Confusion over rego renewal could set in
The Manager of a business started in WA to help people overcome growing problems associated with vehicle licensing compliance believes it is only a matter of time before motorists nationwide will face registration confusion. Kevin Stevens joined Rego Reminder in June last year after the company’s Perth-based founder, John Nelli, designed and developed an alternative sticker to help remind motorists to pay their vehicle registration. Changes to WA registration requirements in January 2010 mean vehicle owners are no longer required to display rego stickers.
The Great Southern has experienced a considerable increase in vehicle licensing offenses since the changes, a trend Mr Stevens believes will occur all over Australia if the same changes are adopted. “You are supposed to get your renewal papers from the government six weeks before your registration expires,” he said. “But enough people to make it an issue are not getting them for varying reasons. I’ve not seen anything to the contrary from the government to explain why there are more cars unregistered on the road than before they took the stickers away. We’re trying to avoid swelling the government coffers, but personally you don’t want to see it financially ruin someone who is unlucky enough to be out of third party insurance.”
The stickers cost $2.75, a price Mr Stevens said was small compared to the cost of facing court if charged with driving an unlicensed vehicle like almost 300 people in Albany this year. “This way you can look at your window and realise your rego is due, and if you haven’t received your renewal papers you can ring up the Department of Transport and ask them what’s going on,” he said.
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Reader Comments (2)
This is all crap. People get a licence renewal posted to them. If they have shifted and not put in a change of address and they don't get the renewal, who is to blame. Most people know when their rego is due. If they choose to ignore it and then wimp around saying "I didn't have a sticker to remind me" is just a cop out. How many of these same people got pulled up when there were stickers but they had them in the glove box or at home on the bench top but hadn't bothered to put them on. Drongos deserve no apologies. Fine them and hit them hard, if they run into you in an unlicensed vehicle, it can ruin your life. Do they care? Yea, like hell do they.
When you get a renewal PAY IT.
To Tommy G.
I changed my address 4 times with the Department of Transport and they still got it wrong. It was just lucky the lady in the Country Post Office new me and forwarded it on. BRING BACK THE STICKERS.
Country Girl in the City