QLD Finally Catches up..No More Rego Stickers.

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THE days of scraping a registration label off the corner of the front windscreen are numbered, following a Newman Government decision to end the stickers.

Transport and Main Roads Minister Scott Emerson said Queensland motorists who owned light vehicles would start to receive their last sticker before the labels are phased out on October 1, 2014.

"This will bring Queensland into line with most other Australian states which have already gone stickerless," Mr Emerson said.

"It will mean a more efficient and effective method of registering vehicles and save up to $3.5 million a year in postage and printing costs.

"Stickerless regos will apply to all vehicles up to 4.5 tonnes which account for about 96 per cent, or 4.4 million, of vehicles registered in Queensland.

"Using a kitchen knife to pry off an old label and trying to stick on the new label without bubbles will be a thing of the past.

"Abolishing labels will also benefit delivery companies and car rental companies with large vehicle fleets."
Registration labels were first introduced in Queensland in 1932.

Mr Emerson said advances in technology meant the detection of unregistered vehicles could be done using number plate recognition, rather than citing a sticker on the front windscreen.

"The key issue in making this decision was to be satisfied that there will not be an increase in the number of unregistered vehicles in Queensland," he said.

"The experience in other states shows that if this is carefully implemented and enforced there won't be any change in vehicle registration numbers.

"Once the labels are no longer required, the public will be able to check the registration status of their vehicle online or by calling the TMR call centre."

Fines of up to $8800 apply for driving an unregistered vehicle.

The registration and traffic improvement fees for Queensland motorists range from $92.55 for a trailer to $777.10 for a car (9-12 cylinders). The Newman Government has frozen registration and traffic improvement fees for Queensland family vehicles during the current term of government.

[blackf6]

I wonder if we will have to remove the last rego sticker? Seeing as it is not being replaced. Rego stickers might be like stamps now.

[Moo Man]

Originally Posted by teak81

I wonder if we will have to remove the last rego sticker? Seeing as it is not being replaced. Rego stickers might be like stamps now.

We didn't have to down here in NSW, it is no longer an offence to display an expired label.

This also opens up the option for those with classic cars to display a period correct reproduction rego label.

[russellw]

It's been interesting watching the blitzes on unregistered vehicles in our (semi rural) area which have become a regular part of the landscape in the last 12 months or so.

Even more so when they are as successful as they claim to be - which, judging by the vehicles littering the side of the road after one, they probably are.

The last one caught 32 unregistered vehicles, a few unlicensed drivers and some outstanding warrants which is a reasonable enough haul for a couple of hours work.

I'm sure the next phase of this will be to make use of the tolling cameras that sit above all our major arterials and link them to the number recognition software as an aid to getting a few more.

Cheers
Russ

[Mr Hardware]

Whilst many of you say "Hooray" I say keep the stickers.
I like being able to see a car's year of manufacture easily. I was annoyed about 7 years ago when they took the TARE weight value off the stickers, but that was often incorrect anyway.
It's nice to be able to quickly see when your car runs out of rego.
And I pay $800+ for a standard family car and they can't even give me a $1 sticker?

[Fiesta God]

Vicroads are still stubbornly "sticking" to their policy of sending out registration labels.

Great.

Suppose we have to get something for our $700+.

[Smoke Pursuit]

I would be happy with this if the government gave us back the change.

The thing that worries me is people not paying regos and others getting in cars not knowing they are unregistered.. e.g. fleet cars and company cars. I have driven company cars before and when I would get a swap etc I would always check the rego label to make sure it was up to date.

[russellw]

Originally Posted by Fiesta God

Vicroads are still stubbornly "sticking" to their policy of sending out registration labels.

Great.

Suppose we have to get something for our $700+.

I believe Victoria has dropped them as well - or according to my latest renewal they have.

Cheers
Russ

[zilo]

Originally Posted by russellw

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I'm sure the next phase of this will be to make use of the tolling cameras that sit above all our major arterials and link them to the number recognition software as an aid to getting a few more.

Cheers
Russ

They are already doing that in Adelaide...with red light/speed cameras .
Allow about $700 for the experience....if not speeding/redlighting.

Also you automatically get billed for the corporate non nomination of the driver if using a company car there...they assume you don't want the demerit points...LOL...allow $865 for 7km/s over the limit.

[FPV8U]

Originally Posted by russellw

I believe Victoria has dropped them as well - or according to my latest renewal they have.

Cheers
Russ

January 1, 2014 is when Victoria it will no longer be required to display a registration sticker.

[YOB POM]

Will they still send out reminders that rego is due?

[Mr Hardware]

Originally Posted by YOB POM

Will they still send out reminders that rego is due?

How else are they going to fleece you?

[BENT_8]

This has been in effect in SA for a while now.
I have fallen victim to it and copped it, I was caught going under an overhead camera gantry on Port Wakefield rd Globe Derby 2 days after my vehicles rego expired.
I then went under the same gantry a week later which resulted in a fine.

The way the system works is that the first detection of an unregistered car is logged, after 7 days if you still haven't bothered to register your car and pass through another detection point you will be fined.

So you are given a 7 day period of grace.

We still receive a rego paper which clearly states the date of it expires.
I keep my renewal form on the fridge to remind me.

No problems since.

Everyone's entitled to make a mistake, intelligent people learn from them and adjust.

[a_misfit]

/tin foil hat on/
Gives them perfect jusification now to have the cameras on police cars to snap licence plates as they drive around for "checking registration" purposes.
/tin foil hat off/

The above is not really a concern to me, other than the big brother effect of knowing where you have been.

[TC200six]

Originally Posted by Moo Man

This also opens up the option for those with classic cars to display a period correct reproduction rego label.

I would definitely buy one! I hear someone is making retro labels in NSW. Once I hear about old QLD ones being made, I'll seek to get one.

[YOB POM]

Originally Posted by Mr Hardware

How else are they going to fleece you?

By fining you when you forget,as has been the case elsewhere.

[Ringo]

WA was the first do without labels something like 6 years ago.
SA followed and then NSW.
Vic and QLD are next.

The technology available to scan number plates is amazing.
I saw a segment on one of the current affairs shows last week that the NSW HWP cars are equipped with 3 cameras on the roof that scan all the number plates that come into the camera's field of vision. Any unregistered car pops up on the terminal screen with an alert sound for the driver to identify the vehicle and do the intercept. This technology will find its way around the country if it has not already done so.

[ozpacman]

Whoo hoo! Watch the bogans get their unregistered VN's out of the front yard and back on the road once they realise you don't need a sticker!

[Kayos]

Correct the new radars on the po po automobiles snatch ridiculous numbers so the stickers are useless.

Come 2014 the stickers in Vic are gone, but it all comes down to cost saving and it won't be put into our savings or roads.

Thats right the cost to your reg in Vic won't go down. I forget the figures for Vic but someone just got a promotion and thats all she wrote.

[ozpacman]

"Correct the new radars on the po po automobiles snatch ridiculous numbers so the stickers are useless."

The powers that be had better release some money for some new bits of kit pretty smartly if the police are going to combat this move. There are presently six cars in the entire state that are fitted with the automatic number plate recognition equipment so you'd have to say that on present figures, the odds of getting away with it are pretty good!

[last fairlane]

Back in the eighties here in QLD the stickers were pretty well blank anyway
from memory all they had on them was the month and year of expiry
and a serial number no make or model just the big 7 for July or what ever
thanks John

[Kayos]

Originally Posted by ozpacman

"Correct the new radars on the po po automobiles snatch ridiculous numbers so the stickers are useless."

The powers that be had better release some money for some new bits of kit pretty smartly if the police are going to combat this move. There are presently six cars in the entire state that are fitted with the automatic number plate recognition equipment so you'd have to say that on present figures, the odds of getting away with it are pretty good!

For those who try will find being done come soon enough, at the end of the day $$ count in gov.
Say the GOV
don't drive with reg pay the fines, and there's a few all up.
drive with reg pay the reg, and don't get hit by the driver without reg or you'll pay big time so pay insurance because TAC won't cover jack!
no stickers cha ching we just made a win win said the gov jockey!


so who's we the people?? we are less than a number these days

[TC200six]

Originally Posted by TC200six

I would definitely buy one! I hear someone is making retro labels in NSW. Once I hear about old QLD ones being made, I'll seek to get one.

I since found two companies that make replica labels.

Kingswood Country Spares make them, but a little pricey at $44. Grafix Unlimited make them too and are a little cheaper.

I think I'll wait until the final stickers expire first. You never know if a cheeky cop wants to book you for having an older looking label on you car, even though they look nothing like the more recent stickers.

[csv8]

can Tappatalk make them ???