Thread: A little help required please!

track down camel landy(member on here who has toured aus for 12 months).....he will point you in the right direction

off to find his exact user name

camel_landy, maybe send him a PM

Sorry to hear that you have been given grief. Have to say I'm a little embarrassed about your experiences. I think most Australians like to think they live in a progressive country, however I am increasingly wondering these days.

Most road rules are the same Aus wide. Melbourne city has some odd hook turn thing. Where you turn right from the far left. It's not all intersections, and there are lanes and lights that indicate when you are safe to turn. But if you want to turn right and discover the turn lane is over a lane or two to your left then you a bit stuffed. Better to keep going.

Western Aus has some 90Km/h max when towing a trailer. No trailer and your good for 100 in 100 zones.

Just watch your speed in the never ending road work zones around the place. The cops like to sit just outside them and pick off speeders.
Honestly I am surprised you have been pulled over twice. Landies are on the low interest scope to police usually, as they are slow and most drivers are quite conservative.

good luck with your travels, I hope they only get better, lots better.

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registrati...dvehicles.html
http://www.aaa.asn.au/touring/bringing.htm

G'day fourwheeltravel,

The RMS (Roads and Maritime Services) link that ugu80 is for vehicles which are going to STAY in NSW, this link Visiting overseas vehicle < Get a new rego < Registration < www.rta.nsw.gov.au
applies to your situation if the vehicle is only here temporarily. This relates to NSW only bear in mind.

But if you didn't obtain the VIA mentioned, then yes, your vehicle will be deemed to be unregistered and uninsured (CTP).

I am very surprised, if you didn't have a Vehicle import approval, that they would have let you drive the vehicle of the docks. Customs are normally all over that sort of thing.
I am surprised that you even got stopped. I know people that have driven overseas registered vehicles around in australia for years and never been stopped.
(I think the rules have changed about how long you can keep the vehicle here for)

State rules don't matter in this case because it is a federal department (department of infrastructure and transport) that decides if a vehicle can be brought into australia.

Originally Posted by wovenrovings

State rules don't matter in this case because it is a federal department (department of infrastructure and transport) that decides if a vehicle can be brought into australia.

It becomes state based though (whatever state he is stopped in) if he hasn't complied with the requirements of the VIA, and as I said, the vehicle is then deemed unreg/uninsured. Even if he has the CTP on hand, if he hasn't complied with the VIA the vehicle IS unregistered and uninsured because the CTP only takes effect when the registration is current. This is also the case When a person is stopped where the vehicle registration has expired, but they have already purchased their green slip (CTP) it makes no difference as the green slip only takes effect when the registration is paid. I am only relating this to New South Wales. I'm not sure how the other states rego/ins still operate, I think most still pay both to their relevant road dept, Vicroads etc.

Originally Posted by Cracka

G'day fourwheeltravel,

The RMS (Roads and Maritime Services) link that ugu80 is for vehicles which are going to STAY in NSW, this link Visiting overseas vehicle < Get a new rego < Registration < www.rta.nsw.gov.au
applies to your situation if the vehicle is only here temporarily. This relates to NSW only bear in mind.

But if you didn't obtain the VIA mentioned, then yes, your vehicle will be deemed to be unregistered and uninsured (CTP).

Thanks for the responses! I am still unclear as to why I would need a VIA if I have already driven the vehicle out of the docks with a carnet de passage.