I remember quite a few years ago i had a p cab 112 tag axle on Norfolk Line .I got stopped late afternoon going down the A1 by the ministry for a check.The motor had an engine stop that didnt work so i had to stop it in gear.I pulled up and stopped the engine .The ministry man had a good look round tjen got undetneath.Start it up driver (
) so i did with a little blip of the accelerator with a puff of black smoke to follow.He wasnât impressed but found nothing.
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By coincidence, the NHVR (sort of like VOSA) inspectors are crawling all over the place where I live and work. Iâve not been stopped (yet) but the word around town is that theyâve been very busy. TBH I donât mind them nicking overloaded/ dodgy operators, but having a go at someone for a minor error in their logbook (as happened to one of our regular linehaul blokes recently) does wind me up a bit.
edit: NHVR - National Heavy Vehicle Regulator
That bay has been expanded, both sides of the road. I donât like to be pedantic, but Iâm going to be. 
Its an XE and as Queenslanders, theyâre mermaids.
We always refered to them as Snoopys. There actually were multiple models, all looking similar. Some had RoadRangers, 15 and 13 on the tree.
Thatâd stuff Carryfast up.
The MAN if over here would be broken down waiting for parts.We moved from MAN to Merc talk about out of the frying pan into the fire ffs
Over a thousand bucks for a spelling error, such as an O short or extra in Wooloomooloo, or Six Mile Ck, instead of Six Mile Creek.
As a matter of course, I have always made extreme efforts to avoid them and their revenue raising antics.
If you say so 
then it is. I can barely tell the difference myself but I do know an XF when I see one. I trust this is enough to prevent my passport being revoked (the QLD one I mean).
In this case, one night he forgot to check the box indicating which state he was operating in. He didnât get slapped with a fine, thankfully, but still an honest mistake is an honest mistake.
Are they self governing and self funding?If so itâs open to abuse and shouldnât be allowed to happen. They can use hauliers to fund their own mistakes
A few seasons ago the Premier League fined Leeds United ÂŁ100000 because their fans were singing a homophobic song to Brighton fans ("We can see you holding hands ") in response to Brighton singing a Jimmy Saville song to Leeds fans. No action taken against Brighton.My question is where does this money go to and how can it be justified.The story is totally irrelevant to the wheel tappers of Australia but in a way is the same as they can just pluck a figure out of thin air and fine someone with it. I can imagine Monday morning in the office we didnât make much last week lets make up for it this week fine everyone
My neck of the woods, the bus mob is Minden Bus Service, mostly school runs.
I donât want to step on SDUâs toes, but if youâre referring to what is these days the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR), itâs remit is described here: About the NHVR | NHVR
Itâs funded by the federal guvmint as far is I know.
Donât mind my toes mate, Iâm not the font of all knowledge. As far as I know itâs a federal funded initiative, operated by each state government. When it all kicked off it was supposed to be standrdising everything so legal in one state, legal in all. The first thing to be standardised was penalties. Every fine increased to the level of the highest prevailing state penalty. As for the rules, there are now national rules, with seven diferent interpretations.
Iâve had no direct inter course with the National crew, but I did get a letter asking how I avoided three cameras. I of course ignored it.
Brilliant that SDU .Last weekend i was talking to some friends and theyâd been to Beverley Races.On the way back thereâs a few villages they went through and one of their sons said is this what old england was like âŚ
There was a firm in NT when I was there who majored on Hippos and presumably other Leylands but canât remember the name now*. Iâll have a look in my book later. Likewise Fred Stiles at Outback Transport who was a Foden fanatic.
Buntine started with one Commer and then someothers before discovering the mighty Mack. No sleepers though and I remember a former driver of his pulling up in his new cabover Mack sleeper to show it off. We were all gathered around mouths agog at the luxury of sleeping without worrying about snakes and scorpions in the bulldust. 
Not that we would have had much time for a sleeper though. 
*Edit, Baldocks, I think.
2nd Edit, the one and only AEC Mustang I saw was one of theirs I think too. Something we didnât see in Britain, an LAD cabbed AEC. 
Nor me neither. Some howeverâŚ
Curiously (and as you allude), the ânationalâ bit doesnât apply as strictly (or at all) in WA and NT. Funny, that.
I think Iâm right in saying that was a services on the A1(M). If it wasnât, it shouldâve been.
Both lack any major rail network and have the most workable (truckie) system with an empathatic attitude to truck drivers.
