3 year license

[acex1138]

Its probably been looked at and made impossible, but im stuck with a 3 year p plate license in SA, flaming aside for asking, is there anyway to actually convert it interstate or anything?

Reason why im asking, I asked a lawyer about it who pretty much said if i was to become an american citizen (yes i know stupidly too far to go), go apply for a drivers license there, in atleast 10 states its a case of pay money have a full license issued, then come back here and convert it over, it converts to a full license.

Now im guessing they have setup blocks here so i cant convert my license to interstate to go back on to p2's, or cancel it and be issued with a converted international license?

[minux]

Ring Transport SA, they might tell you

[acex1138]

they are who i have asked, they claim there is no way around it, that if i moved to sydney the 3 month must convert to new states license would not be allowed as i am on a 3 year SA license.

The lawyer i have spoken to reckons there are tons of loopholes on this, just need to find someone who would know more about them, unfortunately I see him at a checkout (i work at woolworths) so I was hoping someone would know some more solid info

[TVR-190]

Cops dont fall for that stuff easily, i listen to to them on the scanners and a few times ive heard them catch on to people who have done similar things (try to avoid restrictions etc by probiding false details saying they live in another state)

Usually doesnt work to well

[acex1138]

not looking at frauding, looking for away around sa's stupid license system. I actually beat my charges, and under our state laws you still have to be punished even if you win your case, so I still even have to do the drivers intervention course for a thing last year, fun part is they claim it cannot have the date changed, the costs are concrete etc.

They kept filling classes im still waiting to do mine, today they realised how much money i made so they waved the concrete admin fee.

So yeah, theres usually legitimate ways around stupid stuff, I never lost my license i actually got to keep it, had the judge tell me I was good to go i just have 1 dem point left for 6 months then i get my points back. Straight after had the dmv tell me noooooos you go back a step, have the license issued for 3 years cant get p2's for 2.5 years.

So yeah been living with it for a while, but just been getting annoyed with being picked on by sapol (yet strangely if im south of the city the police are nice and dont seem to care, so i guess its just metro cops who hate us so far). im not tryna turn this into a whining thread. up until i had my gf id been tryna get outta sa my whole life, would have left many times this year but the sitation with my license kept me here up until i won the court case back in april.

From what the lawyers here have told me (unless i pay them more to find a way) they reckon there are a few states where people have gone to live, been told by transport sa their license was unconvertable and they had to serve out the 3 years, say one of hte examples went interstate mining for 6 months, had transport sa say they cannot convert their license over, then with their 3 months up had that state tell them screw sa, you have to convert here and been converted over to p2's on their system.

So yeah... its like the lawyer said look for a legal method to get around it. Fun part was I was meant to go onto my full license a month after the case, so you can imagine how stoked i was to win the case and then have the dmv go 'computer says no' and put me on p1's for 3 years.

[Nevyn]

Sth Aus sucks I reckon....I though NSW was bad....bloody glad I'm in Vic...and over 40...but I still drive a VN, but don't get picked on by the cops at least....me son drives a VL and wil have a bad neck soon looking out for the coppers......lol

[Ripcell]

why do you need a full license so soon? so you can drive a high powered car and write yourself off already?

[one_and_only2004]

why do you need a full license so soon? so you can drive a high powered car and write yourself off already?

Maybe you could give him lessons, oh merciful driving god....

I'd be hitting up QLD, they do some awful dodgy stuff up there with licenses.

[Ripcell]

Maybe you could give him lessons, oh merciful driving god....

I'd be hitting up QLD, they do some awful dodgy stuff up there with licenses.

your point?

[acex1138]

well, quite a few employers wont touch you if your on p plates (ive had some employers even tell me this) so its been limiting my employment, also they are trying to enforce the new laws here which to quote the local cop who's tryna get them passed "will force hoons like me to sell my car".

Which I have to explain, as you've seen in some other posts, in northeast adel we have several cops who arent hte most friendliest, and as stated above with the guys kid that drives a VL, we do sometimes get picked on, i have even asked a police officer to leave my place of work after he came in and accused me of hooning in my volvo (a month after i stopped driving it), so some of them are really arrogant, even got tailed by one wednesday. The laws they have been telling us about here are to prevent p platers having 'perfomance' cars, interstate it means anything that ends in 8 or turbo.

A few local mp's and cops have been visiting schools around here telling them they want to ban p platers driving anything above a 4 cylander unless its deisel which is just stupid, and that existing p platers will not be allowed to drive or register anything above. So im hoping to hell that never passes. When i asked the local who shops at my work what would happen if we were already driving a V6 and on p plates and was told, would have to sell it for a 4cylander.

So yeah you got my reason, employment and safety, back when iw as in the volvo I got pulled over a lot, in the VR its a lot better but still i'd prefer to have them off my back, wish they would judge on driving ability not on the symbol on your car.

My gf can even attest to this, after we got tailed wednesday, we were heading up northeast road where a (might even be on these forums) orange tricked out holden ute sped past us doing well in excess of 100 right past another oncoming cop car. Now yeah you can raise the argument the cop might not have thought they could catch them having to drive over a medium strip to give pursuit, but $10 says if the ute had a p plate up, the cop would have called reinforcements on them.

[cr31]

unfortunately I see him at a checkout (i work at woolworths) so I was hoping someone would know some more solid info

Save up $450 and go see the lawyer at his office...

[Goon]

The laws the law, theres no much u can do sunshine....