DRIVE A2B March 2020
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From our Editor<br />
Touting Fines<br />
It's great to see that the NSW Point to Point<br />
Transport Commissioner is on the ball and is<br />
catching and fining those touting at Sydney<br />
Airport. They prosecuted 5 offenders last<br />
month. But what about Melbourne Airport<br />
touters?<br />
Despite the fact that it became law in 2019 that<br />
touting is illegal in Victoria, to date, no-one has<br />
been fined. There are just as many operators<br />
touting for the transportation of passengers in<br />
the arrival areas at Melbourne Airport, as there<br />
were before the new regulations were put in<br />
place.<br />
How can this be? Commercial Passenger<br />
Vehicles Victoria (CPVV) is tasked with<br />
enforcing the legislation regarding the<br />
Commercial Passenger Vehicle Industry, so<br />
why isn't it enforcing?<br />
Road Worthy Certificates<br />
In June 2019 edition of <strong>DRIVE</strong> <strong>A2B</strong> we reported<br />
on the non-professional vehicle inspection<br />
undertaken by Red Book Inspections on a<br />
prospective commercial passenger vehicle,<br />
and how its inspectors missed faulty brakes<br />
and worn windscreen wipers. This was<br />
reported to the Victorian regulator, CPVV,<br />
but it doesn't appear to have done anything<br />
about this. It hasn't reprimanded Red Book<br />
and it still allows RedBook to perform safety<br />
inspections on new and ongoing commercial<br />
passenger vehicles.<br />
We have been advised that CPVV thinks<br />
that RedBook is great because RedBook<br />
provides information about the inspections<br />
electronically to CPVV.<br />
Well, we also know that all Road Worthy<br />
Certificate inspections undertaken by a<br />
6 <strong>DRIVE</strong> <strong>A2B</strong> magazine · <strong>March</strong> <strong>2020</strong>
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