Richard my son, does some maintenance for a local bloke with a trucking company, mainly on semis, tractors, forklifts & an excavator. He also dose the occasional day delivering hay back loaded from north Queensland. He got a call for urgent help the other day.

Apparently a driver on a trip to Victoria was at a truck inspection stop near Penrith, & had been told his covid log was over the limit or something for NSW. He was legal in Victoria, & Queensland, but not in NSW. He could not move the truck, & the company was given 48 hours to move it, or suffer impoundment. The driver was not allowed to drive anything in NSW until his log book status changed, 14 days I believe.

Richard got the urgent call. Would he pick up a driver from near by, drive him to the truck, & bring the original driver back. Although he would be driving his own car, it would have to be a logbook trip, with all the rigmarole.

Richard was happy to help out, but what stupidity. Legal in QLD & Vic, but not NSW. The original driver could not drive himself home, as it would be considered a commercial trip, all because he had driven through a part of Sydney, even without stopping.

God some bureaucrats need a swift kick where the sun doesn't shine.

Mein Fuhrer Hasbeen,

This is a great story.

Have you thought about making a movie out of it?

Hasbeen,
Insanity reigns supreme & oxygen thieves like Mr Opinion are required by Law to perpetuate it via compulsory voting !
That's why we need a National Service to rid us of such stupidity !

Hasbeen,

It sure is crazy. A permit is now needed to enter Victoria. Seems as though we are going back to separate colonies. The federal government might as will disband.

A couple SA truckies obtained permits to drive through Victoria, but there was nobody at the border to check them. They continued on their journey to NSW unmolested by Dan's political police.

I don't know what Mr. Opinion is doing with the oxygen he is stealing; it's not getting to his brain.

individual,

National service in an Asianized Australia? You propose to train Australians to fight against their ancestral homelands?

Are you joking or just plain you stupid?

I don't think Chinese Australians would be happy knowing that they are being trained to fight against their ancestral homeland China.

How would you think Bogan Australians would feel if they were told they were being trained to fight against their ancestral homeland the UK?

I don't think any political party will introduce conscription in Australia now that it is an Asian nation-state.

You're living in the past individual. National service is a Bogan Australian relic - just like you!

"had been told his covid log was over the limit"

What the hell's a 'covid log'? More bureaucratic make-work schemes? Or perhaps someone who stays at home, lounging about watching 'Days of our Lives' while on job-keeper.

"The federal government might as will disband."
Oh. So some good might come from the viral lockdowns after all.

A coupla years back I was in court doing battle with the local council over a dog registration. While waiting for my case there were a procession of trucking companies being prosecuted for various breaches. One was a bus driver whose bus was found to be overweight on some wheels. That is, the bus overall wasn't over-weight, just that some wheels were carrying an over-weight load. The reason, the bus company explained, was that the passengers were mostly 'large' (ie fat) retirees and they'd all moved to one side to witness the bus weighing. Too bad, says the judge. The bus driver pointed out that had he instructed the fat passengers to redistribute their weight he'd have been in breach of discrimination laws. That's a different court, says the judge, so not my concern.

Fine - $3000 plus costs. Everyone recognised the injustice of it all, except the court.