7 September 2005

Licence Blitz underway?

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The AFP want us all to know that they’re conducting a blitz of drivers licences.

Should I ever see a traffic police unit i’d take it more seriously.

But as a licence check could be part of almost any other compliance activity once really does wonder what they’re on about.

I suppose a story in the paper might encourage people to carry their licences. But I know otherwise intelligent people who think it’s an option not a necessity.

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Oooh, oooh! Talk of petrol and oil prices! Where is OpenYourMind when we need him? 🙂

So why are so many people driving unregistered cars?

They probably can’t afford to pay for rego, so increasing the fines probably won’t help.

Well, some people must be certainly feeling the pinch: ACTION has been hauling more arse lately!

Growling Ferret3:23 pm 07 Sep 05

Ralph, fuel used to be the cheapest part of owning a car.

A family mortgaged to the hilt with their 4 bedroom mcmansion on lanyon valley rise (or substitute any poxy estate name), Ford Territory/Holden Adventra and 2 kiddies may feel the pinch pretty quickly when they spend an extra $50 a week on petrol…

A couple of punters in this office are already feeling the pinch due to overcommitting – did they really need the 5k spent on plasma screen tvs and the new cars when they already had 300k mortgages?

Um, petrol prices will have to rise by quite a bit before people start driving less. So its unlikely that higher fuel prices will benefit the environment in the short term. Long term is a different story.

Growling Ferret2:20 pm 07 Sep 05

The word I got was it was too successful. Victorian police recently found up to 10% of cars on the road are unregistered.
How about upping the fines for unregistered cars to, oh, double whatever the rego is.
I can see it getting a lot worse as the neverending media whinge of $1.60 a litre continues.
(ps – has anyone heard any social commentators suggest that the raised fuel prices leading to lowered private vehicle usage may be better for the environment?)

I think I actually remember this too. A string of cars parked on the side of Adelaide Avenue without number plates.

Growling Ferret9:12 am 07 Sep 05

It sounded like a tall tale, so can anyone verify this.

A copper mate of mine was telling last time the AFP did a blitz on registered cars, they were finding 100 cars a morning unregistered, and canned the program as it was too successful…

This would have been 12 months or so ago, and the coppers were set up in the back of a wagon with a camera that plugged into a laptop, which contained rego details for every vehicle in the ACT. 200m down the road were the backup of half a dozen marked cars who pulled over the cars that were recorded as unregistered, or with drivers unlicenced, or with outstanding fines.

I saw the Coppers using this setup in Gungahlin, Belco and Tuggeranong – and it was like a used car lot every time…

And if your licence conditions say “Licensee must wear corrective lenses at all times”, then it’s a good idea to be wearing ’em. They might ask you to read their numberplate at forty paces.

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