No rego labels in NSW

[Dr Terry]

It is an offence to leave the expired label on, as we found out when pulled over at a random breath station in Louth recently we were politely told to remove the label or face a fine

This is not correct. Under the old rules it was an offense to display expired labels or more than 1 label at a time. With the cessation of stickers, this no longer applies, you can display the last 10 years' stickers & those for the next 10 years, if you so desire. The exceptions are historic & large commercial vehicles that still require stickers.

The whole thing typical public servant stupidity at it's worst. The reasoning behind the abolition of the stickers is supposedly as a cost saving measure. How much saving ? The old sticker consisted of the top section of the A4 renewal that was posted to the registered owner every year. They now post the same A4 renewal without the sticker section at the top, saving say 20-30c. OK there are millions of registered owners out there, so that's 20-30c each, so the saving could be in the millions of $$. Unfortunately no, they now send a second reminder just in case the first one when astray, that's another A4 form, plus postage !! Even if they get a postage discount, the added cost has got to be 50-60c. So they spend 60c to save 30c, several million times per year. That sounds like my tax money is being well spent. No problem just increase the fines & it'll all be fixed.

Dr Terry

[Robbo]

Still have label's in QLD, never really bothered me. I have been putting them on my vehicles for 40year's.

[playwme]

Put the reminder date in your phone calendar. I still need the label on my truck and quite often go a couple weeks over. No one checks the label every morning before they get in the car.

[wbute]

Yeah I have 8 things with rego, work full time in a mine, run my farm on my days off, my wife works full time and I have three kids to look after. Oh and I live away from home 6 days out of 12. So as far as keeping on top of it all I am afraid the rego slipped through the cracks. No label does not help. Can't see why we accept having to do the rta book work as well.

[Innuendo]

Yeah I have 8 things with rego, work full time in a mine, run my farm on my days off, my wife works full time and I have three kids to look after. Oh and I live away from home 6 days out of 12. So as far as keeping on top of it all I am afraid the rego slipped through the cracks. No label does not help. Can't see why we accept having to do the rta book work as well.

You know the month rego is due, all you have to do is pay for it. Your even allowed to pay for it 30 days early.

[wbute]

Back on topic, I received no reminder texts from the RTA unlike I have for other vehicles. So be warned, don't rely on that working.
Trucks also still use labels.
As for dirt bikes, it's a great idea. Just need them to bring in number plates that are stickers.

[Big Rob]

I hate rego labels, but I do see the point some of you make.

I liked the comment about the farmers with the plates on the front fence..... If the cops ever pull into my driveway their system will suffer overload with all the old plates I've got hanging up!

[SLR_dave]

I think its a bit silly from a law enforcement point of view. It might cut down administration and postage of stickers and motorists queing at rego, but it will encourage number plate theft. This often causes heaps of extra admin from both the public and the RTA when it goes wrong. If somebody steals a plate from a car of the same model and colour (and thats what a potential licence plate thief is looking for) a police scan from a mobile unit won't see the mismatch untill the stolen plate is reported. So, an unwitting motorist can get the bill from a licence plate thiefs actions, and an admin headache to boot.
Rego stickers are supposed to be hard to remove without tearing,... although having said that , the ACT ones fall off by themselves these days actually so what am I talking about. Maybe part of the excercise will be to cause motorists to realise they are ultimately responsible for their plates, problem is, the sticker is locked inside the car, safe from daily concern to the motorist, the plates are far easier to get to. Hmn, just bloggin atm.
How long till number plate alarms become standard I wonder, perhaps someone can come up with a number plate that will self report to the RTA/Cops if removed from the vehicle. Yes.

[wbute]

So basically it has just created another problem. Number plate theft. It saves no admin cost because they still send out rego papers. Just another way to raise revenue by giving police more power. Gee booking unregistered cars is so much more easy than tackling a real problem like drugs.

[jennie285]

So basically it has just created another problem. Number plate theft. It saves no admin cost because they still send out rego papers. Just another way to raise revenue by giving police more power. Gee booking unregistered cars is so much more easy than tackling a real problem like drugs.

Or thieves