WA vehicle licence stickers gone

Mal, i would say if you have paid the bill that you would also get a receipt for the said reg. or license.
Providing you carry it with you would/should be ok. to prove other wise


Bob.

Mal,
"If not, how do I prove that my vehicle is licensed"

obviously your not a politician or civil servant, I bet the answer is - they won't know.

Just imagine you get stopped at the back of beyond, the man in blue asks you to produce your vehicle registration paperwork, that you have never kept in the car in case it gets pinched anyway, and you tell him the paperwork is at home in Perth.

Wonder if he will believe you, or maybe the guy who is similarly stopped while driving YOUR car, that he stole that night, and you did not known it was even missing.

You may now have to prove you own the car too?

Maîneÿ . . .

There has been a national register of vehicles available to the cops for years. This is a very late response by the authorities to that technology. Sometimes the simplest things take the longest. In NSW for a few years now we have been able to register our vehicles on line. There was no need for a cash register imprint on the rego sticker to prove that you had paid it. So why have the B-----y thing in the first place?

teege

We lived in Scandinavia for 2 years and in Finland we had a car with no registration label. We travelled throughout Europe & England and were never once asked why we didnt have a rego label.

I would love to see the rego label given the flick. It would save me a frustrating job every 12 months.

But am I who I think I am and do I really own the vehicle. Best I carry a drivers licence boat driver licence trailer licence passport fishing licence radio licence and pretty soon an AUSTRALIA card. Well bugger them all, those gestapo B's. Its nice to go to Vietnam or Indonesia sometimes and feel like a free man for a change.

Owen

I was talking to the girl at the Post Office the other day about this and she heard it wasnt set in concrete yet.

The day isnt far away when your car will have a bar code or mobile phone transmitter that alerts the cops an unlic car is on the road

In Victoria, we have our rego number in large print on the rego sticker so the toll cameras can have another check on the vehicle. I assume it is a help to pick up cars with stolen plates etc using the toll roads.

G'day Mal

The states are now linked (have been for sometime) so it's a simple matter of typing your rego number into the correct screen and bingo!

Having a sticker on your windscreen means zilch!! The registration could have been cancelled for many reasons, may not have been paid in the first place, etc etc etc.

Do NOT carry your registration papers unless you plan to sell your car while travelling. If someone steals your car, papers in the glovebox, sign the papers and sell it to the first unsuspecting person and nick off with the $$$'s. Of course, if they were to sell it to a dealer then a check is done, but they wouldn't be going down this road (pun intended).

The only proof you need that your vehicle is registered is to pay the registration by the due date.

Otoh, it's an offence NOT to produce your driver's licence atm, so make sure that's in your wallet...again a glovebox is definitely not a suitable place.

Hope this helps?
Bronwyn ;-)

I've just renewed my car registration, due in August, and received the usual windscreen decoration.

Don't know whether it is still the case, but when I was a kid in WA, we used ti have a bike number plate on every push bike