There is for crossing directly across a road "If you are using your vehicle on the road solely for the purpose of crossing that road you will have a defence for using an unlicensed vehicle. This means that your vehicle must be licensed if you are using it for any other purpose but you may drive it unlicensed if it is only for the purpose of crossing the road. Crossing the road does not mean you can drive down the road for any distance; you must be crossing in a direct line from one side of the road to the other. "
As far a travelling on private roads, I thought Fonterra did a GPS survey of all farm roads that their tankers use to get rebates on their RUCs.
kaspas,
Apr 27, 3:28pm
just a thought but you say he had no hubmeter/ therefore how can they caculate how many rucshe was allegedly over!
neville48,
Apr 27, 3:47pm
perhaps after picking him up on this wee violation a police check came up with all sorts of crap the guy had been fined for in the past including unpaid ruc's etc on the truck and all added up to 17k and he is working off historic fines.more believable !
aj254,
Apr 27, 3:52pm
Case like that they can back charge you to the last record.
kaymay88,
Apr 27, 3:57pm
17K of fines in a single offence! i call BS.
berg,
Apr 27, 4:30pm
It happens when playing with commercial vehicles
noswalg,
Apr 27, 4:40pm
Fonterra runs a TAM's system in their tankers which tracks every meter every tanker makes via GPS, I haven't heard about them surveying tanker tracks on farms but it wouldn't surprise me. They have a lot to gain by reducing their RUC costs.
doomy999,
Apr 27, 4:41pm
not a single offence. various offences for a single stop. As for b.s. read the rest of the thread. It does happen in the commercial world of trucks unfortunately.
greghale,
Apr 27, 4:54pm
New Zealand Police Commercial Vehicle Investigation Unit (CVIU)
thejazzpianoma,
Apr 27, 7:11pm
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this story is exactly as its been explained. I have seen some extraordinarily pedantic nonsense from our so called Police.
We are just brainwashed from all the PR nonsense that WE pay for the privilege of watching on our Television, so the public at large have no idea how ridiculous some of our Policing has become.
pollymay,
Apr 27, 7:24pm
Lol the other day I went to get a warrant. Anyway I failed on a powersteering leak (had just put a new rack in it that turned out leaked). On the way to leave to go home a cop was waiting near the WOF station. Anyway I didn't trust him at all, it was weird he appeared out of nowhere after I left the station so I quietly when I got out of eyeshot planted my foot and hung into a shop capark, jumped out and went inside.
The cop pulled in after, checked the sticker, saw it was out then came in the shop. Was there an hour while he pretended to look at lights next to the only exit. I knew the staff so made myself busy. He finally left then camped out a carpark across the road. He hadn't seen me in the seat I don't think so he didn't know for sure I owned it plus when I left the shop I went to a bakery and stuff keeping myself busy for a while. Came back he was still there but was distracted by someone else so I slipped out, he then went round and round the block when I slipped up a sideroad so I had to park it again for about an hour then I FINALLY drove it home.
Maybe he just wanted to talk but given how hard he appeared to seek me out I'm dubious. If he REALLY wanted to nail me he probably could of regardless of if I was at the car but didn't so woot.
/cool story bro
pieman33h,
Apr 27, 7:29pm
have heard of a 65k fine, tho it may be the same case as berg alluded to.
as for cviu - well they have a place, but it would be nice if there was consistency from one to the other, and im being quite polite, as my dealings with them have proven that they dont always know best
NZTools,
Apr 27, 7:48pm
I managed a 7k fine 22 years ago without tryiing too hard, so 17k is entirely believable today
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