Thread: D3 - Passenger vehicle - Panel Van ?

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

<snip> "A bus is a commercial vehicle" replied I. I parked in a loading zone outside the City Council Admin Centre to do this.

So too is a panel van with or without, seats or windows, a commercial vehicle.

The County is complianced as a bus, but reading your Rule 179, we come up with a couple of anomalies.

1- It is not used for fare paying passengers.
2- It is a station wagon clearly by appearance if not registration. There is no sedan equivalent
3- It is designed so the seats may be folded or removed for carriage of goods.

This third is the case when the ticket was issued at Wooloongabba. It was in front seats only mode.

So I wonder about my position if I use a loading zone when in the cornstalk state.

Can you get your rego. changed to station wagon?

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Which one of you'se lot that advised me I can legally park is going to pay the fine!

Best of British luck in collecting. I do know some members of Motor Cycle Social Clubs that do debt collections but $141 is not sufficient to entice them to offer their services. They have charged me 25% in the past. Minimum is usually a $2000 debt.

They have been remarkably effective on the few occasions I have engaged their services.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Best of British luck in collecting. I do know some members of Motor Cycle Social Clubs that do debt collections
<snip>

Great. There's a fellow down the road.

JOQ Is a Lambretta considered a motor cycle or a motor scooter?

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Great. There's a fellow down the road.

JOQ Is a Lambretta considered a motor cycle or a motor scooter?

Well, here they can be ridden on a car licence if they are under 50cc. I had a 1955 Ariel Pixie for a while that looked like a little and slightly eccentric motor cycle (leg over, not step through), 49.8 cc. Always good for being pulled over by a half-smart copper. Passed the definition, though.

Horrible little thing really. I used it to go to the local shops. A four stroke single, no performance. I weighed 120kgs at that time and it did not like hills with me and some shopping on board.

Panel van, by the way is an abbreviation of an old coachbuilders description of their bodywork. "Panel side van" as opposed to "Window side van".

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Station wagons can park in loading zones in Sinny? Not so in Brisbane. Here loading zones are for commercial vehicles and wagons are not classed this way. I got a ticket cancelled that was issued for parking my County in a loading zone at Wooloongabba. I tried to tell the parking nark that it is complianced as a "motor omnibus" "10 seats" and offered to pop the bonnet and show him. Waste of breath. I took the ticket to City Hall with a photo of the compliance plate and copy of the rego certificate and it was reluctantly cancelled, the council officer offering the remark that I was stretching the rules. "A bus is a commercial vehicle" replied I. I parked in a loading zone outside the City Council Admin Centre to do this.

Ah yes,,,, I remember this stuff from my qld reg'd troupie..

Whilst I am in Cairns this trip I am going to check how they would class and register the D3 here.... As its a company vehicle its really no difference which state I register it in, if its classed as a wagon here in Qld... then I could get away with it in NSW (maybe)

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Best of British luck in collecting. I do know some members of Motor Cycle Social Clubs that do debt collections
<snip>

Great. There's a fellow down the road.
JOQ Is a Lambretta considered a motor cycle or a motor scooter?

Well, here they can be ridden on a car licence if they are under 50cc. I had a 1955 Ariel Pixie for a while that looked like a little and slightly eccentric motor cycle (leg over, not step through), 49.8 cc. Always good for being pulled over by a half-smart copper. <snip>

Ah Ha yes - but does the Lambretta Owner's Social Club do debt collection?