Law re displaying no. plates in qld

[groulder]

Do you have to display your plates on the front of a car in QLD? I swear I heard a few years ago the front was optional, which would suit me because I don't want to display them on the front. I suspect by now though it's become mandatory.

[superfly]

It's been law for a looooong time to have a front number plate. In the 80's I was driving without a front number plate and was warned about it but not fined.

Motorbikes don't need a front number plate.

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by superfly

It's been law for a looooong time to have a front number plate. In the 80's I was driving without a front number plate and was warned about it but not fined.

Motorbikes don't need a front number plate.

Here in Vic they are making it compulsory for front plates on motorbikes.

[superfly]

Originally Posted by trublu

Here in Vic they are making it compulsory for front plates on motorbikes.

Good idea! Will stop them from beating head-on facing speed cameras.

[lilmattie]

I heard that QT is moving away from stickers over the next year.

[damo6]

Correct, 1st october this year stickers no more. Got a pamphlet with my rego renewal.

[Alan D Segal]

Rego sticker =/= front numberplate.

[nstg8a]

Originally Posted by trublu

Here in Vic they are making it compulsory for front plates on motorbikes.

Where are they gonna stick it?

[EA2BA]

Got VIC rego renewal the other day no more sticker required

[66GT]

Another question in relation to QLD rego plates is I understand that the slimline plates were only to be fitted to the front of a vehicle. I've spoken to several people who have deliberately fitted them high up under the tray of utes stating that they are therefore harder for cameras to pick up & be accurately identified.

[cheap]

In Qld your car must have a front number plate. Slimline is Ok on front of vehicle but not on rear.

ALL number plates must be in clear view, go to the TMR website and check for an explanation of what clear view means.

Also as we know there seems to a crackdown on all sort of minor traffic offences, Having a mangled/damaged number plate could incur a $385 fine. One of my clients was warned last week. To replace the plates with off the shelf plates is $25 (or there about) to replace with the same numbers is $80 (or there about). I really have to wonder at the mentality of some people to deliberately obscure number plates, no doubt they will go running to the Courier Mail when they're pinged.

[nstg8a]

According to ppq the laws was changed in 2005 to allow slimline plates to be fitted to the rear.

[cheap]

Stand corrected Slimline is OK on rear. Visibility still applies.

[Matty4]

Originally Posted by superfly

Good idea! Will stop them from beating head-on facing speed cameras.

I haven't seen a head on facing camera here in Vic for well over 10 years.
I don't think they set them up that way anymore.

[nstg8a]

So where would they put a front plate on this?



I can't think of any market in the world where front plates on bikes are mandatory.

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by Matty4

I haven't seen a head on facing camera here in Vic for well over 10 years.
I don't think they set them up that way anymore.

When traveling toll roads have a good look, there is cameras facing you head on

[jpd80]

And more often than not, a copper with a speed camera..

A lot more police bikes in Queensland recently, I think miscreant riders are going to be in for a rude shock..

Sit a few speed cameras permanently in 80 kph work zones along the Logam motorway and Qld's deficit would be paid off in a few months.

[Adamz Ghia]

Originally Posted by Matty4

I haven't seen a head on facing camera here in Vic for well over 10 years.
I don't think they set them up that way anymore.

The Princes Freeway Melbourne to Geelong has then facing both head on and backwards...

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by nstg8a

Where are they gonna stick it?

I'm hearing ya but the government won't care as it will be your responsibility & problem.
It will be about revenue raising....

[JG65TE]

front plates on bikes - they have tried and tried, wont happen.

[nstg8a]

Originally Posted by trublu

I'm hearing ya but the government won't care as it will be your responsibility & problem.
It will be about revenue raising....

Well no, it would be their problem because they would have to bring in new adr's to allow it, and design rules would have to somehow make the front plates pedestrian friendly.

[Alan D Segal]

Originally Posted by nstg8a

So where would they put a front plate on this?

On the Helmet Visor. Then they can book you for driving without due care and attention as well as speeding you criminal.

[castellan]

Originally Posted by nstg8a

Well no, it would be their problem because they would have to bring in new adr's to allow it, and design rules would have to somehow make the front plates pedestrian friendly.

Pedestrian frendly and the rider frendly, a mate died because of the number plate. it's like a raserblade.

How about put it on your helmet front and back.
Or a micro chip in your body so you know who it is. haha

[2011G6E]

Yep...gotta have a front plate, and it's up to YOU to ensure that the front and rear plates are visible from the sides as well...I think it's a 45 degree angle to the sides. I know there was a bit of a stink a few years ago as some people were getting booked and warnings about Nissan Patrols that have the factory spare tyre fitted on the rear door, with the plate to one side. It's hard to see from one side (the right?), and when people pointed out that's where they were fitted from the factory, they were told "the factory got it wrong". That died down though.


Front plates on bikes...?

Originally Posted by superfly

Good idea! Will stop them from beating head-on facing speed cameras.

Good idea...until the first traffic accident where the rider or a pedestrian gets sliced up nicely by it. There's a reason they used to call them "cheese slicers" in the old days when bikes had them fitted to the front mudguard...

Stuff 'em...I wouldn't fit a front plate to my bike. I'm not drilling holes and fabricating mounts to try and fit a plate to my GSX1400, and I'm really not messing around with my valuable and rare 1974 Kawasaki 750 two stroke triple...

[xxx000]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Yep...gotta have a front plate, and it's up to YOU to ensure that the front and rear plates are visible from the sides as well...I think it's a 45 degree angle to the sides. I know there was a bit of a stink a few years ago as some people were getting booked and warnings about Nissan Patrols that have the factory spare tyre fitted on the rear door, with the plate to one side. It's hard to see from one side (the right?), and when people pointed out that's where they were fitted from the factory, they were told "the factory got it wrong". That died down though.


Front plates on bikes...?

Good idea...until the first traffic accident where the rider or a pedestrian gets sliced up nicely by it. There's a reason they used to call them "cheese slicers" in the old days when bikes had them fitted to the front mudguard...

Stuff 'em...I wouldn't fit a front plate to my bike. I'm not drilling holes and fabricating mounts to try and fit a plate to my GSX1400, and I'm really not messing around with my valuable and rare 1974 Kawasaki 750 two stroke triple...

your 74 triple would of been fitted with a front plate from new

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by xxx000

your 74 triple would of been fitted with a front plate from new

Nope, it wasn't. Earlier, overseas Kawasaki models had a front plate...they were all slightly different in minor ways (reflector placement, front plate, lights, etc) from country to country. The Australian and Japanese models from the mid-seventies on had a solid front guard with no holes. I had an older late sixties Suzuki that had blanked off holes in the front guard where the plate would have been in countries that required it, but then again I have a '65 Vespa that only has a rear plate and nowhere to mount a front plate. It would be too hard and too much of a sweeping statement to say that every bike would have to have a front plate.
On modern bikes the problem is that there has never been a facility to fit them (or even sometimes with modern styled sports bikes, as in that picture above, no possible way you could fit one anyway), and with old bikes, even rather old ones like my '65 Vespa, the country they were from didn't require a front plate at the time they were built, even if other countries (for example, England) did.

Cars are different of course. The only ones that have limited fittings for a front plate are exotics from countries where a front plate is optional.

[aussie muscle]

Originally Posted by nstg8a

So where would they put a front plate on this?.

you have to butcher it, like if you had a Pontiac Firebird.

[nstg8a]

The only way to do front plates on bikes would be to allow the use of stickers instead of plates, and even then placement would be all over the place, and size would an issue.
They would also be more side facing than front facing, you would need one each side.

[blackf6]

I have been done for obscured front number plate. It was on a nudge bar and not at the correct angle. And a defaced rear number plate. I accidentally wiped the plate with thinners to get over spray off. Needless to say it wiped the paint off the plate. I painted it back on. $700 bucks later all good. Forgot to say: The cops where set up outside my old work place conducting random breatho's and licence checks. Got dared by a mate to do a burnout. No problems I thought. Work is private property. Was great till I drove out the gate and they wen't over the car with a fine tooth comb, and I was being a smartass.

[nstg8a]

I used to have a set of those number plate covers that make it impossible to read from any angle other than directly in front of them, thought I was so smart until I got the massive ticket from the cop lol
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