Also in the USA they do this , at any traffic stop you get asked for insurance ownership and current mechanical check . If you cannot produce them is off with the plates and tow truck come and takes it away .
apollo11,
May 16, 11:42am
The kind who don't bother warranting and regoing their dungers, and don't pay fines, will just go out and buy another dunger.
apollo11,
May 16, 11:44am
And some of them seem to get away with it for many years, although I'd have thought it really wouldn't be worth the stress- sweating blood whenever they see a cop car.
franc123,
May 16, 12:01pm
Its just a minor inconvenience even if they do get picked up. If the car gets impounded they won't bother doing anything further with it, its storage and eventual disposal is just another problem for the authorities. What money that would be paid on fines is used to buy the next car, thats why you have to be damn sure a disqualified driver is not buying the cheap car you are selling AND you ensure the rego changeover is completed before its taken away.
bumfacingdown,
May 16, 12:51pm
One more to the great car yard in the sky tho
bill-robinson,
May 16, 1:16pm
but the dungers as you put it will slowly become newer and safer which is the object.
trogedon,
May 16, 2:47pm
This all counts against their licence though and in the end they lose that which makes it harder to say get or keep a job so it has a tangible effect on their lives which anyone with half a brain (ok, I'm over rating them) would want to avoid.
apollo11,
May 16, 2:55pm
Job?
franc123,
May 16, 3:21pm
Licence? Job? Can't keep what you don't have in the first place. They're mostly bennies at home (well when theyre not out in their illegal car) breeding more of them.
tygertung,
May 16, 6:17pm
And others drive their car so rarely that they didn't notice that their WOF expired.
mrfxit,
May 16, 8:55pm
No such thing as a wof in Aussie & they seem to be ok.
mrfxit,
May 16, 9:02pm
Business carparks are a no go for police/ wardens etc as far as safety checks go. Yes they are considered a public place during that business's std work/open hours but the grief caused when an inspector snooped like that in a carpark, it resulted in an NZTA directive & agreement between business's that general police work would only be carried out in carparks when unavoidable, Eg: offender /person of interest drives in to a public carpark & stops there.
franc123,
May 16, 9:08pm
Depends entirely on where you are. Some states still have periodic safety inspections. Others don't require periodic but require inspection upon ownership transfer or if the car is being re registered in another state, or if an inspection is ordered at a roadside check. Australia is not 'WoF free' by any means.
franc123,
May 16, 9:13pm
Which is all common sense. In my view the only people that should be checking these things ANYWHERE are Police or representatives of NZTA. It should have absolutely nothing to do with council staff.
alowishes,
May 17, 9:15am
The rules and penalties for not being roadworthy in Aussie are a whole lot more severe than ol’ softy NZ.
trogedon,
May 17, 9:17am
Ok, I was being a bit over optimistic with that.
gunna-1,
May 17, 9:41am
The biggest offenders i knew worked on a farm and one at the auto wreckers, 60 grand approximate for both of them ,try again, the one at the auto wreckers never lost his job because he kept going with no licence, the "bennies" you assholes keep going on about eather play by the rules or have severely damaged lives through no fault of there own.
gunna-1,
May 17, 9:51am
Its illegal to be poor, drive a registered and warranted dunger, pass breathalyzers, and have allmost no fines because it makes the real crooks look bad, and there families for raising such shits.
franc123,
May 17, 9:56am
Thats obviously all you know from a tiny experience. Sure there are big fine defaulters who work but unless you've witnessed this stuff first hand through working for a business that did tow and salvage work as well as handled impound work for the Police I'd keep your mouth firmly shut. Now get back to work sunshine.
gazzat22,
May 17, 11:04am
How do they Police that!? Stand a staff member at the entrance?
tygertung,
May 17, 12:26pm
I used to know a guy known as "Dangerous Driver". He got up to over $180k of fines, but the courts end up writing them off, which is a bit annoying if you are someone who pays them.
gunna-1,
May 17, 12:28pm
What was the giveaway to there unemployment, a beanie, i doubt there details were any of your business.
franc123,
May 17, 12:50pm
Lets just say in a smallish place with 'repeat customers' you get to know who people are and what they do. Satisfied?
franc123,
May 17, 12:54pm
Yeah anyway, well well well this just this morning,
Widespread panic setting in about current and future shortages of inspectors. This is what happens when you chase too many people out of an industry through over zealous bureaucracy.
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