GRIPES

[facthunter]

I think you have to be on the Pension (old age) to get that so it's effectively Means tested. Makes it so you can't wait to Be near destitute doesn't it?  So you qualify for all these good things. Nev

[willedoo]

1 hour ago, Marty_d said:

You're right - I must have forgotten. $755.

Is the bike over 30 years old? I think that's a requirement for SI.

I thought people over 60 got a discount on rego too. Don't want to make any assumptions but I'm reasonably confident you're in that bucket...

 

 

Marty, I thought in Tasmania there's no pension discount but pensioners can have a second vehicle rego free. That was a few years ago I was told that and it might not be right. If it is, it would only be the registration component free, not the insurance and any other charges.

[willedoo]

I just looked it up. Tasmania does have a pension or eligible concession card holder discount for one vehicle only, $60 for a car or $55 for a bike and an insurance discount as well. I don't know whether they class an over 60 senior's card as eligible. In Queensland a senior's card is elegible, a 50% discount on the registration component which is about $140 p.a. saved.

https://www.concessions.tas.gov.au/concessions/vehicles

Edited 4 hours ago by willedoo

[red750]

Not sure if I mentioned this, but I renew my car registration for 3 months at a time. The renewal reminder received in December said $116.34 for 3 months. The one received a week or so ago said $116.34 for 1 month. My daughter had the same occur.

 

She rang VicRoads today and they said they were aware of the error in their system, but had not issued amended reminders.

[willedoo]

Suckerbook really knows how to annoy people. Went to log in tonight and they now have a Google security thing going. First you have to check a box to tell a robot that you're not a robot. Then you have to do a series of those things where you click on all the squares with pedestrian crossings or cars or motorbikes. I had to do about four or five of them.

[red750]

Yes, and those images you have to check are so damned small on a laptop, it's almost impossible to see them.

[willedoo]

The verification is a bit hit and miss in my case. I'm logged in all the time on my phone so no problems there. With the laptop, I have a dynamic IP with my server so get a different IP every time I boot up and FB thinks it's a login from a different device. Also the IP geolocation can be 800klm away from where I actually am, so they think someone in Townsville is trying to log into my account. Usually they just ask to check notifications on the other device (phone) so I just pick it up, check notifications and click the verification that it's me. As soon as that's done the FB page on the laptop automatically loads. That method is nice and simple, but this clicking on pedestrian crossings bs really sucks. Even if you get it right the first time it's a much slower verification method.

[Jerry_Atrick]

7 hours ago, onetrack said:

Yes, you are covered for personal injury, loss of earnings, and death in a motorcycle crash with your rego, because there's an MAIB (Motor Accidents Insurance Board) insurance premium included in the rego cost.

Then that probably explains why it is more than a car.. Even a minor bingle on a bike is going to have a lot more chance of needing a payout/rehab than a car. 

 

I pay £26 for my son's road tax; His insurance though, is £1700/year. Not much damage a 125cc bike can do compared to cars to others.. Of course they can kill and write off another car, but the probability of that happening is much lower than a car doing it. But, he is covered and he is more likely to do majkor damage to himself than if he was in a car. 

 

My road tax is £121 (which is currently more than a heavy BEV. which is currently zero but going up to an average of about £200 - my motorcycle is still disproprtionately more than the BEV for the damage to the roads). However, the road tax here goes to consolidated revenue.. not ear marked for roads and other motoring facilities. My insurance was unbelievably only £450-ish... And I am more likely to do much more damage to others with my bike than my son. However, I guess at my age, I am a lot less likely to do too much damage to myself. I am a far more placid rider than I was 10 yeasrs ago. My filtering when in London is no where near as marginal as it was.