What Mike is saying is quite reasonable Jack. It is not hysteria it is genuine concern at what is happening all around us and his warning does not deserve your aggressive response. The bureaucracy is getting ever more stifling and Vicroads is a bureaucracy as focused on regulation as it may be on taxation. Otherwise they would not bother regulating and just put their charges up.
You ridicule the idea that tyres would or could ever be lifed but this idea has been seriously discussed and legislation formulated if not adopted in the UK and Europe and what happens there is often followed up here. This was reported on in the MVT journal Windscreen some years ago.Richard Farrant would no doubt know more about it.
'The price of freedom is eternal vigilance' as the Americans say and the dogs are barking. You want facts Jack? The fact is that we are vastly more regulated than we were even twenty years ago and the process is not going to stop of its own accord so don't be so dismissive of the warning.
David
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Hell no! I'm not that old!
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