Ferret Registration a joke in Queensland

[OZITIM]

This was the chant that we had to scream every night before we went to bed at recruit training:

 

The role of the infantry:

Is to seek out and close with the enemy

To kill or capture him

To seize and hold ground

To repel attacks by day or night

Regardless of season weather or terrain

 

That was 25 years ago. Ive never spoke those words in the past 25 years. The military ingrained this stuff into your head. Your rego number, unit history, patrol formations, signals procedures, yet, this guy cant remember how many wheels his Armoured vehicle had. Nah, I wouldnt buy that story. Im sure he will turn up the next time I take the Ferret out, so I will probe him a little further. hahah

[mammoth]

One more point.

If you register a vehicle in NSW say on historic plates and then drive it in Queensland you can be fined with a unregisted vehicle and have to leave it on the side of the road.

It is a grey area and another law, freedom of trade between states, etc comes into play.

It has been done in the past and is easier to enforce if the vehicle has special restrictions which technically apply only to another state.

We are suppose to have a National rego and road law system now, but it is still not the case.

Jeeps and Dodges travelling interstate on Historic plates the coppers and scalies don't seem to worry about at all.

Travel in something unusual or large and the story could be different and a vehicle with restrictions is easy meat.

 

No Blue plates in NSW for vehicle modifications, but in Qld blue plate is needed is a good example .

 

Not so. With the exception of Western Australia the states have a reciprocal arrangement to accept 'visitors' using historic (sometimes called club rego) conditional registration. The conditions of operation of the home state apply when in the other state. One of those conditions is to carry your certificate of operation and if you don't have it the coppers are entitled to ask difficult questions.

 

NSW is about to introduce a scheme for 'modified' historic vehicles which will catch all those anomalies mentioned in another post.

For vehicles on full rego in NSW any modifications have to be passed by a certified engineer with all the same paper work as Qld. They just don't bother with the plate bit.