[commodorenutt]

I know several HWP cops (a couple with 10-20 years in the job) and they hardly ever get holidays at Christmas or on long weekends - they roster as many as possible on for the double points periods.

I've also been told that there's a government direction with the NPR camera cars that they have to spend a certain period of their shift stationary, checking plates, until certain revenue targets are met (probably to pay off the cost of the camera system).

I personally have no issue with NPR cars - I think it's a good thing, as I have been the victim of an unreg'd/uninsured driver at fault in a prang, and getting the blatant abusers off the road is fantastic. I don't agree with the zero tolerance shown to some people though, who deserved a break - like the pensioner in the recent thread who paid his greenslip & pink slip, but didn't get the RMS renewal done (pensioners don't pay the RMS component of rego on the first car in their name).


Removing the rego labels is a bigger issue - one rep I know was leaving Dubbo on a Friday arvo, and got pulled over. Unreg'd car - here's your fines, lock it up & see ya' later, long walk back to Newcastle. Fleet company forgot to renew his rego. He was driving a fully maintained company car - they were supposed to do everything - he didn't even have a copy of the rego papers.
(And if you're wondering, he ended up getting on a train to Sydney, and a cab ride to Newy, then told the fleet co in no uncertain terms that they could pick the ^% thing up on a tilt tray and deliver it to his house!)

At least when we had labels you knew it had been done (I had to chase my work's fleet company nearly every year to get mine on time) He took it to court, and the magistrate ruled it was his responsibility to check the rego. He had to cop the fines.

Surely that cop could have listened to his story - checked the facts on the computer - that it was a fleet car, and simply made him lock it up & leave it there until the rego was paid.