QLD GPS owners beware

**Chucaro** · 23rd January 2009, 07:24 PM

A GPS holding bracket in the windscreen in Qld will cost you $ 170.00 fine.
Yes you are reading correct, the pen pushers allow bringing to the country the GPS units with suction cups to hold the GPS mounting brackets on the windscreen but the holding system is illegal.
I was today at the Police station to confirm this rule and they say that any object above the dash which interfere with the windscreen or view is illegal.
The only solution is mounting the GPS on the dash and hope that the inbuilt antenna will have reception or purchasing a separated antenna if your unit have the option.

**Bushie** · 23rd January 2009, 07:41 PM

So how does that sit with this section of the Aust Road regs

299 Television receivers and visual display units in motor vehicles
(1) A driver must not drive a motor vehicle that has a television receiver or visual display unit in or on the vehicle operating while the vehicle is moving, or is stationary but not parked, if any part of the image on the screen:
(a) is visible to the driver from the normal driving position; or
(b) is likely to distract another driver.

Offence provision.
Note Motor vehicle and park are defined in the dictionary, and vehicle is
defined in rule 15.
(2) This rule does not apply to the driver if:
(a) the driver is driving a bus and the visual display unit is, or displays, a destination sign or other bus sign; or
(b) the visual display unit is, or is part of, a driver’s aid; or
(c) the driver or vehicle is exempt from this rule under another law of this jurisdiction.

Examples of driver’s aids
1 Closed-circuit television security cameras.
2 Dispatch systems.
3 Navigational or intelligent highway and vehicle system equipment.
4 Rearview screens.
5 Ticket-issuing machines.
6 Vehicle monitoring devices.

Or has Qld gone off on a tangent.

Martyn

**V8Ian** · 23rd January 2009, 07:48 PM

I'll bet the E-tag is exempt

**Armadillo** · 23rd January 2009, 07:50 PM

Not like Queensland to go off on a Tangent is it????.......mmmmmm

**Bigbjorn** · 23rd January 2009, 08:04 PM

It would only be illegal if it obscures the drivers vision of the road. If it inside the profile of the bonnet it is OK. There is a legal definition of the position of the driver's eyes. XX mm from, and xx mm from there, and xx mm above this etc. You would win this one before a magistrate.

**pop058** · 23rd January 2009, 08:13 PM

Once again from Qld Transport booklet. It is taken from the paragraph pertaining to W@#ker bonnet scoops, but I believe it is the standard used for all drivers field of view issues.

For the purposes of this
requirement, the driver’s ‘eye’ position can be taken
as being a point 730mm above and 270mm forward
of the junction of the seat cushion and seat back with
the seat in its lowest and rearmost position.

paul

**V8Ian** · 23rd January 2009, 08:28 PM

I saw a Police car with a GPS on the windscreen in Ipswich the other day. Wonder if it was owned by the company or privately.

**Reads90** · 23rd January 2009, 08:28 PM

I have mine on the dash of the falcon at the bottom in the middle out of the way . But i can understand why the police may get the hump as i see people with them almost right infront of them in the middle of the windscreen and i have thought how the hell do you see around that . And i think they are dangerous when they are like that

**Chucaro** · 23rd January 2009, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

It would only be illegal if it obscures the drivers vision of the road. If it inside the profile of the bonnet it is OK. There is a legal definition of the position of the driver's eyes. XX mm from, and xx mm from there, and xx mm above this etc. You would win this one before a magistrate.

This is not what the police said. If it is attached to the windscreen and above the dash.......Bingo $ 170.00

Go to see the magistrate if you like, but will be time lost plus cost

**Graeme** · 23rd January 2009, 08:45 PM

I was a front passenger in an NRMA accident investigator's company vehicle and the view directly in front of me was obscured by a suction-capped navigaton unit attached to the windscreen. It certainly obscured the driver's view to the left of centre. The driver was also using the keypad whilst driving, as traffic lights went green before he completed his entry. The driver subsequently failed to slow down from 70kph for a 40kph school zone until almost at the end of the zone (slammed on the brakes) because he didn't see the sign at the start, only the end.

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