hume Highway to regulate speed over distance for all vehicles. The Victorian Environmental Protection Authority and the Dept of Fisheries use ANPR to investigate incident and help regulate licensees.

Tasmania
11 cameras The Tasmanian Dept of Infrastructure, Environment and Resources uses ANPR to monitor heavy vehicles and unregistered or uninsured vehicles. Tasmania Police are not currently using ANPR.

South Australia
24 cameras South Australia uses ANPR for Policing (roadside and in vehicle units), heavy vehicle monitoring (Truckscan) in conjunction with the NSW RTA, Traffic flow monitoring and general roads regulation.

Queensland
28 cameras Police Trials, DMR, BUC, Toll Road, Travel safe

Western Australia
10 cameras WA Main Roads and WA Police use portable ANPR throughout the state. A number of fixed sites are used for monitoring busy roads and some key highways.

Northern Territory
O cameras NT Police and roads authorities do not currently use ANPR.

I totally agree with it,but they need to up the limit you get caught by,Leaving the Eastlink yesterday to go to Ringwood (Wandin 4x4 show) a motorbike come past at about 160-180k as a guess maybe more,heading for the tunnel...Heard it being wound out before seeing it and yet my cd player was on about 5 (volume) ...When i got a glimpse of it (gone) Did it hav number plates (Doubt it)..

So i guess its designed for people like my previous thread that drives 5-7 kms over the limit over an hour or two period..


Cheers

If they penalise you for going too fast between two monitored points, why not credit you part of your rego if you go through slower.

Reckon it would show both parties being commited to road safety.......watch out for low flying pigs....lol.


Cheers......Lionel.

I regularly come across the camera on a tripod reading plates, followed about 1/2 a K later by a police car diverting selected vehicles into a side street. It is quite amazing how big the pile of number plates is in the back of the paddy wagon and the steady stream of tow trucks picking up unregistered vehicles.
A good thing in my book as having an unregistered and uninsured vehicle in a prang is bad news for both parties.

Gday

Theres been one between set up for Pt Augusta-Marla for years.

Cheers

The RTA in NSW has these damn Revenue Raisers for years now , for the trucks .....I know , mongrels ,

Safe-T-Cam

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Hi all,

call me cynical, but here in in NSW we desperately need these "safety" systems. (Oh hell I keep typing incorrectly - I meant "revenue" systems.)
How else would our pollies afford $500,000 office renovations, if it wasn't for the average soccer mum and tradie doing 66k's in a 60kph zone.
I mean fair go, these blokes are doing it tough, what with their chauffer driven cars, tolls, fuel and expenses paid. Maybe we should all just get off the road so we don't hold them up for their luncheon.

Just on another issue. Speedos are so inaccurate that it is almost impossible to know your speed without a GPS.
My Fraud Ranger is about 16% out with factory tyres fitted.
(going by 2 GPS units installed)

Brian

In Vic you can be booked for 3 kph over the limit.

Motorbike speedos have more latitude for error under ADR than cars, more than 3 kph at highway speeds, and my actual and indicated vary noticeably with just a few mm of rear tyre wear.

Just have to sneeze and you're over the limit.

Yes, as posted, there are point to point speed cameras on the Hume - though those on the Craigieburn bypass only point towards you and for the moment bikes have only a rear plate.

Some of the required cameras are already in place on the Bruce H/way heading nth , Camera at bobjanes at Chermside is linked to the camera just prior to the Pine river bridge , planned rollout is for cameras all the way to Gympie , Good idea ?Bad idea ? Revenue raising or another form of LAW enforcement ?.... 3 road deaths in the last 7 day on that stretch of road.

In N.S.W. there is a loose policy, that if you have been driving for over 12 years without a conviction, you can make representations to the N.S.W. Police, asking that the fine be waived by way of a caution.

This only applies to low speeds, minor prangs (neg. driving) where no person is injured, and a clean sheet for about 12 years..

I've us my 'Get Out of Gaol Free Card', when a speed camera at Kurrajong got me for 11 km over the 60 KPH limit. That was almost 12 years ago.

My advice is this, if you get caught in N.S.W. for a low speed or minor traffic offence, don't pay the money but write a letter to the address where you send the dough. It's on the back of the T.I.N. You may not get a reprieve, but at least it might give you time to rake up the dough.

I know S.A. doesn't accept any excuse, and Vic., sometimes does.

You know there is a solution to worrying about speed & red light cameras, radar cops, and other revenue collecting technology. Pay attention to what you are doing and keep within the sped limit.

S$%t, if you want to go any faster you must be on a death wish, or have plenty of money for the extra fuel you use.

Dick

But the car in SA would start with S Victoria starting with V NSW has a N at the start European plates that is

Police in NSW are using that now amazing how many cars people caught driving un registered cars. a number of stolen cars have been caught as well along with unlicensed drivers

Of course your right.
I was talking about the 7 digit plate

These traffic cameras with number plate recognition are being used in the Adelaide Hills currently to track the movements of vehicles belonging to suspected arsonists to assist in the prevention/investigation of bushfires.

As a by-product they also filter out unregistered vehicles. I know of a workmate who paid the rego late on the wife's car and he got a fine after she passed a camera.

All for it. I have nothing to hide!

Muddy