Please help me challenge this unjustified charge from VicRoads.
If you don't want to sign, it's ok but don't put your unwanted comments. I think the VICRoads charges are not right, if you don't that doesn't mean you get right to comment on me.
Be nice to other is one thing missing here.
Also, most people saying don't use it if you can't afford. What about when someone has gifted you. And I am not comparing with other states, so stop those comments
I think if you are struggling with the cost of living then maybe transferring custom plates to a new vehicle is a discretionary expense that can be avoided.
People are forced to it under different circumstances..may be downgrading.
Witro off, scrapping old car etc. Not ervy one moving it to an expensive car.
you don't need custom plates. they are a luxury.
Please share exactly how people are "forced to it"?
May be inherited. May be keeping for sentimental reasons.
I am not forgetting the fact that majority are for personal choice.
Irrespective ,any setvice charge should be reasonable.
May be keeping for sentimental reasons
Not "forced" but keeping it by choice
May be inherited
Again, by choice. Are you sentimentally attached the to vehicle or the number plate?
new plates are $50. Paying the difference to have custom plates to your car seems like an insignificant value considering the duty fees are massive (if its a new car).
"Vanity" plate tax/fees is something I'm not opposed to.
You're welcome to just have "regular" plates and avoid such costs, so youre actively opting in to pay $ for your numberplate
Shed a tear for NSW roadsters who have to pay custom plate fees yearly.
isn't it same for QLD?
No QLD is a one off
This is how it MUST be… vanity plates should be a privilege you pay for similar to an internet domain name. If you can't afford, pass it on or keep paying, simple as that.
Is it gouging? yes
Cost of living blah blah blah, if you can afford custom plates you are doing ok, so pay up. Or simply use regular plates like the rest of us.
We're a state heavily in debt, we need to gouge all we can get from whomever we can to pay our interest bill.
Where do I sign to increase it even more?
financial burden on responsible vehicle owners
"responsible" my ass, people with custom lisence plates are always the most overconfident and aggressive drivers on the road.
Is there a petition to charge yearly fees for them?
already struggling with the rising cost of living.
Who gets a customs plate when struggling? just get a normal plate like me
A GPT generated change.org petition for an admin fee for a vanity item? And your arguement is cost of living? Am I getting this right?
lol at the comments:
Number plates have a special plate in hearts like mine, this would be a kind gesture to many kind people.
I'm still trying to figure out what that means.
AI slop
The orthopaedic surgeon stood in when the cardiac surgeon was sick and OP had their surgery. OP now has a bullet proof heart.
I'm starting a petition to ban private plates. Click here for more details.
Vicroads was privatised and this is a result
And managed by Macquarie no less. Ethics is not compatible with their business.
Just wait and see what Australia will look like in 20years time with all those cheap assets bought during Covid.
Typical of ALP to privatise more stuff owned by the public. And of course giving the deal to their mates over at Macquarie. Classic.
Must be a different ALP to the WA one, ours is buying back stuff sold off to mates of the Libs and then run into the ground.
Yeah they both (ALP and LNP) had fun over the last 4 decades selling off as many public assets as they could to mates.
What are they buying back in WA? Are they paying a fair value or is it just a second gift to the mates who bought it for a song in the first place?
@tenpercent: Water pipes are popping like it's a party after the company that was supposed to look after them did (profanity) all except pocket the money, same with the rail lines sold to transport companies. Can't even drive a train on some of them now. Again, no maintenance. Just pocket the profits.
fee has been around for ever… Long before a PART of vic roads was privatised
lol
Victoria: always following in NSW’s footsteps
I do like how you’ve tried to use the cost of living argument for this one
How often does she change cars?
Clearly, not that special.
we are aged pensioners being hit with 'little fees' left, right and centre They **cking add up
aged pensioners changing cars regularly enough that a $150 fee would kill your joy?
While you are counting up the number of cars she has had, also calculate how much was saved on the 50% reduction on registration fees for aged pensioners.
Sorry, no sympathy here either.
You started to lose me with the vague, emotionally driven, subjective arguments but when you dropped "the cost of living bomb",dude, you damned well cracked me up.
You've provided hardly any proof for almost all of your arguments, just a whole heap of imaginary unsupported assumptions.
If something like that is ever going to fly, you need to use a bunch of well established facts.
The "poor me" emotional pleas and sob stories are best suited to Go Fund Me requests.
You haven't even specified what happens when assigning plates to a different car, far less attributing the cost you believe should apply.
And seriously? This only happens when you assign the plates to a different car, doesn't it? Just how often does a regular person do this attracting this fee?
Simply owning vanity plates is synonymous with a stupid tax. Excellent way to draw unwanted attention to you and/your car and makes remembering, tracking and monitoring your car so much easier for police, bad guys and bikies with baseball bats.
In saying that, I've seen some absolute corkers around, but why pay a fee to draw extra attention and scrutiny to yourself or your car?
Might as well just tattoo "vain sucker" on your forehead.
Imagine a vanity plate with a picture of a little penis in the centre with the words ALL 🥕 RISE.
Good for a judge too, I suspect.
Using a picture of a middle finger could also work.
Or for those inclined to appreciate a bit of dark humour…
Use a caricature of a dude, either in a wheelchair or a coffin.
If you can't afford the running costs of registration , and personalized plates , don't drive ⁉️
You should know that when you post here, people are going to check your old posts. Rolling out the cost of living rubbish on the transfer of your personalized plates when only late last year you had booked a surprise trip to Hawaii for the other half is certainly contradictory. Dare say between overseas holidays and buying a new car you are going alright so no sympathy here.
Damn, maybe that trip to Honolulu broke OP's bank…
Didn't Dan Andrews privatise them?
The $145.70 fee is labeled an "assignment fee", but VicRoads has not provided a breakdown or justification of what this cost covers.
Breakdown:
Guy in Mumbai needs to log into your account and change the car registration details…
He's not cheap…
Breakdown:
Person in Victoria needs to log into your account and change the car registration details…
They're not cheap…
Fixed it for you… I used to work for VicRoads… Call centres are in Ballarat and Melbourne CBD
I would have thought of all the political parties who want foreign call centres, the ALP are not the main player.
the ALP are not the main player.
Most of the backend operations within the Vic government are outsourced to India even though the call centre is in Ballarat, and of those in Ballarat, many are employed by Indian companies and are here on a work visa.
That's not outsourced to India if they're in Australia.
Call centre in Australia (mainly foreigners/non residents on work visa), back end support outsourced in India.
@jv: Would love to see all the documentation you have justifying this comment. Surely you wouldn’t just make unsubstantiated accusations?
Would love to see all the documentation you have justifying this comment.
I know some of them…
@try2bhelpful: I don't need to justify…
Do some research and find out which IT company has the contract. Then find out where they do they operations from… Only the call centre is in Ballarat.
@jv: So you are making claims you can’t justify yet again. We’ve seen your bias so many many times. Boy who cried wolf indeed.
So you are making claims you can’t justify yet again.
I don't need to justify them. They are facts.
@jv: I don’t think you understand how facts work. If you can’t provide proof then it is just unsubstantiated opinion.
@try2bhelpful: No, it is a fact that many government services are outsourced. Many of the outsourced companies run their backend operations in other countries.
@jv: Do you have proof that most of the backend operations with the Victorian government have been outsourced to India? This is your original assertion. So provide some proof.
@banana365: The way our cost of living is going, pretty soon the Indians are going to be setting up their call centres in Australia.
At least if there aren't enough citizens & PRs to man the phones, we do have the lion's share of immigrants who could pick up the slack.
Ironic if they were immigrants from India though.
Operations are now down by an outsourced private consortium…
Is there really a cost of living crisis?
Valid question. If you could mine and flog the whinging about it, you'd be rich enough to fix it overnight. My experience is that the richest mouths are moaning the loudest.
Classic>The other day Sussan Ley was saying how she was just like other Aussie battlers, sitting around the table, worried about how to make ends meet, FFS. Poor Sussan.
Those most affected just get on with it, or go without. Not the latte / chardy, set.
you mean the same person who has muplte investment properties?
Yeah, that poor bugger. I'm thinking of crowd funding for her and the potato she replaced. Hard done by after all that dedication to the nation.
Yes. The same lady who billed taxpayers for flights and car rental to inspect investment properties
@Dollar General: And she has her own plane and pilots license.
St. jv would be outraged, being the political justice campaigner of the century.
Is there really a cost of living crisis?
Can't be.
Nobody's air dropped any food packages here yet, we've got meds & vaccines to fight the flu and no Indians offshoring their call centres here yet either.
But the real proof is that Bob Geldof hasn't organised a Live Aid concert or a collection centre for the donation of vanity plates to auction off on eBay.
Don’t have custom plates then champ.
The 'cost of living crisis' argument sorta falls apart when you're complaining about vanity plates, no?
The state of Victoria cost of existing crisis trumps your cost of living crisis!
I wonder if Carly Simon has vainity plates?
I had a dream,
There were cows in my coffee,cows in my coffee.
TIL that Baptist ministers could drink coffee and that Martin Luther King Jr was seeing cows.
If he mentioned that to anybody whilst he was still alive, what do you reckon they made of that?
I wonder if MLKJ gazed into his coffee cup the same way other people gaze at clouds to try and find rabbits and other shapes etc?
Don't think so.
He was too busy watching over his shoulder for guns,white sheets and the other lunatic racists who wanted him dead.
@Muppet Detector: You could apply that to the 4 democrat politician in the recent assassination case in America. killed by the guy dressed as a cop.In that case looking back caught them out.I mean it was a front on, front door,inside the home assassination. For a country that brags about freedom of speech and democracy they are seriously hypocritical failures on both fronts.
@Protractor: With the amount of muppets allowed access to guns in USA, I'm surprised that there aren't a lot more gun related killing over there.
The fact that USA still manages to survive is proof that Darwinism and natural selection are myths.
@Muppet Detector: Oh I think the death toll is enormous. It's just so normal now, no-one cares and the local media don't bother as much. If you listen to the NRA all shooters have mental health issues. So they are happy to allow loonies to have an arsenal, but also to refuse pre-purchase mental health checks. More hypocrisy .The NRA are the Israel of America.Anyway given the state of American society, what sort of bizarre mental health check could possibly differentiate the sane from the insane. Their country rewards the lunatics with presidencies.
@Muppet Detector: The issues are accelerating over there. Imagine a civil war where the population has access to assault rifles, machine guns, rocket launchers, drones etc. Canada and Mexico will need to build the walls to keep the American’s contained.
She probably thinks your post is about her
Maybe she was tipping cows instead of shaking her fist at clouds.
Nicely played.
How about a petition to ban vanity plates?
How about a petition to allow longer vanity plates.
Been playing with the name generator for hours now and I still can't make "Muppet Detector" fit.
(And I'm pretty sure that shortening it to MD would be illegal for me).
I did notice there is an option to include Marvin the Martian on one though.
Marvin gets props, but Batman gets a hard pass?
Who comes up with this stuff????
As someone with custom plates on a car, this seems entirely reasonable.
This is such a pathetic post. Custom plates are a luxury and can have whatever costs associated with them. It's pathetic of you to frame it a cost of living issue as it detracts from the actual policies that concern it.
I'd like personal plates, but I also like my kids to have food. That's a cost-of-living choice.
Food, Clothing, Shelter, Custom Plates.
The basic needs for human survival.
Use custom plates for bartering. Let them be the new bitcoin.
It's not like we could use them as firewood to heat our tears or warm our toes.
While custom plates are clearly a luxury that isn't a necessity, the argument for this cost vs the issue of new plates is pretty valid…. although in the scheme of things it's hardly a huge cost unless you're moving from car to car every other week.
This comment has me:
"In most cases, VicRoads instructs owners to simply transfer their existing plates to the new vehicle and to destroy the standard plates being replaced."
In NSW I've had to physically turn up on the old RTA and present two sets of plates when even swapping between two of my own vehicles.
What? I've only had to do it once, but isn't the deal you have to turn in the old plates (or I suppose retain ownership of them?)
In VIC I've physically turned up to the VicRoads office and swapped things in the carpark…
To be fair, all my examples are from >10 years ago so I could be out of the loop on these things.
You are supposed to return the Vic roads plates.
The only case when you should be told to destroy them is if you're cancelling a reg online and then you can destroy them but you're supposed to supply photographic evidence of this as part of the cancellation process online.
This is a known cost for custom plates. If you can't afford it, you should consider not having custom plates.
This is why in Victoria we are being totally screwed by our government. Everyone focuses on the wrong thing . The reason every government department rips us all off is we don't stand together and support our fellow citizens. Reading these comments above shows the government has won and will continue enslaving us all with outrageous and unjustified fees, levies and taxes. Its the old "divide and conquer" .
1st world problems.