Changes to Victorian Club permit scheme.

[C.A.R.]

Here is a summery report from the AOMC seminar held 17/5/2014.

 

PLEASE NOTE: this summery is by the Club permit officer of a vintage truck club, so it is 'Heavy Vehicle' 'centric'.

 

AOMC seminar held 17/5/2014

 

Here’s our summary of the AOMC meeting regarding changes to the Club Permit Scheme. Over 300 people attended and it was conducted  by Rod Amos. The changes are scheduled to come in sometime between July and September 2014.

 

Changes

1.  Club Safety inspections will be limited to pre 1931 vehicles.  Vehicles post 1931 will require a Road Worthy Certificate.  Vic Roads will be look at how to provide adequate support to RWC testers unfamiliar with older vehicles and will produce a check list for those doing safety inspections on the pre 1931 cars.

 

2. Clubs will need to hold dated  photographs of each vehicle that applies for Club plates (i.e new applications -  not vehicles already on club plates). They will have to show various views of the car, plus the engine bay, interior etc.  These photos will have to be accessible to VicRoads upon request. These photos act as a record of what the vehicle was like when it was put on red plates.

 

3. There will be a new M plate for extensively modified vehicles – plate to be the  12345M format.  Police could demand that current vehicles on H plates that are extensively modified  be inspected and reassigned to M plates.

 

4. A new Vic Roads standard will be introduced  - VSI 33 - that specifies modifications not requiring certification for CPS vehicles. However,  VSI 33 only applies to  ‘light four wheeled vehicles’. Motor bikes and heavy vehicles will have their own Standard – which will be introduced at some unstated date in the future.  Because this standard will not apply to trucks I didn’t really take extensive notes however here is a summary -

 

VSI 33 has three age categories - vehicles manufactured before 1/1/1949; vehicles manufactured from 1/1/1949 and up to 31/12/1968 and vehicles manufactured  from 1/1/1969. VSI 33 covers

various aspects of  the vehicle such as body work, engines, brakes, fuel systems etc.  AOMC is generally happy with the flexibility of these specifications – for instance a vehicle could be fitted an unmodifed engine if it was offered as an option by a manufacturer and does not provide a significant increase in power;  Brakes  can be replaced by other brakes if they were ‘manufactured by an entity that is subject to laws governing product liabilty’ For vehicles built after  1/1/1969 VSI 33 does not apply – the current standard  VSI  8 applies.

 

However Rod Amos says that if the modifications are not permitted under the new VSI 33, then if they fit into the existing VSI 8 parameters that’s ok  and if they don’t fit into VSI 8 and they fit into the current  VSB 14 parameters that’s ok and finally if they don’t fit into VSB 14 then you will need to get a VASS Engineers inspection.

 

AOMC are also in talks with VicRoads regarding replica vehicles and ‘pop up’ clubs ie clubs whose sole purpose is to provide cheap rego via CPS.  There has been the issue as whether Vic Roads will limit the number of people in a Club who can sign CPS forms. No decision on this – it will be looked at when VicRoads look at the issue of the suitability of Clubs to issue Club Permits.

 

Heather and John

[dat2kman]

Be interesting to see the re-write and changes for regular cars.

There seems to be a number of newish "clubs" in Vic, that, if you have a 30 year old anything, in pretty crap condition, that meets the minimum rwc standard, it gets the club plates.

 

Would'nt be surprised for some of the changes to filter to other States.

[HKSZ]

Any word on if they are changing vehicle age?

Here in Vic it's currently 25 years old, my motorcycle club said they are trying to make it 30 years old

[C.A.R.]

Any word on if they are changing vehicle age?

 

Not as yet.

[Agno]

Looking at the changes they look pretty good to me, the club permit system as it currently stands is too open for abuse so any changes to increase requirements (particularly in terms of safety inspections) is welcome.

[C.A.R.]

It's happening:

 

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/registration/limited-use-permits/club-permit-scheme/proposed-changes-to-club-permits

[PB260Z]

It's happening:

 

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/registration/limited-use-permits/club-permit-scheme/proposed-changes-to-club-permits

Sounds fair enough, what we really need is a uniform standard across the country.

Aligning with the National Standard VSB14 is great idea. As far as I know NSW has very restrictive on mods 

 

Well thats my understanding, happy to be corrected by wiser people.

 

 

 

[gav240z]

Agreed we need a national road registration / governing body. It's absurd that we have different structures and rules for different states.