Thread: Towing a trailer on "H" plates.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Oi! I was gunna ask that question!

The only good thing to ever come out of Victoria other than the Hume Highway. Sounds like a bright idea not normally associated with a hidebound moribund bureaucracy like Vicroads.

Someone probably worked out it was costing more to record and collect the miserable $58 than the Dept was collecting. I have always said this was the reason that Road Maintenance Contributions were cancelled about 1980.

Does anyone remember when South Aust. registered prime movers would tow any trailer by chalking the prime movers rego. number on the back of trailer. Caused a lot of SA truckies to be stopped and questioned by interstate coppers who were not aware of this quaint custom.

Oooh! Look!

NSW have "H" plates as well.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

The only good thing to ever come out of Victoria other than the Hume Highway. Sounds like a bright idea not normally associated with a hidebound moribund bureaucracy like Vicroads.

Someone probably worked out it was costing more to record and collect the miserable $58 than the Dept was collecting. I have always said this was the reason that Road Maintenance Contributions were cancelled about 1980.

You really seem to hate VicRoads, they must have done something to really **** you off at some point in the past.

Originally Posted by Homestar

You really seem to hate VicRoads, they must have done something to really **** you off at some point in the past.

I drove and owned line haul trucks. Not so much **** me off but ****ed me and many many others around. In my opinion Vic. was the worst state for harassment, petty enforcement of mindless useless regulation and so on. I go back to the days when you couldn't cross the border with a heavy truck on the Sabbath lest the sight of such a fearsome vehicle terrify the good Christians on their way to worship. Country Roads Board officers should have been declared outside the protection of law to be shot on sight.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

I drove and owned line haul trucks. Not so much **** me off but ****ed me and many many others around. In my opinion Vic. was the worst state for harassment, petty enforcement of mindless useless regulation and so on. I go back to the days when you couldn't cross the border with a heavy truck on the Sabbath lest the sight of such a fearsome vehicle terrify the good Christians on their way to worship. Country Roads Board officers should have been declared outside the protection of law to be shot on sight.

40mph speed limits for trucks, the lines marked across the highways so they could time you from an aeroplane - aaah the good old days. .. Not!

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

I drove and owned line haul trucks. Not so much **** me off but ****ed me and many many others around. In my opinion Vic. was the worst state for harassment, petty enforcement of mindless useless regulation and so on. I go back to the days when you couldn't cross the border with a heavy truck on the Sabbath lest the sight of such a fearsome vehicle terrify the good Christians on their way to worship. Country Roads Board officers should have been declared outside the protection of law to be shot on sight.

There was a way round that, tie a crate of chooks on top of the load.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

There was a way round that, tie a crate of chooks on top of the load.

Or have "Royal Mail" decals on the doors. Go straight through weighing stations. Betty's mail had to go through. You only had to be carrying one letter.