Quote Originally Posted by wbute View Post
No it's not the same as concessional machinery rego. They don't have compliance plates. Hence they can't have full road rego. You can't get concessional rego for a farm ute for example that has a compliance plate. Only full rego. Which is a pain if you have two properties a few km apart and an old farm ute.
Headers had all sorts of issues because the RTA declared they had to have working brake lights. Not possible as they are hydrostatic drive. No brake pedal. They eventually came to their senses on that.
I still think it should be eased up. No club affiliation and cheaper rego for cars over 30 years old. No one is going to go back to a 30 year old car for a daily driver.
As I said, similar in the way that it is not proper rego, just a permit to go from a to b.
You're taking my words too literally. It's the concessional part that is the same, in that it is restricted use, concessional in cost, but legal rego. Same application form, same sequential plate numbering system, just different in the way that use is allowed. In a legal & insurance sense it has the same standing as full rego, as long as you're driving within the rules. The old 'permit to move' scheme however, was a legal minefield.

All cars pre-1970 have no compliance plates either, & the vast majority of H-plated cars would be pre-1970.

You say that no one is going to use a 30 year old car as a daily driver. Sadly that's the biggest form of system abuse. There have been many instances of people driving things like EHs & old Valiants etc. to work every day on H-plates. There was one instance where a guy on the Central Coast drove a H-plated Morris Minor to school every day on P-plates!! He was even parking it out the front of the school grounds, in plain sight, all day, in 'No parking' zones & getting several parking tickets before it was picked up.

Dr Terry