Scruby's at it again...

[cya18r]

Secoh

If he gets a government grant he will have to submit audited fiinancial statements to the department of fair trading, as well as the govt. dept. that gives him coin.

You can either ask Scruby direct, but he will probably be a smart arse, or I guess the dept. of fair trading will be able to give you info.

edit: http://www.search.asic.gov.au/cgi-bi...=ACN&srchsrc=1

PCA is a company so ASIC is the place you want to pester. You want the first item, the financial report. They have information brokers at the bottom of the page linked above, that you have to pay to get info. from. I dont know how much, probably $50 or so. But thats a guess.

Ask screwball first you may get them for free off him... but I doubt it :D

[Camma]

BATCHELOR'S SPEEDOMETER-LIMITING PROPOSAL SLAMMED
Ford Australia president Tom Gorman has slammed the Victorian minister for transport, Peter Batchelor, over a press release pushing for vehicle speedometer displays to be limited to 130km/h.

"Why would Australia want to do something that no-one else in the world does? We make global products for export around the world. [Does this mean] that only Australians are not capable of handling this piece of equipment and every other citizen in the world is? [Does this mean] we can't behave responsibly?

Mr Gorman, who is also the president of the Federal Chamber of Automotive industries (FCAI), says the fact that Mr Batchelor chose not to discuss the proposal with the Australian automotive industry beforehand is as much a problem as the topic of the proposal itself.

"[Mr Batchelor] ought to give me a call if he's got a problem with [the cars we're building] and I didn't even get a call. Instead I got this press release that says he wants to limit the speedometer; I don't even know what that means. Does he want to have inaccurate speedometers?

"This is a big issue for [Australia's car industry], and we accept that we have to be a responsible participant. We've all signed up to a voluntary code of behaviour. So tell me what we're not doing in that picture. Tell me what you want me to do, and give us at least the courtesy of a sit down. We didn't get that. More than anything we deserve that."

The proposal was released by Mr Batchelor's department on Tuesday November 9 and will be submitted at the Australian Transport Council meeting this week. It calls for all new vehicle speedometers to not display speeds excessively above the legal maximum.

Mr Batchelor said "limiting the speedometer to 130km/h will remove the incentive for motorists to drive at excessive and dangerous speeds in order to test the limits of their vehicle.

"States and Territories are part of the consultative process for development and review of Australia Design Rules - however the proposal would need to be supported nationally before it could be implemented," he said.

That national support hit a major stumbling block when a spokesman for the Federal Minister for Transport, Mr John Anderson, said the Howard government was opposed to the proposal.

"The Minister strongly believes better driver education and training would be more effective," he said.

Holden's response to Mr Batchelor's proposal is more restrained, yet the message is equally clear.

"Holden would be happy to implement any strategies that will improve road safety," it said in a statement. "However, these strategies would obviously need to based on scientific merit. Holden is not aware of any research that indicates maximum speed marking on the speedometer influences driving behaviour."

Implementing Batchelor's speedometer restriction policy would require the Northern Territory to speed-restrict its major highways; a move it has staunchly resisted in the past. It would also require modifications to the 650,000 new vehicles imported every year, at a cost that would most likely be passed on to the consumer. It would also have financial ramifications for the 80,000 new cars Australia exports every year.

Mr Gorman did not label the initiative a waste of time. He did, however, outline areas the government should be focusing its energies.

"As the president of Ford and of the FCAI, we take the issue of road safety very seriously, and we take the issue of driving fatalities down and making roads safer, and the way you do that is by better road design, safer vehicles - both active and passive, and the cars on the road are safer than they've ever been - and behaviour modification.

"The question is: what is the best way to encourage safe driving? Look at the amount of effort that goes into motorcycle training for example, and balance that against the effort that goes into car training. I don't know that that's necessarily the right idea, but it should at least be looked at. Driver training is a big part of this equation."

[TonyJZX]

A more recent article (Nov 04) puts Scruby behind the wheel of a Subaru Outback

This was in the SMH "Good Weekend" magazine as well. Liberties are fine.

When these ministers press release their fanciful ideas without any public consultation, it's merely a publicity grab to show their 'concern' rather than anything substantial.

I am sickened by the frequency at which that Prof. Johnston from Monash and Carl Scully and all these related tools get their faces on TV without much of an end result.

T.

[Jim]

Secoh

If he gets a government grant he will have to submit audited fiinancial statements to the department of fair trading, as well as the govt. dept. that gives him coin.

You can either ask Scruby direct, but he will probably be a smart arse, or I guess the dept. of fair trading will be able to give you info.

edit: http://www.search.asic.gov.au/cgi-bi...=ACN&srchsrc=1

PCA is a company so ASIC is the place you want to pester. You want the first item, the financial report. They have information brokers at the bottom of the page linked above, that you have to pay to get info. from. I dont know how much, probably $50 or so. But thats a guess.

Ask screwball first you may get them for free off him... but I doubt it :D

to be honest I'm not that interested in him as much as he shits me off. I'd prefer to get some attention on some real safety issues, who knows, maybe he'll actually use his Powers for Good, and we can turn him from the Dark Side.

[Tommy Boi]

Courtesy of www.drive.com.au

Feds put brakes on speedo plan

By Andrew Heasley
The Age
Wednesday November 17 2004


A FAILED 20-year-old US safety strategy to limit speedo readouts to curb speeding, resurrected by the Victorian Government, looks doomed after Federal Government rejection.

The State Government's desire to limit speedo readouts to 130 km/h was tried in the US in the 1980s, when speedos were limited to 85 mph (137 km/h), but was dumped mid-decade for failing to reduce the road toll.

Victorian Transport Minister Peter Batchelor argues high speedo numbers lure some into speeding, upping the crash risk.

"Limiting the speedometer display to about 130 km/h will remove the incentive for motorists to drive at excessive and dangerous speeds," he said.

Victoria Police supports the initiative but declined to explain to Drive how it would be enforced and whether aftermarket fitting of fully calibrated speedometers would be allowed.

Mr Batchelor was to submit the proposal to the nation's transport ministers last Friday but a chorus of voices headed by the Federal Government slammed the idea.

"The Australian Government does not support the Victorian proposal," a spokesman for the Deputy Prime Minister (and Federal Transport Minister) John Anderson said.

Your Say: Would limiting speedo readings to 130 km/h improve road safety? Email your opinion to drive@theage.com.au or write to the Editor, Drive, PO Box 257C, City Mail Processing Centre, Vic, 8001.

[Ustasa]

Looks like the Ford/Holden boys have put the squeeze on the Fed’s and told them to tell Bracks to shove it where the sun don’t shine lol

[Jim]

someone should suggest to scruby that trains need speed cameras. You know, a speed camera would have saved that QLD derailment by photographing the driver! Oh, and think of all those passengers that must've been encouraging the driver to speed. They should all get fines too.