Queensland Traffic Act - Inspecting cars on trailers and other things

[Billzilla]

Legal doesn't have a lot of far or near to it. Unfortunately, it's pretty black and white. You either comply with the act/regulations or you don't.

The problem is that there's still a lot of grey areas (you need to be a racer to get experience with that) and unfortunately Mr Plod will often not see it your way.

[myliberty]

Mr Plod has no idea what he's looking at on most occasions.

I am not a racer so don't understand why you want to drive an illegally modified car on the street and then complain about getting busted for illegal mods.

[Billzilla]

Mr Plod has no idea what he's looking at on most occasions.

I am not a racer so don't understand why you want to drive an illegally modified car on the street and then complain about getting busted for illegal mods.

Thanks for reinforcing my point.

[Wes Mantooth]

They can't make you lift the bonnet to get a VIN on a trailered unregistered car anyway.

They can actually. "I suspect this vehicle may be stolen. Lift the bonnet so I can check the VIN, or it will be seized until its identity can be confirmed."

[0x2DLVR]

They can actually. "I suspect this vehicle may be stolen. Lift the bonnet so I can check the VIN, or it will be seized until its identity can be confirmed."

They don't use that law for all races lol

[Valkyrie]

Special Interest plates in Tassie are a very interesting case. Most cars on these plates are either 100% original (classic cars) or VERY modified and run in Targa, hill climbs and sprint days. I was going to go the SI route with my Celica, but ended up going down the Engineering route. It took ~9 months from when I first submitted the paperwork to the car being on the road. You also need to have another vehicle with full registration to be able to register a car with SI plates.

I have never been pulled over in my Celica so cannot say how bad the police are. Interestingly enough I had it on a trailer before the Engineering had gone through and had "fun" with an early 20's cunstable who insisted that I had been doing burnouts in the car earlier that morning. After I explained how long it was to drive from the "alledged location", time to swap the rear tyres to brand new ones (still had the beads), put the car on the trailer and then somehow cover all of the windows in frost he finally backed off... He wanted to know what I was doing and I told him we were off to Symmons Plains for a drift day.

I think ultimately if the fuzz are in cunt mode, you are gone whether you are doing the right thing or not.

[Dark Orange]

Mr Plod has no idea what he's looking at on most occasions.

I am not a racer so don't understand why you want to drive an illegally modified car on the street and then complain about getting busted for illegal mods.

So, you're saying you should do the right thing and put the car on a trailer instead?

[Falc&Send]

Who's got the time or money to fight the rights or wrongs of an over zealous cop defecting your car on the trailer? Cheaper, quicker and easier to most times just to fix your car up to legal standard again and present it to rego and get defect cleared. Otherwise you have to take a day off work to go to court, can't drive your car in the meantime, court date might be months after you get your defect notice and then even if you "win" what do you get? Just the defect notice taken off and a bad name with the cops so from that time on you will be puilled over every time a cop sees you and hassled (and possibly defected). The cop won't get sacked or probably even reprimanded for making an "error".

[myliberty]

So, you're saying you should do the right thing and put the car on a trailer instead?

I'm saying keep it legal or remove rego.

or, up to you: remove plates and sticker.

[Marlin]

I'm saying keep it legal or remove rego.

or, up to you: remove plates and sticker.

I'm someone who has a road registered and legal car that I also bolts slicks onto and modify the exhaust to attend some tracks days. As I own a car trailer I choose to trailer it there as well.

Therefore, I find your suggestion ridiculous. :knock:

[hrd]

So, you're saying you should do the right thing and put the car on a trailer instead?

That's not the right thing. The right thing is to keep a registered car complying with the law. If it doesn't comply, they defect it to make sure it does comply before it is used on the road again. What's the problem?

Arguing grey areas in vehicle legality with cops won't get you far. Arguing they don't have the right to even look at the vehicle on the trailer will get you on the wrong side of their 'attitude test', and almost certainly make your day worse.

If they want to defect it they can. If it is being trailered on the road, it's on the road. It doesn't have to be in direct contact with the road surface. But I'd suggest they'd only do that if you piss them off by quoting mis-interpreted legislation at them, for example...

[chartreusehj]

i was told that if there was a reasonable expectation that the registered vehicle is or capable of being used on public road it can be subject to the laws applying to them.

A smashed up (undrivable) registered car on a trailer is a load, a registered (and capable of being driven) vehicle on a trailer is not.

PS: Every cop ive ever met really enjoys their interactions with roadside lawyers.

[BigJonWB]

If it is being trailered on the road, it's on the road. It doesn't have to be in direct contact with the road surface.

With that sort of logic they could defect a boat on the way to the boat ramp...

[hrd]

boat is not a vehicle. check the legislation.
nor is it registered for road use.

[ALLMTR]

That's the point, you are trailering it because it is temporarily not legal. The same as trailering a car that has broken something which makes it temporarily not legal to drive on the road. If I get done in either of those situations I will contest it.

You're going to contest a defect notice?