parking on the street

its amazing people "legallaly park" a skip bin on the road outside their house ..no rego ..no reflectors makes you wonder sometimes

.. i wonder what would happen if you park your truck outside your house fit a cover to it(to hide the rego) & tie the tarp good around the number plates .. you may get a doorknock ? .years ago i copped a fine for parking truck on roadway .. next day i parked it in the same spot & smeered vasoline over the steps that "helped" someone to put the fine on the windscreen . . . yeah i got fined again

With the skips kenny, you have to get a permit from council to leave them on the street. I think I will give council a call and ask if I can do the same thing with a truck if I have a job somewhere. The skip permits last 3 months I think and they are cheap. By the way bigcam, I wasn't even born in the 70s. Did you guys even have cars back then? You probably had to park your horse and carriage down at the local stable and walk home by candlelight.

Sorry Hoffy, I started school in 1969. Nothing wrong with the 70's mate. Did you ever hear of a band called the radiators? They where once the band that toured the most in Australia. One of thier songs was called Fess's song, and when I was driving buses in Cairns I had fantasy's of teaching a Bus load of Japs the chorus. The problem being, that Japs arn't particularly out going by nature, so that was the end of that. Anyway the chorus goes (if you havn't heard it)-
I like sex, sex
I take drugs, drugs
I like looking at dirty pictures,
I like lieing in bed with Fess.
Even if you grew up in the 90's, I'm sure it was a similar anthem, just done by someone else. Mind in the 70's, you may have got away with writing some wrong GVM on your truck. Now days, it isn't even a requirement in Queensland because it is all on the computer.

Bl%%

G'day Hofman,

It will cost you $84 ifn you get sprung. I spent two weeks arguing with a copper about what was a bus defined as and that my motorhome wasn't classed as a truck so it must be a bus. In fact it is a 79 Bedford bus. The rule states that the parking restrictions don't apply to buses. In the end he booked me anyway and said work it out in court. The Wyong council is hot on parking, good money spinner I think, so had to find somewhere to park it.

When i lived in Hoppers Crossing (Wyndham Council) you required a permit to park any truck over 2 tonne on your own property. And no parking in the street for any longer than 1 hour.
I had to supply photos of the truck and where the truck was to be parked its rego number weight and then had to apply for a permit, but the permit only applies to that truck if i got a new truck i had to re apply again.

Where i am now i should have applied for a permit to store to allow me to park my trucks inside my shed but hopefully no one complains.

Councils do not want any commercial vehicles parked in residential areas, they want you to park them in the industrial estates.

Trevor

The 70s, I admit, looked fun.Let me guess the stage names. For the lead singer I'm going to go with antifreeze. The drummer would have to be piston. The only one I can come up with for the guitarist is squeaky fan belt.

You say because of computers I don't have to mark the gvm which means I can print a false gvm. A copper driving past may see it and keep going, maybe not. An educated busy body may also be fooled by it. I'll never know if it works but it can't hurt. If you're truck was really obviously over, it wouldn't work of course.

imr, maybe we should bolt 12 fold down seats to the top of the trucks and call them open top buses.

Come on guys there must be a loophole here somewhere. We should consider it our duty to root it out and then flog it to death. Any truckies/lawyers on this site?

Slospeed, I have an industrial area around the corner. Do you mean on the street in an industrial area or on a block?

Councils are strange beasts

I had no problem with mine until I applied to build a 9mx3m extension to my carport to store the Inter.

At this stage I was told by the council expert on the phone that it was a big truck so I needed a permit and had to reapply every 6 months in case someone objected to a noisy diesel truck being started every morning. I pointed out it was being kept similar to a vintage car was not going to be started every day. Also it was petrol and no louder than a car. The council 'expert' informed me that there was no such thing as a petrol truck and I needed a permit for it and that was that.

I rang the person's boss who sent an council bylaws officer around to inspect the situation. They had a look, got out their tape measure and my Inter is 7.25 metres long with a gvm of 9.15 tonnes. You only need a permit for trucks over 7.5 metres long or over 10 tonnes gvm.

The irony is none of my neighbours have ever complained about the truck nor any of my other vintage machinery so I guess I must be lucky

Mr Bruceman
GuddayM8

RE: You only need a permit for trucks over 7.5 metres long or over 10 tonnes gvm.

With gr8 news like th@
U should rush round n get th@ in writing
for future reference

Coz az U kno n eye kno
this good news aint gunna last

ButEyeDoSt&2BCorrected

Cya

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