Concession Permit Scheme

Why is it so difficult, is no one pushing for it?
A cheaper form of licencing for motor vehicles that are older and driven less. In South Australia they have a scheme where you have 90 days in which to drive your nominated vehicle, but you have to keep a log book.

In short, the car is licenced for 90 days of the year. If you get pulled over, you pull out your log book for the police to inspect and you're fine to go. Simple.

In Victoria you'll sometimes see number plates with red background and white lettering that usually have SR and numbers or H and numbers. Its their limited use permit scheme. The VicRoads website has a good deal of detail on it including the odd part about crossing state borders. I was told it has changed but at as I type (Jan 17th 2016)the website states that the plates are recognised in every state of Australia, except W.A.

To drive to WA the owner will have to contact the Licencing Department and arrange a club permit and that a fee may apply.

In an age of interstate harmonisation of legislation, this one's a no go. With the ASRF Nationals approaching fast entrants need to be aware of the limitations of SR & H plates out of Victoria. If they don't get the permit they will be deemed to be driving an unregistered/unlicensed motor vehicle. I'm thinking all your 3rd party gone and very possibly all insurance gone for not having complied with the law. If you're heading to WA, check with the ASRF and don't be relaxed check with the WA Dept of Transport.

And now... New South Wales is having a go at it.
Now one of the barriers to gathering support for such a scheme here has been from some rodders. Some who said look if you push for that we'll lose all rego for hot rods.

I get what they're saying, I just have no idea what that's based upon and how likely that is. Their contention is vehicles under the National Street Rod Guidelines would be deregistered if we pushed for a limited use log book scheme.

Now if you look up the Guidelines, go to the index and you'll find a section listed as the scope and introduction. You'll soon see that passing the guidelines is not guarantee of getting rego. You'll find that the guidelines are actually a guidelines of achieved roadworthiness. In that regard the system is working well and I wouldn't want to see it abolished.

Thing is NSW is introducing a 2 year trial for cars 30 years and older. First stage is historic cars in standard form. Second stage is modified cars. Modified cars will include any vehicle that passes NSRG. So any registered hot rod can jump over to the club system.

It hasn't been determined if this means and end to yearly inspections for hot rods. That may continue.
It does put a lot more responsibility upon clubs to administer their members vehicles to ensure they're all complying with the rules...which is very fair enough.

Could it mean the TAC in WA might lose the ability to gain constant stream of inspections each month? Not sure. In this case the fiduciary duty the ASRF has is to the members and if there's more benefit to the member by keeping the inspections, so be it. If there's more benefit for their members to push for a dropping of inspections so be it. They cannot decide that they need to protect an income stream and therefore keep inspections. Early days of an option not even on the table here. The department may require inspections. We'll just have to see what NSW does.

In any case, the only barrier to WA taking up such a scheme is lack of push and old guard with anti change syndrome. That and bureaucrats because its quite obvious no such barriers exist in NSW.

Benefits? Well you insurance and costs are for days you actually drive it, not whilst its parked. You might be able to negotiate a lower premium because more of the year is same as laid up insurance.

Now if you own 3 eligible cars things just got even better. For the price of one normal rego fee you could have 4 or more cars on the permit scheme and realistically, if you have that many cars you can't use up all your combined days anyway. You'd be mad if you didn't take the option...of you're just inclined to give the government more money than its entitled to.

And that's the other thing...its optional. If your hot rod is your every day commute to work, stay with 365 day rego. Nothing gained, nothing lost.

Here, check this video and hopefully ASRF reps will start pushing for this in the states with no scheme like (we think) Tasmania, WA, Queensland, ACT & the NT.

That'd be nice. Here's the video of the NSW Transport minister explaining the trial in Parliament.
http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/roads/registr ... video.html