VicA wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:10 pm
That would be right Jon ....it was at Livingstones Truck Centre in Bairnsdale for a couple of months getting roadworthy etc done.
Has been a real saga....
All I can say is the NSW inspection system is useless other than providing income for certain testers....
But thanks to Neal Livingstone who went the extra mile or two for us .....it is done .
Can not use it very much at the moment .One of the first jobs is installing a diesel heater .....we have one in the Mitsubishi canter...... marvellous device ......Canter is for sale now ....
cheers Vic
Try going from Vic to NSW, same problem, just like going from Qld to either of the other mentioned states, each have their own method of money spinning when rego is involved.
When I bought the Ford Cargo in Victoria, even though it was registered I could not get it transferred to my name or even another Victorian resident unless it had been through one of their crazy inspections that involved stripping the brakes down to inspect them as part of it, a brake test on the rollers wasn't good enough for them
So I bought a vehicle transfer certificate for 3 days and drove it back to NSW without plates. Then ran into a log jam with trying to find someone with the time to do a rego inspection in NSW, so another transfer certificate to drive it to SA, but loaded it up because it was all private personal freight so the rules did not apply
Went through the Marulan weigh bridge and they just gave up after a few secs and sent me back to the highway ... as long as neither axle was over their limits they had no other records to trace back except that I had paid for a "get out of the state" pass
Ran into the same crap over here, even though the website says they just need an identity check at the local Police station ,,,, so bought another transfer certificate from SA Service to go back to Lake Illawarra .... they are much tougher with their restrictions, need a route you will follow and times you will stop for a rest break and each location you will be stopping at ........
Back in NSW, booked it in for the rego inspection that was supposed to take a few days, 2 weeks later. still no further advanced, so bought another transfer certificate, this time for the taxi Prius, and drove that back over here via back country Vic so I could drop my daughter to a friends place on the way.
Used that vehicle transfer certificate and a SAPOL identity check for engine and chassis number check, went to a country SA Services office, give me money please and here are your plates
Finally got the Ford Cargo passed on the condition I got it out of the state within a week so the MRT (or what ever letter combination they use now) couldn't drag it in over the pit and knit pick his inspection and take his inspection certificate.
Back to SA, off to the same country SA Service office, give us money, give us the NSW plates and we organise the refunds, thankyou very much for giving $$ to the SA govt and have a nice day.
So, not all states are hard to get along with, you just need to avoid the city or close to the city rego offices, and life can become much easier when moving between states
T1 Terry
